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Not sure if the watchmaker's line-up changed in 4 years passed, but here's a nearly identical watch, the first hit in their "customized" category - https://www.ochsundjunior.swiss/my-ochs-und-junior/?watch=11...

At the very least this makes author's watch rather less unique and custom than described. Perhaps it was an one of a kind back in 2020, but it's not anymore.

The cost is around $9K.



OP’s watch appears to be a customized variant of the annual calendar LIGHT, which was introduced in 2016. The 36mm case is unusual, not one of the standard sizes, but O&J has been willing to do 36mm cases on request since ~2010 with certain models. So—like all O&J watches prior to 2020 or so¹—the cosmetics are fully customized, but the mechanism is shared with other O&J watches².

¹ since then they also have a collection of non-customizable watches

² this undersells it a bit; most O&J watches (like mine!) are "just" customized realizations of a set of basic designs (which is a good thing, IMO, because those designs work better than what most buyers would come up with). But many of those designs were developed collaboratively in response to specific customer requests. I was in the workshop in 2018 and saw an early prototype of what became the day/night watch (https://www.ochsundjunior.swiss/watches/day-night/) in development for the customer who had proposed it. If you skim through their blog, you'll find lots of interesting projects done for customers with varying degrees of customization (I really love this day/night done with no conventional face: https://www.ochsundjunior.swiss/dirks-day-night/)


It isn't super clear from first read, but that design is not by the author, but by the company. He gave them specs for what he wished for in a design, and they came up with a design.

I guess they now own and can continue to sell that design. They've gone all in on online customization at least: https://www.ochsundjunior.swiss/customizer-1-1/?watch=112&cu...


There's a Portuguese watch company using this same style since 2016: https://isotopewatches.com/products/isotope-gmt-zero-degrees

I love their timepieces.


This company is the one he mentioned he worked with to create the watch. He gave them the specifications and they made the watch.

This is not a hand-made watch. It's just bespoke made to his specification and he never states its unique and limited edition 1 of 1.

This does however make it incredibly custom as stated as he gave the specifications, and the company made it for him, literally customisation I'd say!




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