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STR — Smiths × Tokei Ronin

United We Are · A tribute to the Smiths community in the United Arab Emirates

Some tributes are spoken. This one is worn. United We Are is the opening chapter of STR — Smiths × Tokei Ronin — a limited run of thirty pieces, created as a gift from us to the Smiths family across the Emirates. At its heart sits an artisan black aventurine dial: a captured fragment of night sky, scattered with countless points of light that deepen and shift as they meet the sun. Upon it rests the United Arab Emirates' official emblem of 1973 — applied by hand and finely moulded for this project alone — beside a single applied Hindu-Arabic ٧, drawn for the seven emirates and the unbreakable bond between them. Thirty watches. Seven emirates. One quiet promise: united, we are.

Bnaider Watch

Warm as the sand along Bnaider's shoreline at golden hour, the 1956 Marine Automatic carries the calm confidence of a true diver's watch. A scratch-resistant ceramic bezel, 200m water resistance, and a dependable Japanese automatic movement — built for the coast, refined for everyday life. Vintage soul, modern grit.

Smiths × AV86 · Limited to 67 pieces

Raqeeqa — رقيقة. Delicate. A word too often said as though it were an apology. This watch says it as a fact, and holds your gaze while it does.

The idea began at Smiths: a watch about self-confidence — the kind that never raises its voice, because it has no need to. We took AV86's 33mm Capri, the small, softly squared mechanical, and gave it a burgundy dial that glows like pomegranate under the light and sinks toward black as it nears six. The hours are written in polished, applied Eastern Arabic numerals — the way we write them at home. Below centre, a black sub-seconds register cut with fine concentric grooves turns quietly, and beneath it sits a single faceted crystal: one point of light where a six would be, because one is enough.

Inside, a hand-wound movement. A few turns of the crown each morning and it runs for thirty-nine hours — a small ritual that belongs only to the woman who wears it. Polished steel, a domed sapphire crystal, a dark cabochon at the crown, and burgundy lizard-grain leather to carry the dial's colour around the wrist.

Sixty-seven pieces, unnumbered — none of them first, none of them last. Conceived and designed by Smiths in Kuwait, realised with AV86 of Copenhagen. Caseback engraving is complimentary, should you want your own words on it.

Duke Watch – Large Model

A quiet nod to the 1980s, when watches spoke louder with less. The rectangular case sits confidently on the wrist — bold without trying, elegant without excess. Swiss precision, sapphire clarity, and an ultra-slim profile for the man who understands that true presence needs no announcement.

Kuwait keeps time in company. A watch crosses a table, a story arrives before it does, and a dozen opinions are offered before the coffee has cooled.

Legacy of Time is the first coffee table book written entirely by a Kuwaiti collector and printed in Kuwait — Sulaiman Khuraibet's record of a community that grew up around the wrist. What we wear and why. Which pieces we chase, and which we quietly let go. How taste here moved from gold to steel, from the showroom to the group chat.

Written from inside the community rather than about it, it reads less like a catalogue and more like a decade kept on paper — the trades, the arguments, the first watch, the one that got away.

Two editions: printed in Arabic and in English. Choose your language above before adding to cart.

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A classic rally-style strap in premium FKM rubber — drilled holes channel the spirit of 1960s racing watches while keeping the wrist cool and comfortable. Soft to the touch, built to last, and equally at home on a dress watch, a diver, or anything in between.

Datejust 36 – Lapis Lazuli

A genuine lapis lazuli stone dial, cut and set with an elegant vintage restraint — deep ultramarine veined with pyrite, so no two dials are ever alike. The stone that once ground the blue of illuminated manuscripts, now read at a glance. Housed in a 36 mm stainless steel case with a fluted bezel and classic proportions. Limited to just 20 pieces.

Movement: Seiko NH Automatic Functions: Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Date

Case: Stainless Steel Diameter: 36 mm Bezel: Fluted Crystal: Sapphire with Cyclops Lens Water Resistance: 100 m

Dial: Genuine Lapis Lazuli Stone, Vintage Register. Jubilee, Five-Piece Links

Limited Edition: 20 Pieces

From About Vintage's tenth-anniversary chapter. A gradient blue dial with fine texture that shifts through the day, framed by day and month subdials, a 24-hour indicator, and a date window at 4:30. An automatic movement rests beneath a domed sapphire crystal — real complication, quietly worn.