On the Mandetbrote Orbital, the minute hand rides on a geared, folding arm that stretches out and draws back as it follows a looping track around the dial, while the hour turns on a disc in a window at six o'clock. Long-listed for the 2025 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, the design gives you a new picture of the time with every glance. In Blue Kiss, a deep blue dial with a radiating texture meets a red-and-white hour disc, and Swiss Super-LumiNova lights the markers after dark.

Turn it over and the sapphire exhibition caseback shows a Japanese Miyota 9015 base carrying the orbital module, with 24 jewels, 28,800 vibrations per hour and around 42 hours of power reserve. The 41.2mm case in 316L stainless steel sits beneath a sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating and is water resistant to 50 meters (5 ATM). A navy leather strap tapers from 20mm to 18mm. A complication you will find yourself watching as often as reading.