Dubai Watch Week Picks

Now that Dubai Watch Week 2023 is over, we offer a quick look at some novelties that stood out to us the most and that we hadn’t yet had the opportunity to deal with properly, and without any order criteria, let’s look at them.

Ulysse Nardin The Freak One OPS

First launched in 2001 and chosen as the winner of the Iconic Watch prize at this year’s GPHG awards, the watch maintains its futuristic characteristics without a crown and with a movement that also works as hands.

Ulysse Nardin has now launched a stealth version dressing the watch with a titanium case and a carbon bezel, while the dial is dressed in khaki green whose tone also extends to its rubber strap.

Ulysse Nardin, Freak One OPS, 2403-500-8A/3A. Khaki-green dial, Black DLC titanium case with Carbonium bezel, 44 mm diameter, sapphire crystal, 30 meters water resistance, khaki-green rubber strap. Calibre UN-240, automatic movement,  hour, minutes, 21,600 Vph, 15 jewels. CHF 63,000.

Doxa Sub 300β Seddiqi Limited Edition

Doxa, in partnership with the founders of the event, Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons launches a new variant of its Sub 300β line, in a limited edition of 50 pieces, an exclusive to Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons.

The watch maintains all the technical and aesthetic characteristics of its peers, with the exception of the dial which now comes in blue mother-of-pearl matching the bezel insert and attached to a white rubber strap.

Doxa, Sub 300β Seddiqi Limited Edition, 830.10.211.10-SE4. Blue mother-of-pearl dial, stainless steel case, 42.50 mm diameter, 11.95 mm thickness, sapphire crystal, 300 meters water resistance, beads-of-rice steel bracelet and white FKM rubber strap. Calibre Sellita SW200-1, automatic movement,  hour, minutes, seconds, date, 28,800 Vph, 26 jewels, 38 hours of power reserve. Limited edition of 50 pieces, € 2,980.

H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Small Seconds Micro-Rotor

The new variant of the Streamliner Small Seconds comes with some very interesting new features, starting with the appealing blue enamel-grained dial, which also comes with a gradient effect, the tone of which intensifies from the centre to the outside.

Its dimensions have also been reduced, now embracing a case measuring 39mm in diameter and 10.90mm thick, largely thanks to its new internal movement, the In-house HMC 500 micro-rotor, which operates at a frequency of 3 Hz and offers 3 days of power reserve.

H. Moser & Cie, Streamliner Small Seconds Micro-Rotor. Blue dial, Stainless steel case, 39 mm diameter,  10.90 mm thickness, sapphire crystal, 120 meters water resistance, integrated stainless steel bracelet. Calibre HMC500, automatic movement,  hour, minutes, small seconds, 21,600 Vph, 26 jewels, 72 hours of power reserve. CHF 29,900.

Frederique Constant Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar & The Avener Editions

There are three Frederique Constant releases, and starting with the ‘simple’ ones, these are two limited editions of 432 pieces each launched in partnership with the French musician and producer Avener, with the basic time and date functions, which stand out for their its dials that try to recreate the sound waves of the studio monitors in blue in the steel version and in grey in the version with a case with black sandblasted DLC coating.

The other novelty is also a limited edition of 35 pieces of the Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar that comes in a 41mm rose gold case and with a blue dial.

Frederique Constant, Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar & Highlife Automatic x The Avener, FC-975BL4NH9 (tourbillon), FC-303TA3NH6B (Avener steel), FC-303TA3DNH6 (Avener black). Blue (tourbillon) and black (Avener) dial, 18k rose gold (tourbillon) and stainless steel (Avener) case, 41 mm diameter x 12.65 mm thickness (tourbillon) and 39 mm diameter x 10.34 mm thickness (Avener), sapphire crystal, 30 meters (tourbillon) and 100 meters (Avener) water resistance, blue alligator (tourbillon) and stainless steel/black rubber (Avener) strap. Calibre FC-975 (tourbillon) and FC-303 (Avener), automatic movement, hour, minutes, seconds, date (Avener), perpetual calendar (tourbillon), tourbillon (tourbillon), 38 hours of power reserve. Limited edition of 35 pieces (tourbillon) and 432 pieces each (Avener), USD 48,995 (tourbillon), USD 2,295 (Avener steel), USD 2,495 (Avener black).

Ressence Type 1° DX3

It is the epilogue of the three collaborations with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons that appears once again in the form of a limited edition of 35 pieces.

The new Type 1º DX3, like previous editions, comes with the same Arabic mosaic pattern on the dial that now receives a thin layer of rose gold, which is filled with Super-LumiNova, which glows green in the dark.

On the outside is the 42.70 mm titanium case that shapes the watch and houses the modified ETA 2892 automatic movement that comes with a 36-hour power reserve.

Ressence, Type 1º DX3. German silver dial with a rose gold coated and filled with Super-LumiNova, Grade 5 titanium case, 42.70 mm diameter,  11 mm thickness, sapphire crystal, 10 meters water resistance, beige rubber strap. Calibre ROCS 1.3, automatic movement,  hour, minutes, seconds, day of the week, 28,800 Vph, 40 jewels, 36 hours of power reserve. Limited edition of 35 pieces, CHF 23,600.

Oris Divers Sixty-Five Date Cotton Candy Sepia

For the first time, the Cotton Candy collection comes with a black dial and a date window with a background in the same colour.

Like the other elements of the collection, it embraces a 38mm case that comes in copper and matches the hour markers and hands on the dial filled with Super-LumiNova beige.

Inside there is nothing new operating the Caliber 733 based on the Sellita SW200-1 which offers up to 41h of power reserve.

The watch that joins the permanent collection can be purchased with a copper bracelet or a black rubber strap.

Oris, Divers Sixty-Five Date Cotton Candy Sepia, 01 733 7771 3154-07. Black dial, Bronze case, 38 mm diameter, sapphire crystal, 100 meters water resistance, bronze bracelet or black rubber strap. Calibre Oris 733, automatic movement,  hour, minutes, seconds, date, 28,800 Vph, 26 jewels, 41 hours of power reserve. € 2,450 (rubber strap) – € 2,750 (bronze bracelet).