Monza clock | 2020-2021

Designers: Enrico Ferraris, Alessandro Rigotto, and Liudmyla Lebid, Meccaniche Orologi Milano srl., Lonate Pozzol (VA), Italy
Manufacturer: Meccaniche Orologi Milano srl., Lonate Pozzol (VA), Italy

Monza clock is audacious in its design, not simply because of its unconventional form, but because of the extremes it takes this form to.

Transgressive case shapes have rejected all limits that traditional manufacturing usually faces. Its extreme curves and acute angles have required new standards and techniques to obtain a complete, milled and finished case.

Designed, manufactured and assembled in M.O.M’s workshop, the core element of Monza, the movement, is set on the metal bushes welded to the hardened crystal glass plates that together represent an integral union. This technique gives the possibility to show the beauty of the skeleton mechanism. Monza runs on the hermetically closed ball bearings instead of the classical rubies, thus reducing the friction and guaranteeing better and smoother workflow, which also benefits from the brass gears being mirror polished and afterward Rhodium plated.

The significant lightness of the timepiece results from its chrome-looking solid wood case, elegantly covered by hand-sewn red leather outside and black Alcantara inside to absorb the beat's noise.