Spinnaker And seconde/seconde/ Bring Back All 50 Phantoms For Year Four

Every October since 2023, Spinnaker and seconde/seconde/ have put out a Halloween watch. The first one, the Fleuss Automatic 50 Phantoms, was a parody of the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms with 50 lumed ghosts on the dial and “No Feet” printed at 6 o’clock. It was limited to 670 examples at $445 and sold out almost immediately. That was the year Romaric André, the banker-turned-customizer behind seconde/seconde/, was releasing a new collaboration nearly every week, and I was getting pretty tired of all the collabs coming out. The Spinnaker was the one watched that made me completely change my mind on him. It was fantastic. The 2024 follow-up gave us the Phantom Classic and the No App, which moved the ghosts onto the bezel as a nod to Blancpain’s No Rad, and hid the date so you could only see it under UV light. Last year the two dropped the Blancpain joke for the 47+3 Phantoms, with three ghosts hidden on the case and the rotor and a wavy bezel I liked more than I expected to. This year the 50 Phantoms name is back, the wavy bezel remains, and you get two variants, the Crazy and the Quiet.

The case is the familiar Fleuss at 40mm wide and the two variants come in at two different thicknesses – the Crazy is 12.15mm thick and the Quiet comes in a bit thinner at 11.8mm, and you'll see later why. The bezel is now white ceramic, polished, with the same rippled edge as last year, which is supposed to be the hem of a bedsheet ghost. Around back, two oval display windows turn the caseback into a pair of ghost eyes. And they light up at night. You get a sapphire crystal on top, a screw-down crown and 100 meters of water resistance, down from 150 meters last year.

The difference between the two watches is all on the layered dial. The Crazy edition prints its 50 ghosts in green, yellow, blue and white, so you see all of them in daylight, and they’re lumed for the dark. On the Quiet edition, during daylight you only see the ghost eyes scattered around the dial. The full ghosts never appear, but the eyes do glow in the dark. Love that thing.

Inside is a Miyota 9039 automatic, which beats at 4Hz with a 42-hour power reserve. Both versions come on a jubilee-style steel bracelet, plus a white perforated rubber strap and an orange striped fabric strap in the box. Btw, the box is pretty cool, with a glass display case for the watch and a UV torch to light up the ghosts even in daylight.

The Quiet edition is limited to 850 examples and the Crazy to 1,500, both priced at $600. The watches go on sale 16th October, 6:30 am CEST, and if previous editions are anything to use as a baseline, these will go very fast. See more on the Spinnaker website.