40 – Black Dial | Steel Bracelet & Blue-Black Ceramic Bezel

Somebody who is rarely in one country for long is the person this 40mm watch was drawn up around, and it answers on two fronts at once: it keeps good time, and it keeps doing so year after year. No matter whether the light comes from a midday sun or a lamp beside a hotel bed, the rich black face gives its hours up without argument, helped by luminous hour markers and hands drawn with real confidence. Crowding was avoided; weighting was not.

A bezel in two-tone ceramic, blue against black, hands over a second zone for no effort at all, and the contrast it strikes against the face is a benefit thrown in. Steel here is both hardy and well polished, and the case rides without fuss on a bracelet of solid steel.

Long-haul weeks and unremarkable ones are handled with the same grace.