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The Daily —
October 28, 2026
Hand-picked independent and microbrand watches worth a closer look — the same five every member woke up to.
TRES colores Automatic watch 44mm
€1,490
Botta Design's TRES colores is a 44mm black DLC-coated steel watch just 8.9mm thin, built in Germany around a hand-adjusted Swiss Sellita SW 200-1 automatic. Its black dial is broken only by three coloured hands in red, blue and yellow. A double-domed anti-reflective sapphire crystal and a sapphire caseback showing the movement complete a fully screwed three-piece case.
Alpiner Extreme Regulator Automatic
$2,695
The Alpiner Extreme Regulator Automatic splits time into separate displays: a central minute hand, an hours counter at 10 o'clock and small seconds at 6 o'clock on a white luminous dial. The black stainless steel case measures 41mm, with a screw-down crown, sapphire crystal and 200m of water resistance. Behind the engraved transparent case back runs the AL-650 automatic, based on the SW461, with 31 jewels and a…