Alessi — Neko AL24002 | Green polyurethane wristwatch

There is something disarming about the simplicity of the Neko: a soft-to-the-touch green circle that embraces the wrist with the lightness of an object designed to inhabit time without weighing it down. Polyurethane - an unusual material for a watch, deliberately distant from the rhetoric of traditional watchmaking luxury - creates a substantial, almost sculptural form in which the dial blends into the body of the object itself. The chosen green is no ordinary color: it is a vivid, vital hue that transforms the everyday act of checking the time into a small aesthetic gesture. Behind the Neko are Kazuyo Sejima and Ryūe Nishizawa, the Japanese duo who work under the acronym SANAA - the same studio that received the Pritzker Prize, the Oscar of global architecture, in 2010. Their poetic is well known: transparency, lightness, and the dissolution of the boundary between inside and outside. Applied to the extremely small scale of a wristwatch, this philosophy becomes an object that seems almost not to exist, and yet it does - with a precise chromatic presence and a geometry that allows no superfluous ornament. The piece was presented in May 2010 as part of the Alessi collection and now belongs to the "end of series" category: a detail that further enhances its collectible value. We chose it for those who see the everyday object as a silent manifesto of taste. The Neko is not a watch for those who like to show off: it is a piece for those who know SANAA, for those who have visited the Louvre-Lens or the New Museum in New York, and recognize in that green circle the same formal rigor applied to an intimate, personal scale. It is the kind of object Stilmobili loves to tell the story of: rare, coherent, and intelligently signed. Design notes: diameter 3.40 cm, thickness 0.80 cm, weight 240 g including packaging. Alessi production, SANAA design, 2010. Discontinued piece.