MCT’S SEQUENTIAL ONE S110 EVO VANTABLACK

From day one, Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps was set on creating only bold and non-traditional timepieces, and the Sequential One S110 Evo Vantablack, a collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor, is definitely that. Kapoor has employed a high-tech substance developed for the military and aerospace industry, Vantablack, that’s said to be the “blackest material ever produced.” Composed of carbon nanotubes a millionth of a millimetre thick that absorb 99.965 per cent of the light that falls on them, Vantablack is used on the back dial and on a disc at the tip of the minute hand. The movement appears to be suspended in mid-air, and the disc appears and disappears as if by magic during its rotation around the dial.