GRUEN UFO Disco Volante / Aventurine Dial, Lugless Round Case

— The form of the UFO Disco Volante —

A round case with no lugs.

An aventurine dial like a starry sky.

It looks like a disc floating in space.

"Disco volante" is Italian for flying saucer.

This design, popular in Italy and beyond in the 1960s, released the watch from ornament and raised it into pure beauty of form.

— Gruen's golden age —

Hamilton, Bulova, Movado.

Gruen was loved on the American market enough to be named alongside them.

Fine pieces such as the Chronotimer and the Ocean Chief are crystallisations of a Gruen philosophy that pursued both engineering and aesthetics.

This Precision, too, is a witness in that line.

Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Movado.

A form that only a few brands ever attempted is coming back into the light as an avant-garde that lives within stillness.

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