adam wehsely swiczinsky horn watch

horn bracelet digital watch by adam wehsely swiczinsky – the watch switched on…until less than a hundred years ago, important articles of daily use such as combs and buttons were made of horn. it was only during the course of the twentieth century that bakelite and celluloid presented horn with its first competition; the development of the first synthetic materials eventuallyrendered this naturally grown difficult to work with material entirely obsolete. nevertheless there are still some people who continue to work with this material and thomas petz who inherited his grandfather’s horn manufactory in vienna, is one of them.

austrian designer adam wehsely swiczinsky worked together with thomas petz of petz hornmanufaktur to create a horn bracelet digital watch and horn vision glasses. the collaboration was part of the passionswege series that was held during vienna design week 09.

horn bracelet digital watch by adam wehsely swiczinsky

the underside of the watch

horn vision glasses

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