Raketa Malevich Triptych
Three mechanical Raketa watches, each built on one Malevich shape — a square, a circle, a cross. They are shown the way the paintings were: hung along the wall of an empty hall you walk through. Each watch is made in an edition of 100, and the three can be had together in one box.
I. Malevich Square
In 1915 Malevich exhibited a black square hung across a corner of the room, where an orthodox Russian icon would sit. A century later the square returns to the dial — a refusal of ornament, a horizon.
The painting
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1923. Oil on canvas, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. It hangs in the hall, and the watch stands in the bay beside it.
The watch
- Movement
- Raketa 2615 · in-house automatic
- Case
- Stainless steel, 40mm
- Diameter
- 40 mm
- Dial
- Natural agate — black
- Glass
- Sapphire, anti-reflective
- Water resistance
- 10 ATM
- Power reserve
- 40 h power reserve
- Strap
- Genuine leather, 20mm · quick-change
- Edition
- 100 pieces
- Price
- $1,890
II. Malevich Circle
The circle is time itself made visible: a closed line without beginning, without end, indifferent to the hour it displays. Malevich painted it, we wind it.
The painting
Kazimir Malevich, Black Circle, 1923. Oil on canvas, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. It hangs in the hall, and the watch stands in the bay beside it.
The watch
- Movement
- Raketa 2615 · in-house automatic
- Case
- Stainless steel, 40mm
- Diameter
- 40 mm
- Dial
- Natural agate — white
- Glass
- Sapphire, anti-reflective
- Water resistance
- 10 ATM
- Power reserve
- 40 h power reserve
- Strap
- Genuine leather, 20mm · quick-change
- Edition
- 100 pieces
- Price
- $1,890
III. Malevich Cross
Two lines meeting at a right angle — the oldest coordinate, the plainest architecture. The Cross anchors the triptych between reduction and rotation.
The painting
Kazimir Malevich, Black Cross, 1923. Oil on canvas, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. It hangs in the hall, and the watch stands in the bay beside it.
The watch
- Movement
- Raketa 2615 · in-house automatic
- Case
- Stainless steel, 40mm
- Diameter
- 40 mm
- Dial
- Natural agate — transparent, tinted
- Glass
- Sapphire, anti-reflective
- Water resistance
- 10 ATM
- Power reserve
- 40 h power reserve
- Strap
- Genuine leather, 20mm · quick-change
- Edition
- 100 pieces
- Price
- $1,890
The Triptych
All three watches in one box — Square, Circle and Cross, numbered as a set. At the end of the hall the wall turns and the three stand together. $4,990, edition of 100 sets.
About this site
This is a concept promo, not a shop. The order flow is a simulation: no card is charged and nothing is shipped. The paintings belong to the State Russian Museum; the watches are a design proposal built around them.