Angles DiscOne 39.

 

Oracle Time: Angles DiscOne 39

Let’s address the elephant in the room first: the Angles DiscOne 39 does look a bit like an Otsuka Lotec, with its exposed discs, bridgework and bolted-down plates. Granted, there’s a big difference between the two, but the industrial vibe is there, and that’s no bad thing when Jiro Katayama’s watches are near impossible to get hold of and this one costs a few hundred dollars. There are no hands at all: a jumping hour disc on the left clicks over on the hour, a minute disc on the right turns continuously, and both sit raised above the dial so you can watch the mechanics do their thing.

The original Disc One wore big at 41mm and 13mm thick, and founder Roy Chan has clearly been reading the comments, because the DiscOne 39 is a far more wearable 39mm and 10mm. It comes in Raw Steel or a warm Champagne Alloy, each limited to 500 pieces, and a 25% launch discount brings a genuinely unusual mechanical display to around £300.

Price and Specs:

Model: Angles DiscOne 39

Case: 39mm diameter x 10mm thickness (excluding crystals), 316L stainless steel (Raw Steel or Champagne Alloy), double-domed sapphire crystal

Dial: Brushed raw steel with raised hour and minute discs, black Super-LumiNova numerals

Water resistance: 50m (5 ATM)

Movement: Miyota calibre 8215, automatic, with in-house jumping hour module

Frequency: 21,600 vph (3 Hz)

Power reserve: 42h

Functions: Jumping hours, minutes

Strap: Italian vegetable-tanned leather with steel buckle

Price: $539 (approx. £400), 25% launch discount applied in cart; limited to 500 pieces per colourway

More details at Angles.