The Furlan Marri Outback Songlines is a 39mm steel automatic sold exclusively through Time+Tide, and it’s the second Furlan Marri Edition the two have made together, following the 2024 Outback Elegy. This time the party trick is the hinged hunter caseback first seen on the 2025 Red Hunter, now scaled up from 36mm.
As with the Elegy, the theme comes straight from Time+Tide’s home turf: Australia, and specifically the Songlines that cross the Outback. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, Songlines are songs that describe the land itself and mark out where to find water, shelter and food. Sung in the right order, they’ve guided Aboriginal peoples across the country for tens of thousands of years without a map or an instrument in sight. They’re still sung today, and they’re among the oldest memory systems humanity has.
This ode to outback navigation has been translated straight to the dial. It’s deep brown and rose gold laid over a grained, lacquered finish, warm tones that tie directly back to the Outback. Curved, applied indexes and steel half-spheres add texture, and a 4N rose gold-plated seconds hand nods to the rotor beneath. The gold works nicely as a metaphor for the Australian heat, though a few more golden markers would have carried the theme a lot further than a single hand manages on its own.
While the palette is similar to the Elegy’s, the architecture is the Red Hunter’s – Furlan Marri’s fourth anniversary piece, and the first to bring the hunter case to the line-up. Hunter cases reached peak popularity on the pocket watches of the 19th and early 20th centuries, though the format was established long before 1800. They eventually gave us the officer’s wristwatch when converted to a wrist-wearable form.
The whole point is a hinged cover over the crystal – genuinely useful back when a single knock could be the end of the thing. Furlan Marri reverses the idea: the cover sits over the caseback rather than the dial, released by a discreet side notch, with the inside engraved in the old tradition with a Time+Tide marking. The irony, of course, is that sapphire with five layers of anti-reflective coating hardly needs protecting, making the hunter case an aesthetic choice rather than necessity.
Where the Red Hunter kept to vintage 36mm proportions, the Songlines sizes it up to 39mm – trading a touch of vintage authenticity for a case size most of us are more familiar and comfortable with. It’s 316L steel, 12.06mm thick and 47mm lug to lug, with a screw-down crown and 100m water resistance.
You get a three-row bracelet and a brown calf strap in the box, both quick-release, with a signed steel buckle on the strap. The two pull in opposite directions, which is part of the fun: the bracelet leans into those new, more modern proportions, while the calf strap tugs you back toward the vintage feel the 36mm Red Hunter was going for.
Inside is the La Joux-Perret automatic G100, the same calibre as the Red Hunter’s, good for 68-hours of power reserve and accurate to within +/-7 seconds a day. Through the caseback you find a rose gold 4N-coated tungsten rotor sitting over a movement finished with Geneva stripes, snailing and blued-steel screws.
At CHF 1,850 (around £1,700) it’s asking CHF 200 more than the Red Hunter it’s based on. Which makes sense given the extra 3mm and the new dial while retaining the same movement and finishing. This is a retailer edition rather than a numbered limited edition and goes on sale on 19 September 2026 exclusively through Time+Tide, online first for a 48-hour window, and after that only across their boutiques.
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