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Tadao Ando (b. 1941) is a self-taught architect whose minimalist yet monumental buildings demonstrate his mastery of concrete, geometry, and light. Winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize, Ando’s notable works include the Church of the Light in Osaka and most recently a lavender-planted hilltop shrine containing a giant Buddha in Hokkaido. While the majority of his work is located in his home country of Japan, he is also famed for several international projects, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas and 152 Elizabeth, a residential tower in New York City as well as the Cerro Pelon Ranch in New Mexico for designer Tom Ford.

It is only fitting then, for the Octo Finissimo—characterized by its sleek, modernist form—to be reinterpreted by the master architect with the release of the first Tadao Ando Edition in 2019.

The present timepiece was released in a limited edition of 160 and joins the titanium Reference 103245 and the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Carbon to form the trilogy of Tadao Ando Edition Octo Finissimo watches.

The case and bracelet of the Reference 103534 are made of matte black ceramic with a textured, sandblasted finish, featuring a rich blue colored dial, meant to recall the depths of the night sky or the surface of a rippling lake. The yellow gold crescent around five o'clock recalls the earliest stages of a new moon, called Mikazuki in Japanese, and symbolizes of rebirth and the passage of time. The moon on the surface of the dial can be doubly interpreted as the moon in the night sky or a reflection of the moon on water.

We are pleased to offer the present 103534 complete with box and papers in excellent condition.