Watches

A deep ruby dial in a clean steel case: warm, quietly vintage, entirely composed. Aksla Jubileum is Von Doren's tenth-anniversary watch, drawn from Mount Aksla and the Art Nouveau city of Ålesund, where it all began. A gold-plated Swiss Ronda 715 beats beneath double-domed sapphire, and the solid caseback carries an engraving of Brosundet, the strait running through the old town. Only 75 pieces in ruby red, each individually numbered within the 300-piece Jubilee series.

Emerald green set in polished steel: a dial that holds the eye without asking for it. Aksla Jubileum marks Von Doren's tenth year and returns to where it all began, Mount Aksla, overlooking the Art Nouveau rooftops of Ålesund. Beneath double-domed sapphire runs a gold-plated Swiss Ronda 715; on the solid caseback, Brosundet, the narrow strait at the city's heart, is engraved in steel. Only 75 pieces in this colourway, each individually numbered within the 300-piece Jubilee series.

A 20mm round charm in polished stainless steel, clean and unadorned, threaded onto a satin cord. The simplest way to wear a watch as if it were jewellery.

Swiss Ronda quartz inside, a sapphire crystal on top, and a cord you can change whenever the mood does. Size XS–S, made for a slimmer wrist.

A 20mm round charm in polished stainless steel, its bezel paved with lab-grown diamonds. Thread it onto a satin cord and the sparkle stays quiet, catching the light only when the wrist moves.

Swiss Ronda quartz inside, a sapphire crystal on top, and a cord you can change whenever the mood does. Size XS–S, made for a slimmer wrist.

A 20mm round charm in 18K gold plating, plain and polished, threaded onto a satin cord. Small enough to disappear on the wrist until the light finds it.

Swiss Ronda quartz inside, a sapphire crystal on top, and a cord you can change whenever the mood does. Size M–L.

A 20mm round charm in 18K gold plating, its bezel paved with lab-grown diamonds. Thread it onto a satin cord and it sits at the wrist like a piece of jewellery that happens to tell the time.

Swiss Ronda quartz inside, a sapphire crystal on top, and a cord you can change whenever the mood does. Size M–L.

Smiths × AV86 · Limited to 67 pieces

Raqeeqa. 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 one who wears it, man or woman. 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.

The purest reading of the shape. Polished steel, a clean white dial, numerals and hands with nothing to hide behind.

Without gold to soften it, you see the case for what it is: sculpted lines, a framed bezel, a domed crystal that bends the light at its edges. Thirty-three millimetres, hand-wound, on dark grey leather. The one that goes with everything and suits anyone — and means it.