{"id":22366,"date":"2017-03-08T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com?p=22366"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:32:16","slug":"mct-anish-kapoor-adopts-a-minimalistic-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/mct-anish-kapoor-adopts-a-minimalistic-approach.html","title":{"rendered":"MCT : Anish Kapoor adopts a minimalistic approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Sequential One S110 Evo Vantablack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CASE<\/strong> : grade 5 titanium, 50 parts, domed sapphire crystal, lateral sapphire, sapphire caseback, water-resistant to 30m<\/p>\n<p><strong>SIZE<\/strong> : 45x45mm<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOVEMENT<\/strong> : mechanical manual-winding (Caliber MCT-S1.0, 50h power reserve, 471 parts, bridges hand-polished and adorned with C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve, patented energy storage system<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUNCTIONS<\/strong> : sequential hours, minutes on a 270\u00b0 rotating dial DIAL : coated with Vantablack, minutes on a rotating dial, hours shown on four successive prisms, hands with Vantablack moon<\/p>\n<p><strong>STRAP<\/strong> : hand-sewn alligator leather, tripleblade folding clasp<\/p>\n<p><strong>10-PIECE INDIVIDUALLY SIGNED LIMITED EDITION<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the sculptor Anish Kapoor, notably known for his monumental works in the world\u2019s greatest capitals, Vantablack is \u201cthe blackest material in the universe, after a black hole ; a physical object that is impossible to see\u201d. The London-based artist has given this material \u2013 composed of carbon nanotubes measuring one millionth of a millimeter thick and capable of absorbing 99.9% of the light they receive \u2013 a nobler cause than its use in the armament industry by incorporating it into his work. He has indeed achieved a degree of mastery enabling it to be applied to a joint creation produced in conjunction with the Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps : the Sequential One S110 Evo Vantablack. Representing a complete first in the watch industry, the fascinating properties of the blackest material ever made by humankind enable the small moon coated with it to disappear in the course of its rotation around the likewise coated dial, and the moon to appear as if suspended in mid-air amid the shadows. While the artist\u2019s signature appears engraved on the back of the black DLC-treated titanium case, that of the brand takes the emblematic shape of its prismbased sequential hours display, invented by MCT founder Denis Giguet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the sculptor Anish Kapoor, notably known for his monumental works in the world\u2019s greatest capitals, Vantablack is \u201cthe blackest material in the universe, after a black hole ; a physical object that is impossible to see\u201d. The London-based artist has given this material \u2013 composed of carbon nanotubes measuring one millionth of a millimeter thick and capable of absorbing 99.9% of the light they receive \u2013 a nobler cause than its use in the armament industry by incorporating it into his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22391,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366\/revisions\/22391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}