Here are the broad strokes on our latest collaboration with Moritz Grossmann. It’s a 37mm in diameter Benu timepiece, just like our previous watch with the wonderful Glashütte based brand, featuring the ravishing, hand-finished three-fifths-plate caliber 102.1 with hand-engraved escape wheel and balance cocks, and flame-purpled screws. It features a sterling silver guilloché à main Kari Voutilainen dial, made using a vintage engine-turning machine. This is paired with an 18K white gold case and a kudu leather strap in gorgeous anemone. As an extra step, we’ve also matched the watch with one of the most stunning straps I’ve ever set eyes on — a matte Himalayan alligator strap made by the very cool Delugs company here in Singapore. The resulting timepiece that I’ve nicknamed “Silver Bullet” is just epic.
Now here comes the hard part — we were only able to make six examples of the watch.
Six watches is not a lot, particularly when the watch is a stunning work in monochromatic nuance. So, instead of getting straight into the details of the Benu 37 ‘Silver Bullet’, I want to take this opportunity to explain why I love Moritz Grossmann so much.
Each time I hold a Moritz Grossmann watch in my hand, I am struck by the pure straightforward beauty of the movement — the perfect expression of the brand’s eponymous spiritual father who championed the creation of “simple but mechanically perfect watches.” I am always charmed by the brand’s quirky yet mechanically efficient innovations such
