In 2007 when Kevin bought his MIH watch in Lucerne at the Embassy store, Beat Weinmann showed us an incredible prototype of Ludwig Oechslin’s watch concept featuring an intuitive calendar display. The brand is now called ochs und junior and that particular watch is the anno cinquanta.
The anno cinquanta’s annual calendar employs a system of orange dots to indicate the date, month and weekday. The dots appear in circles of apertures, and understanding the display soon becomes second nature. Conventional annual calendar mechanisms can incorporate anything in the order of 40 individual components. Ludwig Oechslin needs just three!
His concepts are one-of-a-kind, intelligent watches rooted in proven traditions. When the time comes for series production, Peter Cantieni machines the cases in a variety of metals, and Paul Gerber fits them with his exclusive self-winding calibre. The guys don’t polish the watch cases – they prefer to make them as accurately as possible, then to leave them with the (very slight) imperfections that reflect the craftsman’s artisanry. After that, your…my wrist…

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