Baltic Releases First World Timer With Great Stone Dials; Nivada Grenchen's Chrysocolla Super Atlantic; New Beda’a Angles Guichets; Carl Suchy & Söhne Is Hipnotic; David Candaux's DC 6 Night Forest

Hey friends, welcome back to It’s About Time. The closer we are to Watches and Wonders, the better the releases get. I mean, there’s not a bad watch in the bunch today, right?

In this issue

• Baltic Releases It’s First World Timer With Some Pretty Unique Stone Dials

• Nivada Grenchen Teams Up With Retailer Chronofactum For A Chrysocolla Stone Dial Super Atlantic

• The Beda’a Angles Looks Like It Was Made For A Guichets Setup

• Carl Suchy & Söhne Just Might Hipnotize You With The Geometry Of The Waltz N°1 Hoffmann Edition

• David Candaux Releases The DC 6 Night Forest That Weighs Just A Bit Over A Feather

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Baltic Releases It’s First World Timer With Some Pretty Unique Stone Dials

Baltic is a French microbrand with an unusually sharp editorial eye for what the watch community actually wants. They did so with extremely popular divers, field watches and chronographs, all with not just a vintage inspiration, but also a very distinct style. And they continued to perfect their style when they released a couple of their watches with stone dials. Sure, everyone has a stone dial. But not a stone dial like Baltic. They used stones like pietrisite, dumortierite, and pink albite, stuff we have not seen before in microbrands, and they had a very unique look. Now, it’s time for them to release their first worldtimer, and they’re doing the same cool trick with nice looking stones.

The case is 37mm wide and 11.3mm thick, with a lug-to-lug of 45mm. Stainless steel 316L, vertical brushing on the lugs and horizontal on the case flanks, double-domed sapphire crystal with an internal anti-reflective coating. Surrounding the crystal is a broad 120-click bezel with a brushed unidirectional ceramic insert with 24 cities representing the 24 time zones. Water resistance is 100 meters. 37mm is not large, and I can’t wait to see this watch up close because that broad bezel must make for a small aperture for the dial. It’s a great look, I think.

But while the case is very cool, look at those dials. They are all unique, since each is made out of natural stone — Labradorite, Tiger Eye, and the wonderfully dramatic Sodalite. Surrounding the dial is a 24-hour scaled disc matched to the dial color and the ceramic bezel; it rotates at half the speed of the hour hand to handle worldtimer duties. Faceted sword hands and baton markers in BGW9 lume sit on top without fighting the stone, which is a harder act to pull off than it sounds.

Inside is the Soprod C125 GMT, an automatic movement with a 42-hour power reserve. The watch comes on an Italian calf leather strap or a choice of steel bracelet, either beads of rice or flat link.

The Baltic Heures du Monde is available now, limited to 200 pieces per dial, for now. Baltic says they will be become part of the permanent collection at a later date. Price is set at €1,300 on leather and €1,360 on a metal bracelet. See more on the Baltic website.

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Nivada Grenchen Teams Up With Retailer Chronofactum For A Chrysocolla Stone Dial Super Atlantic

Nivada Grenchen has been on a run with the Super Antarctic lately. Last year they released a pair of white-dial versions that finally brought the watch back to the kind of clean, icy look the Antarctic family is known for, and before that, the two Ace Jewelers collaborations proved there was serious appetite for limited Super Antarctics. Now, Nivada is getting back with the retailer Chronofactum for a limited edition that features a wonderful chrysocolla stone dial. In fact, 50 of them, as they are all wildly unique. It’s the same groovy dial we’ve seen in the F77 before.

The case is the standard Super Antarctic setup, which is no bad thing. It's stainless steel, 38mm wide and 12mm thick, with brushed and polished finishing throughout. A double-domed sapphire crystal sits on top, water resistance is 100 meters, and the lug-to-lug comes in at 45mm.

Chrysocolla is a copper-bearing mineral that tends toward blue-green, often mottled with darker veining, and frequently mistaken for turquoise. Because it's a natural stone, each dial will look slightly different — no two watches in this edition are the same. The rest of the dial layout follows the familiar Super Antarctic architecture: applied hour markers, matching hands, and lume at the indices and handset.

The movement is the Soprod P024, a capable clone of the ETA 2824-2 that beats at 4Hz and delivers a 38-hour power reserve. It's an honest workhorse and Nivada has been consistent about using it across the Super Antarctic line. The watch comes on a beads-of-rice steel bracelet

The Nivada Grenchen Super Antarctic Chrysokoll is a Chronofactum exclusive, limited to 50 pieces, each numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity. Price is set at €1,385, and I think that’s with my 25% VAT. See more on the Chronofactum website.

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The Beda’a Angles Looks Like It Was Made For A Guichets Setup

Beda'a has been building the Angles collection for under three years, and in that time it has become one of the more recognisable cases in independent watchmaking — octagonal, integrated lugs, three stepped levels. Every limited series sold out within a day, which just proves how beloved they are. The new Angles Guichets is the first to carry a complication, and also the first to enter the permanent collection rather than disappear after allocation. It’s also spot on with the guichet trend and it suits it absolutely perfectly, like it was originally designed to show time through small apertures.

The case is 34mm wide and 37mm tall, the same geometry as before. What's new is how thin it stays: 6.3mm, which is important since we’re introducing complications here. The case is still made out of 316L steel, and you can get it in an untreated steel of gold plated. You still get sapphire crystals, only they’re now tiny, covering the two arched apertures. Water resistance is 30 meters.

