> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.itsabouttime.email/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # A Very Cool Oil-Filled Ressence Changes My Mind, And New Watches From Bell & Ross, Mido, Unimatic And Urwerk - URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/a-very-cool-oil-filled-ressence-changes-my-mind-and-new-watches-from-bell-ross-mido-unimatic-and-urwerk/ - Published: 2026-10-20T15:52:35.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-20T15:52:35.000Z - Author: Vuk Radic - Tags: Daily newsletter Hey friends, welcome back to It’s About Time. I've been telling everyone how much I like Ressence, but internally, I've started to get a bit bored with their releases. Well, no more, because this one... This is exactly why I love this brand. Kudos. Oh, and a note on the paid subscriptions. More than a few people now have told me that they weren't able to get a subscription because something was wrong with the checkout process. It took me a while to figure out what it was, and I think I have. So, if you tried to [get the subscription at a discount](https://www.itsabouttime.email/annual-its-about-time-is-back-discount) but weren't able to, it should be fixed and working now. I think you can also use PayPal now, but I'm not 100% sure that works in every territory. **THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!** Ever since I moved to this new platform, deliverability of emails has been so-so. Some are delivered to a lot of inboxes, some are routed to people's promotions tabs. In case you haven't been getting your emails, check the promotions or junk folders and move it to the primary. That way you'll always get it. --- ****Help me RUN It's About Time** I write this newsletter on my own, and paid subscribers are what keep it running. 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However, Ressence is one of my top 5 favorite brands of all time and I'm just waiting for the moment that I can feature them as the main watch in a newsletter. But I've been having problems with Ressence. When I first saw the TYPE 3, their incredibly cool oil-filled spaceship of a watch, my knees got weak, my brow got wet and I fell deeply in love. Unfortunately, this love has been fading a bit. I still love their watches very much, but they're getting less and less interesting to me. My disinterest peaked this year when the brand made a big deal of using their own movement to run their cool magnetically-connected movements. It's not like I have something against in-house movements. I just liked how scrappy Ressence was using the old ETA base to prove that you can make very cool things with ordinary movements. But, Ressence has also been going way up in price. So high that not using an in-house movement is becoming inexcusable. That also makes the move to an in-house movement leave a bitter taste in my mouth, as if they were only going for it to get more money from us, despite the movement being very cool and beautiful. All that together, and my enthusiasm was waining. Until now, that is. Ressence just introduced the TYPE 10 DN, which uses their in-house movement, and it finally has me swooning for a Ressence. Not because it's their first oil filled model with the new movement. But because... look at it. It's wild looking! It's completely different from what they make, which has me looking at it intensely. The case is 41.5mm wide and made from grade 5 titanium with a dark blue DLC coating. The shape is new for Ressence. Earlier models were soft and rounded, while this one has sharper edges and a strap that runs straight out of the case. It’s the most aggressive design the brand has done, and it looks great. If the next Batman does not wear this watch, it's a missed opportunity. There’s domed sapphire crystals on both sides, anti-reflective coated on the inside. The bezel is built from 24 titanium segments, brushed on the larger surfaces, with sandblasted inserts filled with lume. Water resistance is 50 meters. Case, dial and strap are all the same dark blue. The large convex titanium disc shows the minutes and drives the rest of the display. Three tilted sub-discs indicate the hours, a second time zone and a 120-second running indicator that also acts as a shock absorber. The hour disc has a small opening that changes colour with oil temperature and turns green in the normal range, roughly 15 to 35°C. Indications are engraved and filled with Super-LumiNova. The layout comes from the TYPE 7, so the dial itself isn’t new, but when it's filled with oil no air gap, the discs look printed on the underside of the sapphire. And