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Faucet and shower head design

BY Stefanie Cookey and Delphine Muller

The Brand

• Originally named Wilsdorf and Davis

• Leading brand in luxury wrist watch industry

• Highly innovative; known for creating the Oyster(First water proof wrist watch), first wristwatch with automatically changing date, first wristwatch to show two time zones at once, first wristwatch to earn a chronometer certification

The Watch

• Rolex Daytona

• Originally produced in 1963

• Adapted by race car drivers and other motor sports

• Features include; waterproof, self winding chronometer, stop watch combined with display.

• Materials vary from steel to various types of gold or crocodile leather and may be incrusted with diamonds

• Not easily obtained with a wait time from 1-5 years.

• Original Daytona watches have been auctioned off for over a million dollars

• Price range for Daytona from 10,000- 100,000+ euros

Faucet Design

Shape inspired by strap of a watch FEATURES Sensor Touch pad temperature regulator with self powered LED lights to show Hot vs cold. Use water energy for power. Ecological design- conserve water with sensor

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Side Front

Top

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Details

TOUCH User swipes finger along waterproof touch pad, LED light appears to show how cold or hot the water is. Water gets colder as you swipe left and hotter as you swipe right.

SENSOR Contains: Sensor display Detection part Signal connector plugs AC 0V or DC 6V power Water pipe

Shower Design

Inspired by the round shape of the watch and its movement. Hand shower head Fixed shower head Timer Hot/Cold handle Switch head showers Timer: Ecologic To control the time spent in the shower to save water.

Details

TIMER Regulate time spent in shower User chooses a time between 0- 60 minutes and the timer counts down until 0 then the water shuts off. Sensor connected to timer that allows the water to switch off after given time.

Piping system

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Full shower

Overhead shower

Removable shower head

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Materials

• Stainless steel

• Gold