Krayon Anyday Rose Gold
Krayon Anyday—a timepiece that doesn't merely track dates, but transforms how you perceive your month. The second edition, now rendered in warm 18K rose gold with a sophisticated two-tone anthracite grey dial, represents the evolution of what was already a mechanical first: the only wristwatch to display the entire month at a single glance.
Beyond Complication: A Tool for Living
Traditional calendar complications often feel like solutions searching for problems—impressive in their complexity, yet demanding in their operation. The Anyday inverts this paradigm. It asks a simple question: What do you actually need to know about your schedule?
The answer arrives instinctively. A fixed outer ring marked 1–31 provides the month's skeleton. A delicate crescent moon indicator glides along the periphery, pointing to today's date. But the revelation lies in the rhythm: weekdays rendered in anthracite, weekends in gold—a visual cadence created by two hand-painted discs from craftsman André Martinez. No windows. No abbreviations. Just an immediate, intuitive understanding of how your weeks are shaped.
Is the 10th a weekday? Does the 15th fall on a Saturday? How many working days until month-end? The information presents itself without reaching for your phone, without breaking concentration.
The Poetry of Practicality
Krayon's philosophy extends beyond mechanics into narrative. The watch draws its name from a short film depicting a bear and squirrel—friends separated by hibernation, reunited by a promise: "Anyday for you." The squirrel chooses March 5th, 2025—Jīngzhé in the lunar calendar, when spring stirs hibernating creatures awake.
This story mirrors the Anyday's purpose: timekeeping anchored in natural cycles, in anticipation of moments that matter. The watch becomes an extension of your personal agenda, not through digital intrusion, but through mechanical empathy.
The Four Dots: Where Engineering Meets Intuition
The full-month display presents an elegant challenge: how to distinguish the 31st from the 1st without confusion? Krayon's solution—four discrete dots at 6 o'clock—appears simple yet conceals remarkable ingenuity.
These dots serve as visual breathing room between months, but they also extend the calendar's logic. By adding four positions to the traditional 31-day layout, the display achieves 35 total positions—exactly five complete weeks. The dots reveal the next month's opening weekdays using the same color coding, creating continuity rather than interruption. Your month flows, unsegmented, from one to the next.
Rose Gold, Contemporary Soul
This edition's warmth comes not from nostalgia but from contrast. The rose gold case against the anthracite dial creates a quieter, more contemporary presence than its predecessor. The palette sharpens legibility while the proportions—classic 39mm, slender 9.5mm profile—ensure the watch remains an understated companion rather than a demanding statement.
From the bridges echoing Neuchâtel's lakeshore contours to the Krayon waves animating the main plate, finishing details reward closer inspection. Yet the watch's greatest achievement remains invisible: the mechanical intelligence that makes complex information feel effortlessly accessible.
Technical Specification
Movement
Calibre: C032
Diameter: 35.40 mm
Thickness: 5.00 mm
Functions
Hour and minutes
Simple calendar
Days of the week
Planner: Permanent indication of every day and date for the current month
Automatic update at the end of 31-day months
Permanent indication of day and date for the 4 last days of previous month and the 4 first days of the next month
Specifications
Power reserve: 72 hours
Frequency: 3 Hz
Winding: Manual with stopwork
Jewels: 46
Components: 378
Displays
Central hour and minute display
Date display: Along periphery, indicated by a moving crescent moon
Day of the week: Indicated by color (distinguishing weekdays from weekends)
First week of following month: Indicated by four small dots positioned at 6 o'clock
Case
Reference: C032-02
Material: 18K rose gold
Diameter: 39 mm
Thickness: 9.5 mm
Water resistance: 30 m
Dial
Guilloché central dial section featuring Krayon's exclusive stylized "Y" logo
Base: Anthracite sunburst
Strap & Buckle
Strap: Anthracite lizard leather
Buckle: 18K rose gold pin buckle
Price: HKD $989,900