Minetta
Model History
Like Soho and Stanhope, Minetta also owes its name to a precise corner of New York: Minetta Street and Minetta Lane, two small streets in Greenwich Village named after Minetta Creek, a waterway that once ran through the area. If Soho speaks to the city's artistic soul and Stanhope to the more formal register of the Upper East Side, Minetta interprets the more sober, everyday tone of the Village: a watch meant for continuous wear, less "jewelry" and more "everyday accessory".
The collection offers round 36 mm cases, in polished steel or black ion-plated steel, with black or metallic dials, essential indices or Arabic numerals and contrasting hands for easy reading. The 18 mm steel bracelet, with a deployant clasp, reinforces the model's practical character compared to Stanhope's narrower, closer-fitting bracelets.
Minetta also follows the production scheme common to DKNY collections: design, production and distribution entrusted to Fossil Group under license from the brand, a quartz movement with hour, minute and second functions, a scratch-resistant mineral crystal, and a more generous 50-meter water resistance compared to the more limited rating of the Stanhope line.
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Main Executions
The Minetta Creek that gives the street its name was never fully erased: buried in the 19th century during Manhattan's urban expansion, the waterway still flows underground today, and according to various local accounts its presence is occasionally blamed for flooding in some Village basements — a small piece of the city's hidden history that DKNY carries, without ever stating it explicitly, on the wrist.