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DAEM is a Brooklyn-based company that creates luxury watches through world-class design and collaborations.  DAEM watched are manufactured in Switzerland and are a unique blend of fashion, art, and human narratives formed into an original, distinctive aesthetic.  

This DAEM x Jean-Michel Basquiat Collection features three designs featuring the work of the iconic artist blended with DAEM's high-end cultural aesthetic.  The Now's the Time Watch incorporates the artist's iconic work “Now’s The Time" (1985).  The title is a tribute reference to jazz musician Charlie Parker’s 1945 song of the same name and conveys that, despite the precision of time, there's something beautiful in focusing solely on the here and now.

Yinka Shonibare's work explores identity and post-colonialism within the contemporary conversation about globalization and identity. His Carriage Clock is a wry commentary on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and the vestiges of empire.

Carriage clocks were invented in 1812 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, reputedly for Napoleon to take on his campaigns. They became a popular travel timepiece in the 19th century, paving the way for the development of the wristwatch in the late 1800’s.  Shonibare's reimagining of the object transforms the carriage - which is based on the Queen's Irish State Coach -  into a clock itself.

Looking through the window of its coach, viewers see both their own visage and the image of a working clock reflected back at them by a small mirror embedded in the interior.  Inside the carriage sits a clock whose hands move in reverse; the time is only legible when read in the mirror across from it.  The seats in the vehicle are upholstered in Shonibare's signature Dutch-wax printed fabric called batik.  The textiles' complex origins and shifting significance refer to both a long history of international exchange and the fiction of cultural authenticity.

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DAEM is a Brooklyn-based company that creates luxury watches through world-class design and collaborations.  DAEM watched are manufactured in Switzerland and are a unique blend of fashion, art, and human narratives formed into an original, distinctive aesthetic.  

This DAEM x Jean-Michel Basquiat Collection features three designs featuring the work of the iconic artist blended with DAEM's high-end cultural aesthetic. Warrior pays homage to Basquiat's undertaking of primitive portraits to redefine the expectations and realities of heroes, saints, and warriors.