You’re never fully dressed without a wristwatch. If all-black everything is your style, you can’t go any bigger than the the S-110 Evo Venta Black from Swiss Watch Company. This watch isn’t special for its shiny metal or dazzling jewels but for a new reason: it’s made with Vantablack, the blackest material in the world.
Discovered in 2014 by Surrey Nanosystems and the British National Physics Laboratory, Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of radiation, including light waves and can serve as an accent on the dial. The watch’s four dials and five flip-digit prisms make for a highly technical face that would have any collector salivating, no matter the color. In addition, it features 81 rubies, 471 overall components and a power reserve of up to 40-hours.
Earlier this year, the British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor made news by securing exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack, stating that its color is so deep as to be disorienting to viewers.
In a conversation with Artforum, Kapoor said that “the nanostructure of Vantablack is so small that it virtually has no materiality.”
“It’s thinner than a coat of paint and rests on the liminal edge between an imagined thing and an actual one. It’s a physical thing that you cannot see, giving it a transcendent or even transcendental dimension, which I think is very compelling.”
Who said high fashion can’t rise to the level of philosophy?
If you’re keen to own the blackest watch in the world, it’ll set you back a cool $95,000, and you’ll want to act soon. The watch will see a very limited release of 10 pieces made.