This is the multiple award-winning watch with which Klaus Botta started his own brand more than twenty years ago. He has gone on to design various single-hand timepieces, but this is the one that started it all.

Things become clearer when you reduce them to their bare essentials.

This elementary philosophy is the basic idea behind our one hand UNO watch with its astonishingly simple approach to time-keeping: the UNO makes do with just one hand, the hour hand. This moves just like the hour hand of any normal watch with several hands, in other words, every 12 hours it completes one full rotation.

The simplified dial means that the one hand watch provides an approximate idea of the current time at a glance (e.g. shortly before three oclock). If a more precise indication of the time is required, the five-minute gradations on the UNO allow you to work out the exact time, accurate to more or less one minute, by judging the position of the hand in between two of the five-minute lines. The great strength of the UNO, however, lies in everyday time-keeping and the fact that the time of day is shown, at a glance, by an analogue and graphic representation of the day.

With the UNO quartz single hand watch, the time of the day is shown at a glance. UNO is also available in black or with a vegetable-dye leather strap.

Award

2000 | Exhibit at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
1998 | Nominee for the Bundespreis Produktdesign
1996 | Mono watch magazine Japan, Watch of the Year 1996, 3. place
1996 | Award Roter Punkt fur hohe Designqualitat
1996 | iF, product design award
1995 | Exhibit at the Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago
1995 | Good Design Award, Chicago
1994 | Design Plus , Award

 

Specifications

Diameter:  40 mm
Height:  6.9 mm
Weight:  80 g (with steel strap)
Movement:  RONDA 705 Swiss quartz
Case Material:  Stainless steel
Glass Type:  Plane sapphire glass
Water Resistance:  3 ATM (30 m)
Strap:  Steel
Special Features:  One hand watch
Country of Manufacture:   Germany
Warranty:  2 Years

The metal bracelet has been designed to be easily adjusted in length by anyone, using just a simple paper clip. No need to pay a watch maker to do it. If you prefer, run a string around your wrist and tell us the length of the string, and we would be happy to pre-adjust the bracelet before shipping the watch to you.

* Delivery takes 2-3 weeks

For Canada (BC), price INCLUDES shipping and HST (12%)
For Canada (ON, NB, NL), price INCLUDES shipping, HST (13%)
For Canada (NS), price INCLUDES shipping and HST (15%)
For Canada (QC, SK, MB, PEI, AB, YT, NU, NT), price INCLUDES shipping and GST (5%)
For Japan, price INCLUDES shipping and Japanese consumption tax (5%)

Rufus Lin Designs is the sole distributor for Botta watches in USA, Canada, Japan and Singapore.