The Grade 5 titanium case and integrated bracelet carry some pretty special hand-polished finishing that adds significant gleam to the lightweight metal, which, when unfinished, has a more matte grey presentation. The dial design defies the sporty appearance with an off-center small-seconds counter with artfully radiating lines reaching out across the dial surface, and, in this example, the coppery dial color itself is just an elegant winner, all around.
In another sportiness-as-chic detail, the crown that manages the robust in-house movement with Roman Gauthier’s signature snail cam stop-seconds mechanism and propriety regulator, is raked up to the 2 o’clock position. In this case, raked equals elegantly “rakish.”
Price: USD 51’090
Trilobe Nuit Fantastique Lumiere
In the case of the Nuit Fantastique Lumiere from Parisian watchmaker Trilobe, the out-of-the-box horological elan only serves to enhance the sophisticated appeal of the 40.5mm titanium timepiece (with, again, some extra shimmer to the metal’s finishing.).
A “hand-less” outer chapter ring tallies the hour using Trilobe’s own club-shaped logo that rotates on its own dial plate. A figure 8-shaped combination of a pop-up minute indicator, that rides on top, and a seconds wheel, at bottom, both using the top aperture’s arrow-shaped indicator, is elegantly off-set to the left side of the dial to throw abundant attention on the clean dial surface. An exclusive micro-rotor X-Centric calibre spins the wheels on this sans-hands marvel, which will certainly ignite some “how the heck do you tell with that?” discussions with those in-the-know at the party.
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