Giuliano Mazzuoli Cemento

A wristwatch made of cement.

Many call him architect, and he responds üI do not have a degree, and please do not put a title in front of my name.ü This is Giuliano Mazzuoli who for seventy years has lived in the hills around Florence. Those who know what he does and his story will be anxious to know what is cooking in the pot this time. Those who donüt know him will want to know better what is inside the üpotsü that came before. He says that he discovered design when he was older and he says that there is nothing really left to design these days and that design is actually a reproduction of something that nature already made. You canüt look for it. It üdrapesü itself with simplicity and if you know how to recognize it, it will find you. He designed his üMokaü pen during an English lesson. The success of this writing object stimulated him to design a watch, but he wasnüt able to since he risked doing that which he didnüt want to do, and that was copy. Here therefore abandoned the idea. It was at that point that he discovered that you shouldnüt look for design. Inspiration found ration found him. His eyes fell on a pressure gauge of an old air compressor, an instrument that reflected simplicity, designed for its function and not for its aesthetic, that measured air pressure. Twenty-four hours later he was wearing a non-functioning prototype that was faithful to the instrument that measured air and water pressure and transformed into an instrument that measured time calling it üManometro.ü üManometroü in Italian means pressure gauge. This situation ignited the mechanism that brought him to the world of watchmaking. Subsequently, he was stimulated by memories of the past around the world of engines and automobile racing and he designed üContagiri,ü inspired by the instrument that counts the revolutions of the engine. To remain in the world of sports cars he designed üTrasmissione Meccanica,ü and this time that which transmits energy from the motor to the wheels of the car was reproduced in the case and the dial of the watch. Giuliano loves ülivingü his city and his city gave him an incredible ürenaissance energyü when he made his next watch. Yes! With Michelangeloüs marble and with great craftsmanship he coated a case with the DNA of Manometro proposing a line that could only be called üCarrara.ü Today there is something new, but itüs not a new watch. The design of the ücarrureü and the dial are the same as the one that is made of marble. The objective was not just to search for ano to search for another material for the case but to find materials that together with its color would give distinctive and attractive chromatic effects that up until now were never seen in a watch case. Giuliano, still smiling, says, ¨¹It was a stroke of luck! The creativity with which I humbly try to maintain a good rapport with was right in my house. Maintenance was being done in my garden and I stopped to watch the workers who were preparing some cement. I thought of that mixture to build a new case and the subsequent phase was to maintain the gray/green color that attracted me so much but that normally is lost when the material dries and matures. A careful polishing and finishing process gave the surface an incredible and pleasant touch.¨¹ Mazzuoli affirms ¨¹I am very happy with the result, and even this watch is a pure breed.¨¹ He says ¨¹the final result excites me more than the original idea.¨¹ This is how Mazzuoli concludes his brief comment on his latest watch, ¨¹Cemento.¨¹

Reference CEM1601: Cemento Concrete Case, Black Dial, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Screw-Down Crown