![Eduardo Souto de Moura watch](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/eduardo-souto-de-moura-watch-lebond_dezeen_2364_hero_6-852x479.jpg)
Eduardo Souto de Moura creates watch with face rotated "for optimal visibility on the wrist"
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has designed a watch for LeBond with its face rotated by 30 degrees to optimise viewing.
The timepiece has a minimalist design with a circular face and was created for the watch brand LeBond, which described it as "an architect's take on a driver's watch".
![Eduardo Souto de Moura](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/eduardo-souto-de-moura-watches_dezeen_2364_col_0-852x1057.jpg)
To create a "new spin on familiar things" Portuguese architect Souto de Moura rotated the watch's dial, movement and crown 30 degrees clockwise. According to the architect, placing 12 where the 1 would traditionally be gives the wearer the optimal viewing angle.
"The 12 is the reference, and we rotate 30 degrees for optimal visibility on the wrist," said Souto de Moura.
![Eduardo Souto de Moura watch](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/eduardo-souto-de-moura-watch-lebond_dezeen_2364_col_21-852x1136.jpg)
As Souto de Moura wanted the watch to be as slim as possible, it has a 38.5-millimetre case made from grade-five titanium. The face of the watch, which has matte black hands, is protected by domed sapphire crystal.
There are two variants of the watch. The first has a matte beige dial and a navy blue leather strap, while the other has a matte grey dial with a black leather strap.
"I want the watch to be and feel as slim as possible," said Souto de Moura.
"I arrived at the office feeling bored, but when I saw the latest pictures of the watch, I became excited," he continued.
![Eduardo Souto de Moura watch](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/eduardo-souto-de-moura-watch-lebond_dezeen_2364_col_27-852x852.jpg)
One of the world's best-known architects, Souto de Moura won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011.
His projects include the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego gallery, which is topped by pyramid-like chimneys, the Braga stadium and the Burgo Towers, in front of which the watch was photographed.
![Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect watches](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/eduardo-souto-de-moura-watch-lebond_dezeen_2364_col_11-852x1199.jpg)
Souto de Moura is the latest Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect to design a watch, with fellow laureates Frank Gehry recently creating a transparent watch for luxury brand Louis Vuitton and Tadao Ando designing a serpent-informed watch for Bulgari.
Other watches designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architects include a piece by Rafael Moneo for Cauny and a square watch informed by a swimming pool by Álvaro Siza.
The photography is by Fernando Guerra.