Lonate Pozzol (VA), Italy
Designed, manufactured, and assembled in M.O.M’s workshop, the Monza clock, is audacious in its design, not simply because of its unconventional form, but because of the extremes, it takes this form to.
Monza clock’s 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.
This design has been awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
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.
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.
Project: Monza Clock
Designers: Enrico Ferraris, Alessandro Rigotto, and Liudmyla Lebid
Manufacturer: Meccaniche Orologi Milano srl.
