B03 Hands

The hands are curved rather than stamped, as is customary in nearly all watches.

A mastery of jewelry-making rather than a mass-produced product. Their shaping, finishing, and even the application of luminous material are significantly more complex than traditional methods allow.

 

Each hand is tapered with a longitudinal ridge, brushed finish to enhance readability, while the tips, designed to repeat a component of the Bogneri Logo, are black polished for hours and with luminous for minutes.

 

The minute hand has a slit that allows it to overlap with the luminous of the hour hand at 12, allowing a precise reading in the dark when both hands actually overlap.   

 

The interplay between the hands is a magical transition thorough the day, their relationship changes continuously when looked at an angle; sometime they look  rectilinear and flat, sometime curved, other time almost warped.  When looked at aligning the point of sign with the axis of the pinion, they look flat, the same way that the watch assumes a more ordinary and predictable configuration, but as the watch is slightly rotated, the hands, together with the other elements of the case assume a surrealist attitude, mastering the tension between perception and reality.

 

The minute hand has a slit that allows it to overlap with the luminous of the hour hand at 12, allowing a precise reading in the dark when both hands actually overlap.   

 

Bent hands symbolize the fluidity, subjectivity, and relativity of time. They challenge the conventional, rigid understanding of time as a fixed, linear measure, suggesting instead that it is a malleable, human-perceived experience.