that's such a cool look. The RW-04 is a development of the TYPE 11’s RW-01, designed by Ressence and produced with Concepto. It’s automatic, can also be hand-wound, and is wound and set through the caseback. It beats at 4Hz and uses two barrels for 60 hours of power reserve. The movement sits in a sealed air chamber and drives the oil side magnetically, with the two magnet sets 0.2mm apart and a 0.1mm titanium membrane between them. An expansion membrane absorbs changes in oil volume so bubbles don’t form as it cools. The strap is dark blue rubber with a DLC titanium pin buckle. The Ressence TYPE 10 DN is limited to 100 pieces, and priced at a significant CHF 45,000 before tax, available from November 2026\. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/ressence-finally-gives-us-a-new-oil-filled-watch-now-with-their-own-movement/) and the watch [on the Ressence website](https://ressencewatches.com/pages/type-10-assets-dl?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 2/ Bell & Ross Sends a Spacecraft Around the Dial ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/10/Bell-and-Ross-BR-03-Space-Mission-1-1.jpeg) Bell & Ross has turned the BR-03 into a toy again, and I mean that in the best possible way. While I will always have a soft spot for their aircraft instrument-inspired square watches, I think they really are at their best when they go all out with creative ideas, no matter how silly they are. Take, for example, their new BR-03 Space Mission, which has no hands to tell the time. Instead, you get a couple of clear discs that have the Earth, the Moon and a spaceship floating around, all there to help tell the time. The case is black ceramic with a micro-blasted finish, 41mm wide and 10.6mm thick. On top is a sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, and 100 meters of water resistance. You also get the standard 100 meters of water resistance. But who cares about the case here. It's all about the dial. The base is black aventurine with dozens of small stars. You'll also notice a small red dot, which stands in for Mars. The spacecraft is modelled on Vortex, a reusable craft Dassault Aviation has been developing, and here it's key for time telling. The disc that has the Moon painted on it uses our satellite to indicate the hours, while the nose of the Vortex points out the minutes. You’ll need a second to read the time the first few times. After that it behaves like any two-hand watch, just with more to look at. Inside is the BR-CAL.325, an automatic built on the Sellita SW330, running at 4Hz with 54 hours of power reserve. It comes with two straps, one rubber and one synthetic fabric, both fitted with a matte black PVD pin buckle. The BR-03 Space Mission is limited to 999 pieces, priced at €4,990\. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/bell-ross-sends-a-spacecraft-around-the-dial/) and the watch [on the Bell & Ross website](https://bellross.com/en-eur/products/br-03-space-mission?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 3/ Mido Gives the Multifort TV Big Date a Chronometer Certificate and a New Checkerboard Dial ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/10/Mido_Multifort-TV-Big-Date-Chronometer_1-1.jpeg) Mido brought back the Multifort TV in 2023\. It’s a steel watch with a rounded rectangular case shaped like an old television screen and an almost integrated bracelet. It's also most likely the best watch shape that Mido puts out. It's very retro, very modern and I love pretty much every single variant they make. This latest one is based on the Big Date, my favorite, and it's the Big Date Chronometer, which adds COSC certification and a redesigned dial, all with the great price we expect from the brand. The case hasn’t changed. It’s 40mm wide, 11.5mm thick, with a lug-to-lug of 46.85mm, in steel with brushed surfaces and polished edges. The front sapphire crystal is anti-reflective treated on both sides, and there’s a sapphire display back. The crown screws down and the watch is rated to 100 meters. There are two dials, blue sunburst and a near-monochrome dark grey. Both get a new pattern of small rectangles laid out like a checkerboard, imitating some of the big boys, but not in a corny way. The hands and applied markers are faceted and filled with Super-LumiNova. The minute scale has moved to a stepped flange, with numerals every five minutes. The date window at 12 now has an applied frame, and “Chronometer” is printed on the dial. Inside is the Mido Calibre 80 COSC, based on the ETA C07.651, which is the Swatch Group’s Powermatic 80 and a descendant of the ETA 2824\. It beats at 3Hz and famously runs for 80 hours. A Nivachron hairspring helps against magnetism, temperature swings and shocks, and COSC certification guarantees accuracy between -4 and +6 seconds a day. Mido has also put more effort into the visible finishing, with blued screws and Côtes de Genève on the rotor, which is also marked “Chronometer.” The bracelet is brushed with polished center links and closes with a push-button folding clasp. The Mido Multifort TV Big Date Chronometer is available in blue (ref. M049.567.11.041.00) and grey (ref. M049.567.11.051.00) for €1,550\. