Like I said earlier, Apple’s face isn’t a reinterpretation of a watch category like Chronograph or California. Nevertheless, we can now see that the design does come from historical precedent. Arun Venkatesan Die diversen deutschen Referenzen hatte ich nicht erwartet.

Like the Vacheron Constantin and Montblanc watches I mentioned before, the map shows the dark and light areas of the world. Unlike those mechanical watches which use a simplified straight line, this map shows the exact curved line dividing the lit and dark sides of the earth. You may have also noticed that the mapweiterlesen

I already had a tremendous amount of respect for the team that made the Apple Watch. Its industrial and interface design respect centuries of watchmaking, all the while introducing something novel. As I researched and wrote this essay, my respect only increased. With the watch faces, Apple could have taken the easy way out byweiterlesen