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ARCHIVE MODULE 02Featured Models
CATALOGUE MODULE 01The Valour is RZE's titanium racing chronograph, offering a lightweight case with UltraHex coating and a meca-quartz movement.
Autark Tourbillon
The Autark Tourbillon represents the democratization of haute horlogerie, featuring an in-house Swiss tourbillon movement in a lightweight titanium sports case.
Legacy Machine 101
The Legacy Machine 101 features a suspended flying balance wheel above the dial, showcasing MB&F's mechanical art in a traditional 40mm round case.
Hamburg Automatik
The Hamburg Automatik is a classic daily watch, presenting a larger dial inspired by maritime measuring instruments and a reliable automatic movement.
Calligraph Duneshore
A sculptural and architectural sports watch featuring curved cushion-cased lines, sandwich dial details, and fountain-pen-nib hands.
Venture Titanium
The Venture Titanium is a lightweight 38mm field watch, featuring an angular titanium case and a workhorse Japanese automatic movement.
Logical One
The Romain Gauthier Logical One features a patented constant-force mechanism with a ruby-chain and fusee, wound via a case-band pusher.
Signalman
The Schofield Signalman features a heavy, flared case, a deep matte dial, a power reserve indicator, and a GMT complication.
Falcon Series III
The Falcon Series III is Lorier's retro explorer watch, showing a textured waffle dial, high-dome acrylic crystal, and a highly wearable 36mm steel case.
Aquascaphe Classic
The Aquascaphe Classic is Baltic's flagship vintage-style dive watch, combining 1960s skin diver aesthetics with modern construction and a high-beat Japanese movement.
Marine
An ultra-limited, vintage-style Swiss dive watch featuring a sandwich dial, mirror-polished bevels, and a super-domed sapphire crystal.
Sector Automatic Ref. 2116-A
The Sector Automatic is Furlan Marri's premier mechanical three-hand watch, presenting a cow-horn lug case, a multi-textured sector dial, and a premium Swiss caliber.
M100
A modern 40mm military field watch paying tribute to the historical WWII 'Dirty Dozen' watches, featuring molded 3D solid-lume numerals.
Brunswick
An elegant cushion-cased dress watch featuring pipette numerals, a hand-polished case, and a slim manual-wind Swiss movement.
The Navygraf Marine Nationale is an official military dive watch made in collaboration with the French Navy, featuring an in-house YEMA2000 caliber and a classic layout.
Modello Uno
A brutalist and minimal professional dive watch featuring a sterile bezel, high legibility, and heavy brushed case architecture.
Vingt-8
The Vingt-8 is Kari Voutilainen's signature timepiece, representing the absolute peak of traditional hand-finishing and custom dial work.
GSAR
The Marathon GSAR is a Swiss-made professional search and rescue dive watch featuring tritium tube dial markers and a 41mm steel case.
Seneca
The Seneca is Beaucroft's flag-bearer, a contemporary dress watch featuring a refined 40mm case, clean dial geometry, and British design pedigree.
Fortitude Lite
The Fortitude Lite is Astor+Banks' everyday tool watch, boasting a compact 38.5mm case, high water resistance, and an anti-magnetic shield.
Hydrium
The Isotope Hydrium features a micro-blasted steel case, a sapphire dive bezel, and a clean dial showcasing the signature central Lacrima shape.
1962 Racing Chronograph
The 1962 Racing Chronograph is a retro sport timepiece inspired by vintage racing watches, featuring a meca-quartz movement and a clean dial layout.
417 ES
The Hanhart 417 ES is a faithful reproduction of the legendary German military pilot chronograph, famously worn by Steve McQueen, featuring a manual-wind movement and continuous fluted bezel.
Reef
The Reef is Formex's highly engineered professional dive watch, featuring tool-free interchangeable ceramic bezels, a COSC-certified movement, and 300m water resistance.
Journal & Analysis
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