Seasonal Picks

On the second of August, Kuwait does not celebrate. It remembers — a day that wounded the country, and the same day that belongs to its heroes: those who were lost, and those still among us.

This is the first Arabic edition in William Wood's history — the only watchmaker in the world building timepieces from decommissioned firefighting material, and a house whose every release has been a salute to those who stand in the front line. Smiths has been its first partner in the Arab world for five years. That a Kuwaiti company should be the one to bring this piece home felt inevitable.

It takes the form of a diver because Kuwait is a country of sea and pearl-diving — and because the sea teaches what this people already know: patience, a long breath, and the certainty of surfacing again. The mirror-silver dial is heat-treated to graduate from the blue of the sea below to the clarity of the sky above, ringed by applied Arabic numerals in sunburst blue. At its centre sits the Kuwaiti boom — the dhow once carried on the nation's currency — with the word الكويت engraved and gilded at its heart.

The crown holds brass stamped from a retired firefighter's helmet. The strap is cut from genuine upcycled fire hose. Nothing on this watch sits far from the story it tells.

Fifty pieces. Not simply a watch for the wrist — something to carry.

Caseback commemorative coin — after the words of the late Amir, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah: "From Kuwait we begin, and to Kuwait we return."

An STR Project

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.

Amalfi — named for the Italian coast where white stone meets blue water. A white panda dial on the GranTurismo Chronograph 39 platform: the Seiko VK64 meca-quartz pairing quartz accuracy with a mechanical chronograph module — true sweeping chrono hand, instant flyback reset. 39 mm of 316L steel under domed sapphire, water-resistant to 100 m, on Naga's hand-finished integrated snake-scale bracelet with hidden butterfly deployant.

You will receive the watch with a one strap only

DEUX MERS × SMITHS (A Smiths Design)

Horizon Limited An Exclusive Design, Only at Smiths

Deux Mers takes its name from the meeting of two seas — and Horizon is the moment that meeting becomes visible. A geometric dial in teal and gold, stepped like layers of light across water, is framed by Eastern Arabic hour markers and a pair of quiet, elegant hands.

This edition was designed by Smiths alone. It exists nowhere else in the world.

Every piece ships on a remarkable FKM rubber strap, cast in a colour developed exclusively for Smiths, by Smiths. No other watch, from any brand, wears this shade.

Limited to fifty pieces worldwide.

© 2026 Smiths. All rights reserved.

Datejust 36 – Camel Salmon Fumée

A first of its kind. A camel salmon fumée dial — warm desert sand deepening to dusk at the edges — set against turquoise Indian-Arabic numerals at 12, 6, and 9. Desert and sea on one dial. The sunray-finished gradient catches light with every movement of the wrist. Housed in a 36 mm stainless steel case with a fluted bezel and classic proportions. Limited to just 25 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: Camel Salmon Fumée with Sunray Finish Numerals: Turquoise Indian-Arabic at 12, 6, 9 Bracelet: Jubilee, Five-Piece Links

Limited Edition: 25 Pieces

A hand-wound mechanical watch honouring the last golden age before quartz. A sand-and-black dial with vintage character, a small-seconds register, and a 39mm steel case beneath domed sapphire crystal. For those who enjoy the small ritual of winding each morning.

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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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