Starting from scratch can be easier than reinventing a classic, because you can stretch the imagination as far as you can.
Takuya Matsumoto, Kiko Goda and Yugo Hibayashi.
Last year, Seiko challenged its designers to liberally refresh seven watches, whose reinterpretations are now on display in Bangkok at the Power Design Project “Rebirth” Exhibition held at Central@CentralWorld.
Three of the eight designers attended the opening of the exhibition and shared their ideas on the rebirth of the vintage timepieces.
Takuya Matsumoto revisited a King Seiko from the 1970s. After more than 50 years, the model still retains its brilliance thanks to its distortion-free mirror surfaces rendered by the Zaratsu polishing technique.
“I was particularly drawn to this technique which involves polishing a material by pressing it against a flat rotating plate coated with an abrasive…
