DAILY WATCH: Greubel Forsey Art Piece Two

Too often the mechanical wristwatch is solely thought of as a tool to tell time when it is actually a piece of art and engineering. Greubel Forsey attempts to make this clear with its Art Piece Two timepiece. In the Art Piece Two-Edition Two, the double tourbillon 30º appears like a piece of performance art, constantly rotating and dancing within its space. Telling time is secondary to the design and appearance of the watch. In order to see what time it is, a pusher on the bezel must be pressed to activate a bistable mechanism that will display the hours and minutes. Unlike other timepieces, a large section of the dial is taken up by the power reserve indicator. This is in an attempt to alter what the brand calls “our relationship with temporality,” and to show that it is not the current time we wish to understand, but the amount of time we have left.

Close up of the Greubel Forsey Art Piece Two
Close up of the Greubel Forsey Art Piece Two

 

The Greubel Forsey Art Piece Two
The Greubel Forsey Art Piece Two