Blog | BOTTA design

Every year, the Design Center Baden-Württemberg awards its international design prize "Focus Open" to products with outstanding design.BOTTA also belongs to the select circle of award winners in 2021.

The TRES 24 by BOTTA convinces with an unconventional display principle paired with outstanding design quality. It has now received an award for this: The watch was awarded the Good Design Award 2020. Every year, the Chicago Athenaeum Design Museum honours high-quality product design with this internationally renowned award.

We at BOTTA like to give time extraordinary, but always logical shapes. This is also true of the 24-hour watch TRES 24, with which time seems to pass only half as fast, because its dial shows the whole day at a glance in a generous manner - and yet is accurate to the minute.

The Bauhaus, probably the most famous German design school in history, has had an enormous influence on our lives and the appearance of our products. Nowadays, more and more watch manufacturers also advertise with the slogan "Bauhaus watches". How credible is this reference and what does the Bauhaus really stand for?

The TRES colores convinces with refined details and embodies the BOTTA design philosophy in a very special way. It transfers important insights of design history into the present and is particularly associated with a pioneering institution.

A look back at 100 years of Bauhaus and its designers today. Klaus Botta explains, how this theory of design has influenced the world to this day.

Industrial design has become an indispensable and valuable tool in the development process of a product. While products used to be manufactured exclusively by hand in earlier times, the profession of product designer is linked to the industrial revolution and the associated mass production. The demands on industrial design have developed significantly over the past decades.

How do the drastic price differences of watches come about? BOTTA's claim to design, quality and price.

The Goldschmiede Zeitung reports on BOTTA, pioneer of the modern one-hand watch. We were allowed to put this beautiful reading piece online.