This watch celebrates Russia’s avant-garde art and Raketa’s legacy of dabbling with the unconventional.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russian avant-garde artists such as Malevich and Kandinsky decided to radically move away from mainstream classic art towards a new form of abstract art that was free from any kind of association with our physical world: their paintings are characterized by colorful shapes freely floating in an endless white space where the rules of gravity do not exist.

Raketa, which often stands out from mainstream watches, has designed a watch which not only celebrates Russia’s avant-garde artistic movement but also opens a new way in showing the movement of time: its very unusual hands, in the form of round and triangular shapes, float around a dial which is itself designed in an avant-garde style. Why should the design of watch hands always follow the same pattern?

The movement of these abstract shapes is powered by an automatic movement entirely designed and produced at the Raketa Watch Factory in Saint Petersburg.

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