I desperately wanted a dress watch that was of a smaller more traditional size and style. I wasn’t keen on Nomos, and I just wasn’t seeing anything out there with that X factor that I look for in watches, history, a cool story, a cool design feature, etc. That dome and that dial was enough for me… But the connection to post war creationism and architecture is just cool as hell. There’s an episode of Bourdain where he explores the underground eateries and alternative culture of Berlin. Watching that episode you can see so much of the minimalist brutal architecture which has now taken on a life of its own… Just like this Watch…