Watches

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."

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.

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.

Forged carbon, shaped by pressure and chance — no two cases ever wear the same pattern. Inside beats a self-developed, motor-driven movement that tells time like nothing else: light on the wrist, bold in presence. The MS1001 is mechanical artistry rebuilt for the present — architectural, unconventional, entirely its own.

A sunburst dial in warm Havana brown — the colour of aged tobacco and old leather, shifting with every turn of light. Soft and earthy in shadow, rich and honeyed when the sun reaches it. Vintage warmth, quietly Norwegian, worn on the wrist.

A black dial that turns electric green in the dark, lit by C7 Super-LumiNova® beneath a glass-box sapphire crystal. The 316L steel case is water-resistant to 150 m with a screw-down crown, the automatic movement assembled in France — finished on a black "Tropic" rubber strap.

A colour that refuses to go unnoticed. The Skindiver Automatic's vivid yellow dial glows in white BGW9 Super-LumiNova® under a glass-box sapphire crystal, set in a 316L steel case water-resistant to 150 m. Automatic, assembled in France, on a matching yellow "Tropic" rubber strap.

An automatic diver with a glossy blue dial that lights up in white BGW9 Super-LumiNova® beneath a glass-box sapphire crystal. The 316L steel case is water-resistant to 150 m with a screw-down crown, the movement assembled in France — worn here on a blue "Tropic" rubber strap.