Price excludes 9% GST for local Singapore buyers
Rémi Maillat is a French independent watchmaker and the founder of Krayon, known for its groundbreaking approach to complications. Rémi’s education background is automation engineering and specialized in microtechnology. Only later on that he specifically learned about watchmaking from the He-Arc Ingenierie.
Before starting his own brand Rémi went on to do an internship at Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier and then moved on to Cartier as a movement design engineer.
The name Krayon actually came from the word Crayon that means pencil. As Rémi believes that a successful concept is sketched with a tip of a pencil.
In 2017, Rémi introduced his first watch, Krayon Everywhere. It is incredibly complex and it has a clever complication that allows the wearer to mechanically calculate sunrise and sunset time based on latitude, longitude and timezone. It won the GPHG Innovation watch Prize in 2018.
Continuing the theme of the Everywhere, Krayon introduced the Anywhere in 2020. The Anywhere is simpler and much more sleek. It features a complication similar to the Everywhere, it displays sunrise and sunset time for a single fixed location. But it can also be changed by the manufacturer by a series of adjustment screws in the movement.
The case is very well proportioned at 39mm in diameter with 9.5mm thickness in 18K White Gold. It has many beautiful details such as the concave bezel, concave fluting on the edge of the lugs as well as bevels where the case band edge meet the bezel and case back.
The dial is simple but highly sophisticated. The main dial is blue with grid like pattern resembling a globe. The hands are mirror polished and the hour markers are frosted with a mirror finished “Y”. They both are modeled from the three-pointed “Y” of the Krayon logo.
It also has a simple calendar indicated on a sub-dial at 6 with two hands ; one indicating the day of the month and the other indicating the month.
And on the outside of the dial is a 24 hour indicator pointed by the Sun-shaped pointer with a day/night indicator differentiated by the different shade of blue; light blue for day-time and dark blue with stars for night-time. This day/night indication will move depending the time of the year that will show the actual sunrise and sunset of the location it is set to.
The Krayon Anywhere is powered by the Cal. C030 with over 430 components. It is a large movement at 35.4mm in diameter. At the bottom part of the movement is the complication side for the sunrise and sunset mechanism.
It has a rotating cam that makes one revolution every year. The rotation of the came will cause the U-shaped racks push against the bow-shaped sunrise and sunset racks that will change the sunrise and sunset display visually on the dial side.
The finishing of the movement is spectacular. The bridges are finished with a wave-shaped Cotes de Geneve with wide and rounded anglage. The countersinks, screws and the teeth of the ratchet wheel are mirror polished. The rotating cam is also strikingly shaped and finished with angle on its outer edges and combination of polished and brushed surface on top.
Price excludes 9% GST for local Singapore buyers
Rémi Maillat is a French independent watchmaker and the founder of Krayon, known for its groundbreaking approach to complications. Rémi’s education background is automation engineering and specialized in microtechnology. Only later on that he specifically learned about watchmaking from the He-Arc Ingenierie.
Before starting his own brand Rémi went on to do an internship at Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier and then moved on to Cartier as a movement design engineer.
The name Krayon actually came from the word Crayon that means pencil. As Rémi believes that a successful concept is sketched with a tip of a pencil.
In 2017, Rémi introduced his first watch, Krayon Everywhere. It is incredibly complex and it has a clever complication that allows the wearer to mechanically calculate sunrise and sunset time based on latitude, longitude and timezone. It won the GPHG Innovation watch Prize in 2018.
Continuing the theme of the Everywhere, Krayon introduced the Anywhere in 2020. The Anywhere is simpler and much more sleek. It features a complication similar to the Everywhere, it displays sunrise and sunset time for a single fixed location. But it can also be changed by the manufacturer by a series of adjustment screws in the movement.
The case is very well proportioned at 39mm in diameter with 9.5mm thickness in 18K White Gold. It has many beautiful details such as the concave bezel, concave fluting on the edge of the lugs as well as bevels where the case band edge meet the bezel and case back.
The dial is simple but highly sophisticated. The main dial is blue with grid like pattern resembling a globe. The hands are mirror polished and the hour markers are frosted with a mirror finished “Y”. They both are modeled from the three-pointed “Y” of the Krayon logo.
It also has a simple calendar indicated on a sub-dial at 6 with two hands ; one indicating the day of the month and the other indicating the month.
And on the outside of the dial is a 24 hour indicator pointed by the Sun-shaped pointer with a day/night indicator differentiated by the different shade of blue; light blue for day-time and dark blue with stars for night-time. This day/night indication will move depending the time of the year that will show the actual sunrise and sunset of the location it is set to.
The Krayon Anywhere is powered by the Cal. C030 with over 430 components. It is a large movement at 35.4mm in diameter. At the bottom part of the movement is the complication side for the sunrise and sunset mechanism.
It has a rotating cam that makes one revolution every year. The rotation of the came will cause the U-shaped racks push against the bow-shaped sunrise and sunset racks that will change the sunrise and sunset display visually on the dial side.
The finishing of the movement is spectacular. The bridges are finished with a wave-shaped Cotes de Geneve with wide and rounded anglage. The countersinks, screws and the teeth of the ratchet wheel are mirror polished. The rotating cam is also strikingly shaped and finished with angle on its outer edges and combination of polished and brushed surface on top.
The watch is in mint condition with some minor sign of wear. The movement runs and functions well at the time of testing.
Manufacturer : Krayon
Reference : C030-01
Model : Anywhere White Gold
Year : 2024
Case Size : 39mm
Material : 18K White Gold
Movement : Cal. C030 Hand Wound
Complication : Sunrise/Sunset Time Display
Bracelet/Strap : Leather Strap
Accessories : Original Presentation Box, Instruction Manual, Warranty Certificate
