The Ressence x Marc Newson Type 3 MN feels less like a watch and more like a fully realized design manifesto. Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens has spent 15 years reimagining what a mechanical wristwatch should feel like, and teaming with industrial design icon Marc Newson—the mind behind Ikepod, the Apple Watch, and some of the most influential objects of the last three decades—feels almost predestined. Both designers obsess over tactile purity, ergonomic form, and mechanical poetry stripped of unnecessary complication.
The Type 3 MN preserves the spirit of Ressence’s original Type 3 but refracts it through Newson’s unmistakable lens. The 45mm Grade 5 titanium case is a pebble-smooth, lug-less monobloc composed of two sealed chambers: one mechanical, one oil-filled. The upper chamber contains 4.15 ml of oil, creating the now-signature floating-ink illusion where the dial appears printed directly on the sapphire. At just 95 grams, it wears far smaller than its footprint suggests.
Inside, the ROCS 3.6 system replaces traditional hands with rotating convex discs coated in DLC and PVD on titanium. Newson’s palette—celadon green, black, grey, and subtle yellow accents—adds a refined vibrancy. The dial displays hours, minutes, seconds, date, day, and oil temperature in a seamless orbital choreography.
Magnetic coupling links the Ressence ROCS to a customized ETA 2824 base calibre, ensuring the optical and mechanical systems remain perfectly synchronized. The result is a watch that feels impossibly coherent—form, function, and engineering in total alignment. Limited to 80 pieces and priced at $57,000, the Type 3 MN is design history in motion.
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