The Locman Ducati collection is a project born from the synergy of two Italian excellences that share the same values: sporting soul, cutting-edge technology, and passion for exclusive design as well as perennial research into materials and style, development of technological innovations and increasingly high-performance functions.
Signed in 2017, the partnership between Locman and Ducati has since given rise to four series of watches designed and developed side by side by the style offices of the factories.
The latest collection, launched in 2022, celebrates the Ducati triumph and represents — compared to the previous ones — a further leap in style, which becomes even more gritty and iconic.
The fourth generation of Locman-Ducati watches comprises three models: the Automatic Only Time, the Quartz Chronograph, and the Automatic Chronograph.
The collection, designed by the Ducati Style Centre and developed by Locman, is characterized by an essential, sporty, and refined design, the same concepts found on every Ducati.
Using precious materials and fine finishes of contrasting textures and colors completes the creative vision.
Marco Mantovani, Founder, and CEO of Locman, says: “The collaboration with Ducati is based on the combination of Italian style and performance, a mix that unites two brands for which time is of the essence. Working with professionals like Andrea Ferraresi, who leads the Ducati design team, is a very stimulating experience. Ducati is also a world champion for its ability to combine beauty and performance in the best Made in Italy tradition. The Ducati designers created this new collection, and we were able to engineer and produce it with excellent results. We are proud of it”.
Andrea Ferraresi, Director of the Ducati Style Centre, adds: “For this new collection created with Locman, the Ducati designers wanted to make a technical watch, a high-performance but refined product simultaneously, ideally in line with the style concepts we apply to our motorbikes. Launching the fourth generation of Locman-Ducati watches also consolidates the partnership between the two companies, both Italian and leaders in their respective fields with important values in common.”
Different in their mechanics, the three models in the Locman-Ducati collection share a four-piece case, with the two separate steel lugs embracing the central body, also in steel, which is tightened by four visible screws.
The lugs support the case, then the movement, i.e., the watch engine; in the same way, the Ducati chassis uses the engine as a stressed element of the chassis.
The finishes play on contrasts, alternating extreme cleanliness with specialized treatments not to overload the formal language.
For example, the dial, clean in the area of the counters, presents a distinctive diagonal texture in the size of the location of the logos of the two partner companies.
The same contrast between the satin-finished lugs and the polished case can also be seen.
The Automatic Chronograph is undoubtedly the most exclusive model in the line, produced in a limited series of 100 numbered pieces.
The watch is water-resistant to 100 meters (10 ATM) and is distinguished by its elegant and incisive dial design encloses three counters and a date window.
The two automatic models are characterized by a crystal porthole set into the titanium back, which, in the chronograph version, allows one to observe the prestigious Swiss Sellita SW500 25-jewel stop-second movement.
As different in mechanics as in aesthetics, the watches in the Locman Ducati collection embody the design, reliability, and technological solutions of the “rose” from Borgo Panigale. It captures its desmodromic essence and adapts it to the wrist.