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/mido-gives-the-multifort-tv-big-date-a-chronometer-certificate-and-a-new-checkerboard-dial/) and the watches [on the Mido website](https://www.midowatches.com/en/news-multifort-tv-big-date-chronometer.html?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 4/ Unimatic Goes Fully Iconic With Minimalist Modello Uno and Cinque ICON Limited Editions ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/10/Unimatic-Modello-ICON-1-1.jpg) Unimatic is an independent Italian brand that makes tool watches and very little else. The Modello Uno is its dive watch, the Modello Cinque its field watch, and both are designed around legibility: oversized lumed markers, full minute scales, high contrast. But every now and again, they like to throw caution to the wind, and forget that design brief. The result is the new ICON series that uses the same cases and strip them of pretty much everything but the basics. Very cool! There are two models in this collection. The Modello Uno measures 40mm wide (41.5mm up at the bezel) and 12mm thick, with 600 meters of water resistance. The Modello Cinque, being the field watch, is smaller at 36mm wide and 12mm thick, rated to 300 meters. Both are made from Grade 2 titanium and come either sandblasted or in black DLC. The Uno keeps its rotating bezel with a single lume dot, while the Cinque has a fixed bezel with no lume. All that means that the cases are nearly identical to regular editions, meaning that all the focus is on the dial, which is extremely simple, done in black with the Unimatic logo engraved at six o’clock. The hands are white and skeletonised, and the white parts are Super-LumiNova BG W9 that glows blue. I love how the white hovers over the black dial. Both models use the Sellita SW200-1b, the no-date version of the SW200-1, beating at 4Hz with 38 hours of power reserve and a stated accuracy of ±12 seconds per day. It’s a dependable, unremarkable movement, and appropriate at this price. Each watch comes on a black suede two-piece strap with quick-release pins and a titanium buckle. The Unimatic ICON models are limited to 99 pieces for each of the four variants and they are on preorder right now, with deliveries happening November 10th. The Unimatic Modello Uno ICON is priced at €1,550 in sandblasted titanium and €1,700 in black DLC, while the Modello Cinque ICON costs €1,450 and €1,600, respectively. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/unimaticm-goes-fully-iconic-with-minimalist-modello-uno-and-cinque-icon-limited-editions/) and the watches [on the Unimatic website](https://www.unimaticwatches.com/pages/the-icon-capsule?ref=itsabouttime.email). ### 5/ Urwerk Makes the UR-300 Time Quantum’s Hours Take Themselves Apart on the Hour ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/10/urwerk-ur-300-1-1.jpg) Urwerk’s wandering hours usually work like this: hour numerals ride on a rotating carousel and point to the minutes as they pass along a curved track. It's a wonderful animation of passing time, unlike pretty much anything else in the business. Now we have the new UR-300 Time Quantum which keeps the same idea in mind, but shows it in a more static way. That's to say, there's no more carousel. Its hours sit on a T-shaped frame, and at the top of each hour the frame jumps, swaps its arms and turns every numeral at once. It seems like a simpler way to show the time, but the more you look at it, the more complex and original it looks. The case is made out of Grade 5 titanium, 45.2mm wide, 58.8mm long and 18.25mm thick. Don't let those dimension deter you. Sure, it's a huge watch, but thanks to its unusual shape, it wears much smaller than you would expect. The crown sits at 12, set into the case and guarded by it. Crystals are AR-coated sapphire, and water resistance is 30 meters. There are two versions: plain titanium, called Titan, and one with an AlTiN coating applied by PE-CVD. The T-frame is made of two arms, with a triangular prism at each end of each arm. Four