Certainly, the Type 3 doesn't have the visual flamboyance of a MB&F, the bold high-tech design of an URWERK or the apparent complexity of an HYT. However, under this restrained attitude and this relative discretion hides a watch filled with oil and that does not use hands to display the time. ...
When it comes to unique displays of the time, you though you've already seen everything: wandering hours, chains, magnetic balls, liquid-filled capillary, rotating prisms... Then, in terms of complications and construction of the overall watch, you thought the same.Certainly, the Type 3 doesn’t have the visual flamboyance of a MB&F, the bold high-tech design of an URWERK or the apparent complexity of a HYT. However, underneath this restrained facade hides a watch filled with oil and which does not use hands to display the time.Sorry? How can a watch be filled with oil? The idea of filling the case of a watch with oil is not new, and not exclusive to Ressence – although admittedly this was never a popular feature… at least not until 2013, when Ressence introduced the Type 3, taking this idea to a whole new level.The eventual solution to this problem was to entirely fill the watch with a liquid (usually oil), including the movement and the area between the dial and the crystal – an approach that requires the watch to be hermetically sealed. This was not as problematic as it might sound as dive watches were already designed to be air-tight (a concept explored by Sinn and Bell & Ross).