It is where you are. So is the watch.
Nocturne a quiet machine for keeping time
A film by Ebbe Rasmussen, Copenhagen
I The Object
Turn it once
and the room
changes
The Nocturne is cut from a single block of hardened steel. The flanks are brushed by hand, the bezel polished to a mirror, so the light slides instead of catches.
- Case
- 38mm steel
- Finish
- Brushed and polished
- Weight
- 82 grams
- Edition
- 120 pieces
Time is not a number. It is the weight of a morning and the sound of a latch closing.
II Movement
A calibre
built to be
heard less
Keep scrolling and the watch opens. Inside sits a hand finished automatic with a free sprung balance, perlage on the plate and Geneva stripes on the bridges.
- Calibre
- OB 19
- Reserve
- 72 hours
- Beat
- 28,800 vph
- Jewels
- 31
We spent a year removing parts. The best hour of work was throwing the third prototype in a drawer.
III Night
Sapphire above,
light that
stays awake
The crystal is sapphire, domed just enough to catch a window. When the room goes dark the indices and hands give back the day they stored, a cool white you can read at three in the morning.
- Glass
- Domed sapphire
- Coat
- Dual AR
- Lume
- Cool white
- Water
- 50 meters
Built in small numbers in Copenhagen. Finished by the same four pairs of hands every week.
IV Strap
Three straps,
one quiet click
Quick release bars let you change the character of the watch without a tool. Scroll to try each one, or choose.
- Lug width
- 20mm
- Release
- Tool free
V Stills
Frames from
the film
Reserve the Nocturne
One hundred twenty pieces this year. Write with your wrist size and we will hold one for a week while you decide without pressure.
Ebbe Rasmussen
Ebbe Rasmussen keeps a small bench and a smaller ego. The studio makes one watch at a time and keeps a notebook of every client wrist, every city light, every quiet correction.