Cauny x Souto Moura

Cauny x Souto Moura

The Cauny Souto de Moura is a watch collection designed by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize. In the design of this watch, Souto de Moura set three clear goals: the dial must display the time with absolute clarity, the case must be “as thin as possible”, and there must be no gaps between the strap and the case. These three design criteria — clarity, slenderness, and integration — give rise to an object of rare elegance. The polished case combines brushed steel along the sides, the slightly domed sapphire gives depth, and the German leather strap merges seamlessly with the case — not as an accessory appended, but as part of the whole. On top of this foundations, Souto Moura then played with an inner reflecting ring, as well as with the use of Roman numerals, where the axes form an architectural reference to number one.

The result is a timepiece that, like Souto de Moura’s buildings, stands by subtlety, proportion and intentional functionality. For those who value design worn on the wrist — and time lived with awareness — the Cauny Souto de Moura is more than a watch: it is architecture in miniature, in a gesture of lasting elegance.

Author's note

Eduardo Souto Moura on his Cauny:

"I like this clock because it's simple, you can see the time clearly, and it's like a building: it has to be simple and functional, and if possible, beautiful... or rather, "it has to be beautiful and if it works, even better...", as Oscar Niemeyer said.

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Brief biography

Eduardo Souto Moura was born in 1952 in Oporto, where he still lives today. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto, and learned from two essential masters throughout his career: Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza.

His work is vast and covers both private homes and public buildings. Among the first, the villas in Porto, Serra da Arrábida or Moledo were famous. Among the largest buildings, he
designed the Braga Municipal Stadium, which is by far the most beautiful football stadium in the world. Still in this domain, there are works as remarkable as the Casa das Artes and Torre do Burgo, in Porto, A Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, in Cascais, and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, in London, among many others.

Souto Moura also combined his exceptional communication skills, thirst for knowledge and sense of humor in a long academic career, which took him to several universities around the world. The Faculty of Architecture of Paris-Belleville, the schools of Architecture of Harvard and Dublin, the ETH of Zurich and the School of Architecture of Lausanne serve as examples. The Pritzker Prize, awarded in 2011, crowned a long list ofinternational awards and recognitions, to which was added the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2018.

An affable and provocative figure, Eduardo Souto Moura
continues to learn and draw.

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Meeting over a drink in a Lisbon hotel before the launch party in Cascais, Souto Moura takes off his watch. With a 15-minute lateral conversation in English, my poor Italian, and interpreted Portuguese, he explains his thoughts behind the elegant piece of minimalism.

Architects say they find a certain affinity between designing major structures and smaller items to wear on the wrist.

Meeting over a drink in a Lisbon hotel before the launch party in Cascais, Souto Moura takes off his watch. With a 15-minute lateral conversation in English, my poor Italian, and interpreted Portuguese, he explains his thoughts behind the elegant piece of minimalism.