Watches

It is a study in precision: every angle is measured, every gemstone is set to balance, and every second is accounted for. It is the Dodecagon, the first watch design of lifelong jeweller and goldsmith Moritz Schurmann.

Wearing the Dodecagon, centuries of Irish goldsmithing and Swiss horology come together on your wrist, where the finest Sellita SW300 skeleton movement is enframed by a twelve-sided case of titanium and 18 carat gold, studded with sapphires and diamonds. Nothing is left to chance with this striking, industrial design, nor is anything hidden away: the sapphire crystal presents the inner workings of the watch directly, so that the Dodecagon tells the time with precision, and shows it with clarity.

The Dodecagon’s design began twenty-five years ago, when Moritz crafted a band of two twelve-sided silver rings held a short distance apart by twelve gold bars. Today, this ring design, modified, becomes the display-case for the watch mechanism: with its open front and back, the Dodecagon allows its wearer to see time at work from every angle. Prior to his career as a goldsmith, Moritz trained as an engineer. In the Dodecagon, these two crafts and dispensations work together, where the sophistication and elegance of bespoke jewellery meets the economy and function of the machine.

We live today in a decimal world, a ‘base-10’ world. But the duodecimal, or ‘base- 12,’ system is favoured still by craftspeople – for its greater practicality, for its natural ease of calculation. And, of course, it lives on in many aspects of our everyday lives: the twelve houses of the Zodiac, the twelve hours of the day, and, for its owner, the twelve sides of the Dodecagon, where style is function, and function is style.