The face of the watch has a wonderful plate with vertical grooves cut into them, and you get two apertures with no traditional hands. The upper aperture has a 24-hour scale split into a day and night section, lacquered in dark and light shades. The lower aperture features the advancing disc for the minutes with a fixed arrow pointing to the correct minutes. The hours are indicated with a beautifully sculptured representation of the moon.

The movement is a modified Peseux/ETA 7001, hand-wound, with the gear train reworked by a Swiss partner to rotate once every 24 hours rather than 12. The 7001 has been around long enough to earn its reputation; it's slim, reliable, and here it keeps its 42-hour power reserve despite the modification. The strap is embossed calfskin with Beda'a's pin buckle.

The Beda’a Angles Guichets collection will be available this summer, according to the brands website, and it’s priced at CHF 1,800, regardless of the case color you choose. See more on the Beda’a website.

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Carl Suchy & Söhne Just Might Hipnotize You With The Geometry Of The Waltz N°1 Hoffmann Edition

Carl Suchy & Söhne is a Vienna-based independent that has built its small but serious collection around the Waltz N°1, a watch whose signature feature is a rotating disc at six o'clock that completes one full turn per minute. The Hoffmann Edition takes its cues from Josef Hoffmann, the Austrian architect and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte, whose philosophy of unifying ornament and construction into a single coherent system is about as fitting an inspiration for a watchmaker as you could hope to find.

The case is stainless steel, 41.5mm wide and 9.3mm thick, with a lug-to-lug of just 43mm. That’s an incredibly short length and it makes for a sensational wearing experience, unlike pretty much anything else at this size. The sapphire crystal has anti-reflective coating on both sides, and the case back is screwed and fully transparent. Water resistance is 30 meters, which is fine for a dress watch and nothing to pretend otherwise about.

The dial is silver and black, structured around a geometric grid of concentric lines. The numerals at 12, 3, 6, and 9 aren't applied on top of the surface — they grow out of the grid itself. It is incredibly unique and I can’t stop staring at how well it’s done. Slender black hands in black nickel sit flush with the composition, and the Waltzing Disc at six o'clock completes a rotation every 60 seconds.

The movement is the CSS-A1, developed with Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, measuring 30mm in diameter and 2.6mm tall, another surprising dimension: you don’t really see automatic movements this thin often. It beats at 21,600 vph and has a 48 hour power reserve. The movement is wound with a gold-plated micro rotor and it’s a beautifully skeletonized watch to look at. Among other finishes, you get perlage on both sides of the mainplate, hand-bevelled edges, diamond-polished countersinks. The watch comes on a black leather strap with a deployant clasp.

The Waltz N°1 Hoffmann Edition is available now and doesn’t seem to be limited. Price is set at CHF 19,450 before taxes.See more on the Carl Suchy & Söhne website.

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David Candaux Releases The DC 6 Night Forest That Weighs Just A Bit Over A Feather

David Candaux set up his atelier in Le Solliat — deep in the Vallée de Joux — in 2017, after years at Jaeger-LeCoultre and a career as a concepteur for other houses. The DC6 followed his debut DC1 and codified what his work is about: an asymmetric bassinet case, a 30° inclined flying tourbillon, and a crown that retracts flush at 6 o'clock and pops out with a press. Having seen the watches for a while in photos, I’ll admit I was somewhat indifferent towards them. But the moment I got my hands on one, everything changed. The watches have perfect proportions, the lightness is just otherworldly for such a complicated watch and it just blew me away. As did the price, but that’s kind of to be expected. Now, we’re getting a new version of the DC6, the Night Forest which exchanges the forged carbon case for a UD carbon and titanium one weighing just 45 grams.

The case is 45mm wide and 11.29mm thick, which is actually impressive for a watch with this much going on inside it. UD carbon — unidirectional, continuous fibres laid in precise strata — gives it a grain that shifts as the light moves across it, somewhere between wood and composite rather than the speckled randomness of forged carbon. Titanium is used for the lugs, internal bracing, and crown. Speaking of the crown, it looks like a gimmick, sitting at 6 o’clock facing the wearer and popping out with a press, but it’s actually incredibly fun. Nothing is bonded with adhesive; it's all mechanical assembly, something that’s not that common with composite materials. On the back you’ll find a domed sapphire crystal and on the front… two smaller domes that cover the tourbillon and the dial. Water resistance is 50 metres.

The dial layout is pure DC6: hours and minutes at 3, power reserve at 12, tourbillon doing double duty as seconds at 9. The base of the dial at 3 is domed titanium with a sunburst finish, anodised to a deep topaz green that Candaux describes as the color of an alpine lake. A smoked black edge is airbrushed around the perimeter. Applied numerals in silver powder appear to float within the dial, and a black-gold minute track frames the whole display. Surrounding those apertures is a plate that has a guilloché "Pointes du Risoux" motif — a reference to the ridge line visible from the Vallée.

The calibre H74 is in-house, developed and assembled in Le Solliat. Its bridges are made out of titanium, the entire movement sits tilted 3° relative to the case, and the tourbillon is inclined at 30°. Candaux's argument being that a permanently angled tourbillon averages out positional errors more efficiently than a flat one. The cage is black-treated titanium via micro-arc oxidation. The movement beats at 21,600 vph, and you get a power reserve 55 hours from twin coaxial barrels. Finishing includes hand-polished bevels, inward angles, and the brand's own "Côtes du Solliat." The strap is handmade black rubber with topaz green stitching and a Velcro closure.

The DC6 Night Forest is limited to eight pieces and priced at a cool CHF 248,000. See more on the David Candaux website.

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