Botta Design - Uno Watch

 

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Things become clearer if you reduce them to the most neccessary

This simple realization is the basic idea for the one-needle-watch UNO, with its amazingly simple display principle: UNO restricts itself to one needle - the hour hand. This moves just like the hour hand of a normal watch with more needles. It performs one whole rotation in 12 hours.

Through the reduced shape of the time display, the one-needle-watch mediates the crude time information at a glance. (e.g. near 3 A.M.). If you need a more specific time measurement, the UNO can be read on the 5th minute - Through rating of the needle position between 5-minute-bars definitily on exactly one minute. The srngth of the UNO lays usually in teh daily time measure: The overview like account of the day time. It offers the "time at a glance" whith displaying the day as analogue graphic.

The new needle of the UNO is not only more precise and optically more sane, also the mechanical characteristics are upgrated through new filigrane shapes.
Through the balance the mass of the fine needle will be balanced, through that the work will strained less. As positive side effect the life of the battery stays longer.

Details to Botta Design - Uno Watch

Warranty:
2 years except wear parts or with carelss handling

Awards:
2000 | Exhibit in the Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt am Main
1998 | Nomination for the Bundespreis Productdesign
1996 | Mono watch magazine Japan, "The watch of the year 1996", 3rd place
1996 | Award "Red dot for high design quality"
1996 | iF - product design award
1995 | Exhibit "Museum of Architecture and Design", Chicago
1995 | Good Design Award, Chicago
1994 | Design Plus Award

Honoured with: Design Plus

The Design Plus design award is assigned within the framework of the Ambiente international consumer goods trade fair in Frankfurt. Designaward Design Plus

Honoured with: Good Design Award

The Museum’s historic Good Design program originated in Chicago in 1950 and was organized by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., former curator of the Museum of Modern Art. Designaward Good Design Award

Honoured with: iF Design Award

Since its introduction in 1953, the If Design Award is a constant, well-known trademark when it comes to outstanding design. Designaward iF Design Award