Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. The New Ressence Type 9 x The Armoury “Scattering Sun”
A collaboration with menswear retailer The Armoury yields a surprisingly dapper T9 ARM with a salmon-coloured dial and a fluted bezel.
Ressence is renowned for its dynamic, no-hand display of the time. Animated by the brand’s patented Orbital Convex System (ROCS), time circles around the dial like planets orbiting the Sun. Ressence’s Type 9, its most compact, spartan, and accessibly priced watch, was introduced in 2024. Not only was it the smallest model in the brand’s lineup, but it was also the first to feature a minutes track on a fixed external bezel. In a somewhat surprising but accomplished move, Ressence has teamed up with menswear retailer The Armoury to present a new, more classical sartorial-inspired edition, with a completely unexpected fluted bezel…
The new Ressence Type 9 ARM is a collaboration with Hong Kong and New York menswear retailer The Armoury. Founded in 2010 by Mark Cho and Alan See, The Armoury is a bastion of classic, artisanal tailoring for dapper gentlemen. According to Mark Cho, the partnership was born from his desire for a watch “that could live with a suit. Something smaller, more restrained, with details that echo fine clothing”.
Like many of the brand’s watches, the smooth, 39mm pebble-like case is crafted from grade 5 titanium and is wonderfully lightweight, weighing just 39 grams. Given that the case is only resistant to depths of 10 metres (splash-resistant), this is not a watch you want to be wearing in the vicinity of a swimming pool.
The appealing domed contours of the watch, with no protrusions, are now framed by a fluted and polished fixed titanium bezel, replacing the more technical track of standard editions. The wide notches on the bezel correspond to the minutes and play with the light, giving the watch an entirely different, more sophisticated character. However, in the name of legibility, the minutes track features engraved 5-minute markers and an inverted triangle at noon, filled with green Super-LumiNova, which matches the colour of the pointer hands for the minutes and hours.
Another surprise is the salmon dial, a colour often associated with traditional watchmaking. Treated with a matte sandblasted finish, the layout is similar to a regulator dial with minutes on the periphery and the hours in a smaller sub-dial. Setting time in motion, the main domed dial rotates once per hour so that the engraved pointer hand in the centre aligns with the minutes track. The smaller disc for the hours, with a brushed copper-coloured chapter ring, is also set in motion and performs one revolution every twelve hours, following the minutes around the dial in a never-ending dance. Bereft of numerals, the hours ring features the signature Ressence hand to indicate noon, along with white baton hour markers interspersed with a series of shorter, decorative white markers.
The ROCS 9 module is powered by the minute axle of a customised automatic movement based on the ETA 2892/2, offering a 36-hour power reserve. As a crownless model, winding and setting the time is performed on the caseback.
The watch is paired with a chocolate suede strap with a titanium ardillon buckle. Launching today, the Ressence Type 9 ARM is a limited edition of 20 pieces retailing for USD 19,000 / HKD 148,200 (excl. tax) available exclusively through The Armoury’s boutiques in New York and Hong Kong and online at thearmoury.com.
