Max Bill
In 1962, Swiss artist Max Bill
(1908-1994) created a few mechanical watches for the German company Junghans.
These watches are now available again in a re-edition. They show how Max Billīs
has perceived product form - his expression for design: To create "the
useful, the beautifully modest".
Max Bill, a child of the Bauhaus-generation, a student of Walter Gropius, and a fellow to Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe, was a creative art-virtuoso. His varied activities as painter, sculptor, teacher, and designer attest to it. His works show a hitherto unsurpassed constructive clarity and proportional precision.
Given his artistic credentials, Max Bill watches are simply about design aesthetics.