Watch Design Portfolio, Manfredi Calamai.
Selected mechanical watch designs, concepts and independent experiments developed across more than fifteen years in Swiss watch design. Each project explores how proportion, function, material and character can become a coherent object.
This portfolio is a controlled archive of things that were either carefully designed or stubbornly insisted upon.
It documents watches that survived internal arguments, personal projects that escalated beyond reason, and systems that were refined until they stopped shouting and started making sense. Some were built inside established structures. Others required inventing the structure first.
In all cases, the objective was the same: reduce noise, increase clarity, and remove anything that did not deserve to exist.
What remains is here.
IWC Portofino Perpetual Calendar
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Orologi Calamai GMT Automatico
Orologi Calamai I-A275 Chronograph
IWC Pilot’s Watch Performance Chronograph Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month, IW388801, Cerataniu
Maurice de Mauriac — Letzigrund Watch Concept
BitWet
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Big Pilot’s Constant-Force Tourbillon AMG ONE
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Orologi Calamai GMT "botte di ferro"
IWC Portofino 3574
The last Pair
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BUTT – Bulk Utility Transient Terminal