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After the 2018 shows and exhibits in Basel, Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Zannetti gets ready for the summer by presenting a product collection which has the color blue as a common denominator. This is not a novelty: in fact, the color blue is represented in the brand’s catalogue since its first models of the 90’s. Then again, it’s impossible not to make a stylistic statement out of it: blue is the color of the roman air, of its fountains and affreschi. The ancient romans used to call it caeruleus, which has a clear reference to the blue of its sky. Today it’s a mark of elegance, casualness in clothing and a search for new, never before seen, original combinations. We will find zannetti’s blue in his timepieces, the piranha, the discobolo, but also in his pens, broken down in various shades of the harlequin, or in the extreme artistic rigorousness of the flinqué enamel.
Since the ‘50s, all the major manufacturers of watches, were confronted on a case type for watches that collectors and fans immediately renamed it “flying saucer (circular wing)” or “Ufo”. The peculiarity is in the design, perfectly circular, accompanied by the complete absence of the loops. The strap, in fact, engage below the actual case, so as to give the appearance of a flying saucer that is “backed” above the wrist. This construction ensures a great clean look, with visual attention that is focused on the dial, along with the ability to embellish the same case edges with engravings or precious stones. annetti with Discobolo reinvented the flying saucer, giving it a meaning typically classical and Roman. The incisions on the rehaut, the ones on the back and the tran- slucent enamel dial, are entirely made by hand. It comes to a very unique piece, the result of the best hand craftsmanship. Sim- ple and sophisticated at the same time, it is a real high applied watchmaking piece, where creativity and craftsmanship contribute to the realization of a unique object of its kind. For the construction of each piece is required the intervention of real masters of art, the engraver, the enameller, the miniaturist, the watchmaker. The result is always unique, where each piece is different from all the others.
The production will be “naturally” limited, because it will be hardly able to create more than two watches a month, about twenty per year.
