Nuremberg No. 4
Glashütte, Germany
38 mm steel, sunburst silver dial, hand-stitched calf. 41-hour reserve.
€2,480
Gear Wind Up
Automatic since the first windGear
Gear
Wind Up
Fine gears. Grand composure.
Mechanical watches assembled by hand, wound by the motion of your own day. No battery, no charging cable, no notifications.
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About
Time was once something you carried, not something you lost
In the sixteenth century a locksmith in Nuremberg put a coiled spring where a falling weight had been, and the clock left the tower for the pocket. For four hundred years after that, keeping time meant a daily ritual: a few turns of a crown, a held breath, a mechanism answering back.
The automatic movement removed even that. A rotor swings on your wrist, the mainspring tightens, and the watch lives off the ordinary motion of a life.
We sell those movements to people with no time to spare. A phone tells you the hour. A watch tells you that hours are made of something — three hundred parts, escaping one second at a time.
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Three from the case
Broadcloth Chronometer
Le Locle, Switzerland
40 mm brushed steel bracelet, date at three, COSC certified.
€3,150
The Meridian
Kōfu, Japan
39 mm, micro-rotor, 0.4 mm indices applied by hand. 55-hour reserve.
€1,890
Time Tides
What the movement learned this decade
Three developments changing what an automatic watch can do between one wind and the next.
Tourbillon
Escapement in rotation
The escapement sits in a cage that turns once a minute, so gravity pulls on it from every direction in turn and the errors cancel. Invented for pocket watches, now light enough — under 0.3 grams in the newest flying cages — to sit in a wristwatch you would actually wear to work.
Powermatic 80
Tissot · 80-hour reserve
A slower balance and a longer mainspring stretch the reserve from the usual two days to more than three. Take the watch off on Friday evening and it is still running, still accurate, when you pick it up on Monday.
Silicon hairspring
Antimagnetic by material
Etched silicon replaces the steel spiral at the heart of the balance. It ignores magnetic fields, needs no lubrication, and holds its shape through temperature swings — the quietest revolution on this list, and the one you never see.