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anOrdain Model 1 Blue Fumé
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Model 1 Blue Fumé

$1,950

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Handmade in Glasgow, the world's first fumé enamel dial fades from vivid blue at centre to deep indigo at the edge — dial artistry no major brand can match. The cartography-inspired compass-needle hands and Scottish Highlands typography make this utterly unique.

  • enamel
  • fumé
  • handmade
  • dress
  • automatic

About anOrdain

Scotland · est. 2018

In a Glasgow workshop, a small team spent three years just learning how to fire vitreous enamel before selling a single watch. The result is the only watchmaker in the world producing hand-enamelled fumé dials at this price — each one kiln-fired at 800°C, each one subtly unique, with a depth of color that photographs simply cannot capture. The typography is custom, drawn by an in-house type designer, and the whole watch feels like it came from a design studio rather than a factory.

What makes anOrdain matter: they took a dying haute-horlogerie craft — grand feu enamel, normally a $20k+ feature — and made it the entire identity of a sub-$3k watch. Nobody else does this.

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