Krayon Anywhere Only Watch 2023

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Only Watch 2023 : Art as an ode to Nature

The rhythms of the water, the reflections of the sky and sun on the surface of the sea, in myriad shades of blue, shining through in the currents, waves and tides... The one-off Anywhere Only Watch 2023 proposes an ideal of serene artistry and technical sophistication – time as an intimate connection with our blue planet.

With an absolute mastery of technique, materials and know-how, Krayon again shows its commitment to preserving the high level of craftsmanship which, for over four centuries, has defined high watchmaking and timepiece decoration. Is it not by cultivating these ancestral techniques, by reinterpreting them with a contemporary vision, that we can ensure they will endure far into the future?

For the 2023 Edition of Only Watch, Krayon invites us to a contemplation of the natural elements

Krayon reiterates its invitation to contemplate the natural elements, to take an inner journey, by reinterpreting the form and movement of a marvellous painting, Coastal Scene by the Belgian painter Théo van Rysselberghe. Magnificent in its simplicity and, paradoxically, in its detail, this painting, exhibited at the National Gallery in London as an example of the neo-impressionist movement, brings shapes and motion startlingly to life using the technique of pointillism.

Krayon had previously explored the technique of miniature painting – where each colour is deposited by hand in tiny cells hollowed out of the metal – to create a work of incredible refinement for the 2021 edition of Only Watch. This time, Krayon again keeps the colour blue and explores the very intricate and precise technique of pointillism, as inspired by Théo van Rysselberghe’s painting.

The artist’s perceptiveness with minute brushstrokes, the paint deposited in small, skilful touches, giving almost imperceptible reliefs to this ‘canvas dial’, the rich palette of a multitude of shades of blue, the reflection of the sky on the waves, the light caressing their surface, creating contrasts to reveal a myriad sparkles… In a masterfully controlled circular movement, the dial reveals an exceptional creation, honouring age-old techniques by calling on the rare specialists who still hold their secrets today.

The technical prowess of the movement and the artistic sensibility of the dial: this watch born of the vision of watch designer Rémi Maillat, founder of Krayon, keeps alive time-honoured Swiss traditions, while delighting connoisseurs and lovers of refinements that have become only too rare.

A hyper-complication around an ephemeris intimately linked to the wearer

With the tip of his pencil, Rémi Maillat, watchmaking engineer and founder of the brand, transforms unimagined concepts into real complexities of watchmaking art. His Anywhere creation indicates the length of the day and the time at which the sun rises and sets, while displaying the ephemeris at a point on the globe chosen personally by the wearer of the watch, placing them at the centre of a universal yet intimate watchmaking experience.

This emotional dimension of time and space, at the intersection of subjective and objective geography, is where Krayon lives. Its interpretation of time takes the form of a watch that goes beyond convention and habit. Like mornings and evenings, never the same, always experienced in a personal way.

An exceptional dial, delicately hand-painted in miniature

A unique piece created for the Only Watch 2023 charity auction, Anywhere Only Watch 2023 represents a 432-component ideal of serene artistry and technical sophistication. Following through on the Anywhere Only Watch 2021 Edition, its exceptional dial blends engineering prowess with contemporary artistic inspiration.

This year, in hues of a multitude of blues, colour enhances purpose on the Anywhere watch, like an invitation to contemplation in the time before the sun rises or sets, as it shines with a thousand flashes of light on the surface of the water. This magical moment when nature, in suspension, awaits or relinquishes the light.

For Only Watch 2023, KRAYON inaugurates the use of titanium to create a resolutely contemporary watch

Art as an ode to nature. Krayon celebrates the natural elements through Anywhere Only Watch 2023, a timepiece designed to beguile collectors and lovers of rare refinements in search of a singular complication – the indication of sunrises and sunsets, at the precise location chosen by the wearer, anywhere in the world.

If its ingenuity and engineering prowess already suffice to set apart this hyper-complication, a bespoke ephemeris intimately linked to its wearer, the modernity of a case made of grade 5 titanium and the refinement of its pointillist dial truly make it a one-of-a-kind watch. An elegant timepiece that once again demonstrates, not only through the highest degree of hand-finishing, all the expertise of the independent Swiss watchmaker.