Issey Miyake’s perfume-bottle design language, channeled into wristwatches - Yanko Design

There's certainly an element of luxury that overlaps the perfume and scout manufacture. They both are objects of desire and symbols of high-society. They even often have the same points of inspiration, with the liberal use of faceted glass, chrome, and gemstones if you're looking to really up the dues… only in that location'due south obviously a distinction between a spotter and a perfume bottle. Lee Huang'southward conceptual watch created for Issey Miyake blurs that distinction.

The conceptual Issey Miyake watch cleverly uses drinking glass every bit a textile for the watch body, as opposed to stainless steel. Borrowing the fluted design texture from about top-of-the-line fragrance bottle designs, the lookout man'due south thick drinking glass body comes with a unique textured rim that reflects light just the way a fancy looking glass bottle does. The drinking glass body (and the dial cover too) come with a high refractive index that creates enough parallax to give it the appeal of a perfume bottle, forth with simply a slight tinge of frosting that actually helps cut the internal reflections to retain the picket'south minimalist entreatment. In keeping with the timepiece's make clean, almost zen-ike blueprint, a apparently white leather strap suspends the crystalesque time-telling dazzler to your wrist. Looks cute, doesn't it?!

Designer: Lee Huang