Description
Artya Liquid dial, a one-off piece manufactured in 2011.
Considered one of the most unique luxury watch brands of all time, ArtyA does not fit into any existing category of traditional watchmaking but creates its own boundaries with rare, limited edition designs exclusive to the courageous. Crafted in central Geneva, Switzerland, ArtyA watches are designed by avant-garde creator Yvan Arpa who after making his own significant contribution to the luxury watch industry, launched his own brand in 2010 under the ArtyA name. Remaining entirely independent, ArtyA watches are one of only a few Swiss brands to have its own manufacture with a selection of in-house tourbillons, minute repeater and perpetual calendar movements.
They are perhaps best known for the lightening strike watches where the cases are shaped using ‘lightening” bolts from a Tesla coil striking the case to melt and mould the metal.
This model has a 47mm 316l steel case with a black DLC treatment. It has an engraved and screwed back case and triple anti-reflective treatment on the sapphire crystal. The hand made dial is actually acrylic paint between two pieces of glass. The paint stayed liquid for a length of time during which time it would spread around according to the movements of the watch, eventually setting in a totally unique pattern. The watch is powered by the ArtyA A82 Automatic movement which is an in-house modified ETA showing hours, minutes, and seconds, and with a 50 hour power reserve. The watch comes on a high quality Ballistic Nylon strap.
Whilst the watch measures 47mm, it has short, angled-down lugs and is fairly thin, so actually wears a bit smaller on the wrist than the dimensions might suggest.
As stated this is a unique piece. Artyahad planned to make more but only ended up making this one, which was originally gifted to a personal friend of Yvan Arpa, who was involved in the design, and specified the silver “Lightening Bolt” handset fitted to the watch, over the planned hand-set as featured in the Artya Art book photographs of the watch.
The watch is in excellent unmarked condition and comes with everything from new in terms of box/papers, plus there is some provenance from Yvan’s friend, the original owner.
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