Mondaine Helvetica Erik Spiekermann Collection
Contributed by Erik Spiekermann
on Jun 20th, 2017. Artwork published in
April 2017
.
License: All Rights Reserved.
Mondaine Helvetica is a series of Swiss watches that aim to transfer the essence of the Helvetica typeface to a watch, see also this previous post by Indra Kupferschmid.
This special edition is available in Light, Regular and Bold. The model shown here is the Regular. It introduces numeric markers which, rather than featuring traditional hour digits, utilize the minutes past the hour in 5 counts: 00, 05, 10, 15 and so on; set in Neue Helvetica Extended. The Mondaine logo is in Futura caps.
Source: mondaine-usa.com License: All Rights Reserved.
1 Comment on “Mondaine Helvetica Erik Spiekermann Collection”
Jan Tschichold always said that the ‘Serifenlose’ (typeface without serifs, sans-serif, gothic) should disappear. I’d be interested to know if he would still think that way today, after all the achievements of Frutiger, Spiekermann, Hans Eduard Meier and others.