AV86 1954 Amalfi Mechanical, £339
Named for the Italian Riviera’s golden age and wearing the reference proudly, the 1954 Amalfi is a 36mm dress watch in gold-plated stainless steel with a domed sapphire crystal, off-white sandblasted dial, classic Arabic numerals and a sub-seconds register at six. Inside, a Seagull ST17 hand-wound movement with 39 hours of power reserve. The brown lizard-print leather strap completes the picture.
Available at AV86.
Jack Mason Canton DayDate America 250, $1,745 (approx. £1,319)
Timed to mark 250 years of American independence, Jack Mason’s Canton DayDate limited edition makes its point through the dial – a deep blue with a waving flag texture, gold-toned hands and applied indices, and a day-date display with under-crystal magnifier. Inside, the SW240-1 automatic with a custom gold PVD rotor, built and regulated in the US. Limited to 250 pieces, each numbered on the caseback.
Available at Jack Mason.
Marin Instruments Standard Skin-Diver, $1,050 (approx. £800)
The Standard Skin-Diver is exactly what a dive watch should be. A matte black dial with white printed lume plots for instant legibility, a fully lumed 60-click unidirectional bezel in PVD-coated stainless steel, and a Sellita SW200-1 movement that’s earned its reputation as one of the most reliable in the business. Its own design, its own identity, built for the water and looks the part out of it too.
Available at Marin Instruments.
Golby Skipping Stone, £450
It doesn’t get more summer than a dial that replicates water in motion. Oil-pressed concentric ripples radiate outward in four coast-inspired colourways, each one more summer-ready than the last. The compressor-style case with dual crowns and rotating inner chapter ring gives it the tool-watch credentials to back it up. Miyota 9015 inside, 100m water resistance, and a price that makes it very hard to say no.
Available at Golby Watches.
Horizon Watches Nemolithic, From $1,050 (approx. £800)
Horizon’s Nemolithic takes the Nemo platform and does something genuinely different with it: swapping conventional materials for hand-cut natural stone, five varieties, each entirely unrepeatable. Tiger’s Eye, Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Chrysocolla, and Gold Meteorite – each shaped by millions of years of geological process and unlike any other. Beneath the stone, a Miyota 9035 automatic, 200m water resistance, sapphire crystal with triple AR coating, and a BGW9-filled 120-click unidirectional bezel. Each variant is limited to 23 pieces.
Available at Horizon Watches.
