THE CLASSIFIEDS (BUT NOT REALLY)
Volume 2 · July 13 - August 2, 2025
You won’t find full specs here. You will find intent, posture, subtext. These are horological classifieds for new releases from independents — announcements, invitations, provocations — interpreted for the collector’s subconscious.
Divers Sixty-Five Chronograph 40mm
Oris, Hölstein. CHF 4,000-4,200.
Borrows its soul from 1965, updates the engine for 2025. Ocean-green aluminum bezel that deepens like Swiss forest shadows. Vintage pump pushers ache to be pressed. Silver sunray dial catches light like morning frost — deceptively calm until you need those 30 minutes.
1816
Louis Moinet
Saint-Blaise. Titanium. Manual-wind.
A ghost from the observatory re-emerges, more bone than lace. Born to time the stars. Now rebuilt to time your hour of glory, or its precise collapse. Quiet but unmissable. No scrolling hands. Just jumps. Just purpose. Just legacy.
SUB 750T Clive Cussler
DOXA
Limited to 94 pieces. Water-resistant to 750m.
Wears like fiction. Tracks like fact. Slimmed for stealth, orange for signal. Found somewhere between a sunken galleon and a dog-eared paperback — salt-stained, steel-cased, and born for the unknown. The hero dies with his watch on. This one writes the ending.
Dual Time Lime – Summer Edition
Speake Marin
Geneva–St. Tropez. 10 or 18 pieces, depending how bold you are.
Built for time zones, but wears like a sundial. Blacked-out titanium meets lime-lacquer hands, spun with heat, spin, and mid-July hallucinations. The heart-shaped hour hand knows no borders. Neither do you.
Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 TOP GUN Miramar
IWC Schaffhausen
Limited to 1000 pieces (!). Ceramic in flight blue.
Ceramic the color of naval T-shirts. Built for dogfights, worn for long layovers. Column-wheel precision behind a dial as legible as a command manual. Punch the chrono. Flip the strap. Replace nothing but your coordinates.
Nereide Ti-Damascus
Venezianico
Limited to 500 pieces. Damascus titanium dial. Swiss heart.
Forged like a myth. Colored like a dream. Each dial a fingerprint of fire and fold, titanium alchemy in motion. You won’t find two alike — nor will time ever look the same twice. For those who dive deep, and want the ocean to answer back in poetry.
Chief Date Royal Purple
Favre Leuba
Swiss-built. 68-hour power reserve. Now in full bloom.
Cushion-cased and unbothered, it doesn’t shimmer — it radiates. Royal Purple, not for ceremony, but for command. A sunburst dial in defiance of gray days. Legacy-laced, mirror-polished, and sharp as a crown. Not a revival. A reminder.
Graphic Engraved Piece Unique 2025
ROBOT
Czech Republic. One of one. Hand-engraved steel.
More tattoos than timepiece. A single watch, carved entirely by hand, as if etched from a dream in sandblasted steel. Movement by Eterna, soul by Josef Zajíček. For the collector who doesn’t want rare — but singular.
MB Meteor – Orange Barrel
Bremont
Grade 2 titanium. Re-ejected, not reissued.
A cockpit on your wrist. Cerakote-clad, test-pilot proven. The orange barrel isn’t just back — it’s burnished into memory, refueled with 68 hours of quiet defiance. Built with Martin-Baker. Worn like you mean it. Pull cord not included.
Profondo
U-BOAT
Limited to 100 pieces. 10,000 meters. 27 mm thick.
Less diver, more descent module. Titanium. Aged dial. Domed sapphire like a pressure dome. Forged to go where submarines crack. Each dial oxidized by hand — every one a different wreck. You don’t wear this to tell time. You wear it to defy it.
Author: Sergio Galanti