Ice blue, on a president bracelet.
The dial is the palest blue that still counts as a colour, set under a fluted bezel that throws light every time your wrist moves. The president bracelet underneath is the heavy, rounded kind that sits flat on the arm and feels like more watch than you expected.
It is a dress watch that never reads as stuffy. Wear it under a jacket, wear it with a shirt untucked on a Sunday, and it works both times. Somebody will notice the bracelet before they notice anything else about it.
It winds itself
Inside is a genuine Japanese automatic movement. No battery, ever; it winds itself off the motion of your arm, and any watchmaker on earth can service it.
Around it: a stainless steel case in your choice of 39mm or 41mm, a sapphire crystal that shrugs off keys and door frames, and that fluted bezel catching whatever light is in the room.
| Movement |
Japanese automatic |
| Case |
Stainless steel, 39mm or 41mm |
| Dial |
Ice blue |
| Bezel |
Fluted |
| Bracelet |
President-style |
| Crystal |
Sapphire |
| Water resistance |
Everyday wear (splash-resistant, not dive-rated) |
What this price actually buys
The watch this design echoes sells for more than two hundred times this price, and a routine service on it costs more than this entire watch. Here, one price buys the whole thing: a genuine Japanese automatic under sapphire, built to order for you and photographed before it ships.
Someone will ask. Here is your answer. It is a homage. The movement is named in the specs above. You paid for the watch, not the name.
Say it exactly like that. There is no apology in it, because none is owed.
Pick your size above and start your build. You will get photos of your finished watch before it ships. Then you will get the watch.