Last year Venetian watch brand Venezianico debuted their new top end wristwatch, the Redentore Utopia. With its stunningly pretty hand-guilloché dial and rare Italian-made high spec movement, it was a well deserved winner of the Best Dress Watch of the Year in the 2025 Oracle Time Watch Awards as voted for by you, the Oracle Time readers. Now Venezianico are releasing a sequel, building on and tweaking the original formula rather than completely reinventing it, so naturally it’s called the Venezianico Redentore Utopia II.
If you were to put Utopia and Utopia II side by side, the most notable difference would be the new guilloché pattern on the dial and the colours. The new version essentially takes the wave pattern of the original and adds a slight spiral to it as well as more pronounced ringed sections. It’s still inspired by the waters of Venice which is why it’s called the Marea (The Sea) pattern. For the colours though, they’ve moved away from the aquatic blue to either gold or graphite as it’s available in two versions. The gold (called Alpha) symbolises Venice as a centre of culture, trade and art while the graphite (called Beta) is the more down to Earth interpretation of the city, full of iron, docks and mooring posts.
The dials are still produced by Atelier Renzetti using traditional 19th century rose-engine lathes. Honestly I would lose my mind after making (or realistically failing to make) a single dial as precise as this by hand so to produce a collection like this is a testament to their expertise. Those dials are housed in the same 38mm x 8.9mm steel cases as the original Venezianico Redentore Utopia.
Turn over that case though and you’ll find something else that has changed besides the dial. The Italian-made movement has graduated from the V5000 to the V5001. Specs-wise they’re identical with a 60-hour power reserve and +/-3 seconds per day accuracy. What has changed is the finishing, as it is now dressed in 24k gold galvanisation as well as some more specific changes including the swap from sunray brushed wheels to snailed ones (perhaps to thematically match the new spiral of the dial on the other side). The movements are produced by OISA 1937, who we spoke with last year following the release of the Utopia, check out the interview here.
Ultimately the changes between the Utopia II and Utopia are small but significant, which is why I describe it firmly as a sequel rather than a reboot. You can plainly see the throughline and design process that led from the original to this. It’s a little bit grander and a little bit more lavish, especially in the case of the Alpha gold edition. Though that’s not reflected in the price which remains the same at €4,500 (approx. £3,900) – it’s also a limited edition available for a 72-hour pre-order window. This is not an experiment anymore to see if a Made-in-Italy watch is possible, it’s a flagship watch and the jewel in Venezianico’s crown.
Price and Specs:
More details at Venezianico.