prisms with three faces each give you 12 hours. Whichever prism sits at the foot of the T shows the current hour and travels across an arc of 108 degrees marked 0 to 60 for the minutes, with running seconds on a separate 120-degree track. When the hour ends, the frame jumps 72 degrees, the crossbar pivots to become the new stem, the old stem becomes the crossbar, and all four prisms rotate to show fresh numerals. That sounds incredibly complicated when I try to explain it. So here's a video of it in action on their Instagram. A retractable lever lifts the cam follower clear if you wind the hands back, so setting the watch can’t damage the mechanism. Once you understand it, reading the time is simple and not that much different from their other work: the numeral is the hour, its position on the ark is the minutes. The calibre UR-30.01V is automatic, built on a Vaucher base with Urwerk’s own module for the display. It beats at 4Hz, has 40 jewels, a monometallic balance and two mainspring barrels, with Urwerk’s Dual Flow Turbines regulating the winding. It runs for 40 hours, which is short, but moving that much metal requires a lot of energy. The display parts use beryllium copper, brass, anodised aluminium, ARCAP AP1D, titanium and LIGA nickel, chosen for weight and rigidity part by part. Finishing includes Côtes de Genève, circular and straight graining, and polished, chamfered screw heads. It comes on a NATO-style textile strap, but, of course, executed at the highest level. The Urwerk UR-300 Time Quantum is limited to 25 pieces of each version, priced at CHF 168,000 before taxes. See [more photos here](https://www.itsabouttime.email/urwerk-makes-the-ur-300-time-quantums-hours-take-themselves-apart-on-the-hour/) and the watches [on the Urwerk website](https://www.urwerk.com/collections/ur-satellite/ur-300-time-quantum?ref=itsabouttime.email). --- ****Help me RUN It's About Time** I write this newsletter on my own, and paid subscribers are what keep it running. If you'd like to support it, you'll also get The Caseback, a weekend magazine with longer writing, every Sunday. ****The paid subscription is discounted for just a few more days, so get it now.** [Support IAT ](https://www.itsabouttime.email/annual-its-about-time-is-back-discount) --- ## ⚙️Watch Worthy - [A review of the Movado Heritage Kingmatic](https://www.ablogtowatch.com/mid-century-manliness-movado-heritage-kingmatic-automatic-watch-review/?ref=itsabouttime.email) - [Hands on with the Hublot Big Bang Original](https://www.ablogtowatch.com/better-than-before-hublot-big-bang-original-watch-review/?ref=itsabouttime.email) --- ## ⏲️End links - “As a child, I thought of the burrito as something predictable, filling, and reliable. It would be years before I saw it as a source of political conviction; something that once split my family’s loyalty between their hungry children and a revolutionary cause.” In this essay at Orion, Victoria Blanco writes about her Abuelita, whose family had owned a burrería in downtown Juárez during the Mexican Revolution, and how she worked hard there through childhood, making burritos for Pancho Villa’s troops—an army fighting for a better life for the next generation. “The food we ate was built for movement,” she writes, “the same way we were.” Blanco reflects on the [burrito as a symbol resistance, the borderland, and belonging](https://orionmagazine.org/article/feeding-the-revolution/?ref=itsabouttime.email). - Thousands of small, often obsolete dams are blocking fish migrations across the United States. In this piece, Ben Goldfarb explores the growing movement to remove these barriers—despite political, economic, and emotional obstacles. He asks, “Can government agencies and conservation groups pick up the pace of [dam removal while fish are still around to benefit](https://biographic.com/death-by-a-thousand-dams/?ref=itsabouttime.email)?” - It’s been a month since the story of the Cornell Seven case became national news. Ruby Cramer documents what she describes as “an ever-expanding blast radius of online abuse, threats, and vigilantism which has touched virtually every person connected to the case, along with people who have no immediate connection to it at all.” Among those [closest to the center is the accuser herself](https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/the-doxing-of-jane-doe?ref=itsabouttime.email). --- ## 👀Watch this Time to catch up on The Daily Show! --- Thanks for reading Vuk P.S. If you have any questions, suggestions, gripes or anything else, just reply to this email. It comes straight to me and I try responding to everyone.