Ressence TYPE 9 IKE - Past and future, layered by hand.

During our trips to Japan for the making of the TYPE 9 IKE, we had the opportunity to meet and witness Ikeda-San and his team at work. Ikeda-san works with urushi lacquer and raden (mother-of-pearl),applying traditional Japanese techniques that date back centuries. His practice is based in Kanazawa, where he's developed a sci-fi interpretation of these ancient methods. For this watch, he faced a particular challenge: curving ultra-thin mother-of-pearl onto our convex orbital display. "What was very difficult was attaching raden to a curved surface," Ikeda-san explains. "Raden is basically flat, and it breaks easily, like eggshell. So we soaked it and bent it gradually on rubber sheets, little by little, so that it would follow the curvature." The raden was then placed by hand with extreme precision on each dial. The result sits on black DLC-coated titanium. As our ROCS system rotates the discs beneath, the luminescent composition shifts under light. "When I discovered Ikeda's artwork, I was immediately attracted to its extremely futuristic style, which is simultaneously an ancient craft," says Benoît Mintiens, Ressence's founder. "The result gives you the feeling of viewing something from another galaxy - a code beamed back to us from the future." Discover the TYPE 9 IKE on our website : https://ressencewatches.com/pages/type-9-ikeda TYPE 9 IKE -手工芸により綴られた未来と過去のハーモニー TYPE 9 IKEの製作のために日本を訪れた際、池田氏と彼のチームにお会いし、彼らの仕事ぶりを目の当たりにする機会に恵まれました。池田氏は、漆と螺鈿という、何世紀も前から伝わる日本の伝統技法を用いてい