Description
Ressence has extended its integrated-bracelet Type 7 GMT with an optional fitted rubber strap on a titanium pass-through pin buckle, offered alongside the existing integrated titanium bracelet for both the Black and Cactus dial colourways. The watch itself is unchanged: it is the brand's most-wearable contemporary release, with the same 41 mm Grade 5 titanium case, the same fixed black ceramic bezel, and the same signature convex oil-filled dial driving the ROCS 7 module with GMT function. What has changed is the strap option, and for a model that has until now shipped only on bracelet, it materially expands the wearing case. Price remains US$ 48,500.
Design
The Type 7 case is a 41 mm wide, 14 mm thick titanium "puck", with brushed flanks and polished bezel, and the unmistakable Ressence convex dial — a sapphire crystal hemisphere whose oil-filled chamber projects the rotating ROCS hour, minute, second and GMT discs onto a single optical plane. The Black dial is a deep neutral; the Cactus dial is a muted, slightly desaturated green-grey that Ressence introduced with the Type 7 — unusual within the GMT category for being neither tonal nor saturated, just a quiet desert tone that sits between khaki and slate. The fitted rubber strap is moulded to the case curve and closed by a titanium pass-through pin buckle, designed to keep the wearing height tight to the wrist and to match the existing titanium bracelet for stiffness rather than producing the floppy "diving rubber" silhouette of an aftermarket strap.
Specifications
- Brand and model: Ressence Type 7 Black / Type 7 Cactus on rubber strap
- Case diameter: 41 mm
- Case thickness: 14 mm
- Case material: Grade 5 titanium, brushed flanks, polished top bezel
- Bezel: fixed black ceramic
- Crystal: convex sapphire with oil-filled chamber over the dial
- Caseback: titanium, signed
- Water resistance: 50 m
- Dial colourways: Black; Cactus (desaturated green-grey)
- Display: rotating discs — hours, minutes, seconds, second time zone (GMT)
- Movement: modified base driving the proprietary ROCS 7 display module
- Strap (NEW option): fitted rubber strap with titanium pass-through pin buckle, available alongside the standard integrated titanium bracelet
- Price: US$ 48,500
- Availability: now, via Ressence e-shop and selected retailers
What's Exciting
This is a quiet update, but its quietness is the point. The Type 7 represents Ressence's first attempt at an integrated-bracelet sports watch and is the brand's most-wearable contemporary reference; the integrated titanium bracelet that defined its launch identity also locked it into a particular aesthetic and a particular climate. The fitted rubber strap on a titanium pass-through pin buckle opens it up to pool days, sailing, summer travel, and warmer geographies without compromising the brand's design language — which has always treated the bracelet as a continuation of the case, not as an accessory. For owners who have wanted to take their Type 7 to a beach, this changes the calculus materially. It is also a signal: Ressence is willing to keep editing the Type 7 line within the same case architecture rather than spinning off new references, which is the right move for a brand whose identity rests on a small, deeply considered catalogue.
History
Ressence was founded in 2010 in Antwerp by designer Benoît Mintiens as an unusual proposition for the contemporary independent scene: a brand whose display is the primary intellectual property, with all timekeeping moved off the conventional handset and onto a system of concentrically rotating discs visible through an oil-filled chamber. The brand's first reference, the Type 1, was followed by the Type 3 (the first oil-filled wristwatch with a date and second time-zone), Type 5 (an oil-filled dive watch), Type 7 (the first integrated-titanium-bracelet GMT, launched in 2025), and the recently announced Type 11, which is the first Ressence with a proprietary base movement — Calibre Werk RW-01. The Type 7's place in that catalogue is as the most accessible wearing proposition; the new rubber strap option simply reinforces that position.
