Krayon Anywhere Parhelion
There is a moment in Greenland when the sky forgets its rules.
You stand on ice that is older than your language, and the sun—instead of behaving—multiplies. Hexagonal crystals suspended in the frozen air catch the light and refract it into phantom suns, flanking the real one like loyal shadows. The Inuit have a name for this, but Rémi Maillat, the founder of Krayon, simply had a question: What if a watch could hold that kind of light?
The answer took years, 159 sapphires, and a gemstone cut that did not exist before now.
The Ice That Became a Dial
Most gemset watches are about wealth. This one is about weather.
The Parhelion does not scatter diamonds like confetti. It builds a gradient of sapphires—white at noon, bleeding through glacial blues into abyssal depths at midnight—that maps the arc of a day as if viewed from the deck of an icebreaker. The stones are baguette-cut, set not just on the bezel but across the case middle, the lugs, and even the pin buckle, as though the watch itself had been dipped in frozen light and emerged crystallized.
At twelve o'clock sits a single stone unlike any other: the Krayon Cut. Shaped in the Y-geometry of the maison's logo, it has a horizontal table and bevelled flanks that catch light differently than a traditional emerald or brilliant cut. It is not a stone that sits on a watch. It is a stone that is the watch's signature, translated into mineral. Maillat developed it specifically for this piece, and it took as long to perfect as some movements.
The dial continues the illusion. Eleven diamond indices, cut in the same Krayon geometry, are set invisibly so they appear to hover above the surface like ice floes on dark water. At the centre, a disc of mother-of-pearl refuses to stay still—its iridescence shifts with every tilt of the wrist, mimicking the Greenland sea where icebergs turn slowly in currents of reflected sky.
The Case as a Coordinate System
The 42 mm case is forged from a gold-palladium alloy that is naturally white—no rhodium plating, no disguise. It is harder to machine, more demanding to finish, and chosen precisely because its purity of colour mirrors the purity of the concept. The gemstone lines that traverse the lugs and bezel are not decorative accidents; their angles trace the invisible grid of longitude and latitude. Wear this watch, and you are carrying a fragment of the Earth's geometry on your wrist.
The Complication That Measures Your World
Inside beats the Calibre C030, the movement that won the Calendar and Astronomy Prize at the GPHG in 2022. It is the engine behind the Anywhere complication: a mechanical algorithm that calculates the exact minute of sunrise and sunset for any location you choose. Not a generic city. Your coordinates. Your beach. Your childhood window. The dial displays MIDDAY, MIDNIGHT, SIX AM and SIX PM in Krayon’s bespoke typography, but the real magic is in the two arcs that track the sun's daily birth and death across your personal horizon.
This is the first time this movement has been presented in a fully Gemset interpretation. The mechanics are unchanged; the poetry is amplified.
A Stone's Journey
Consider the patience required. Sourcing the sapphires alone took nearly a year—not for scarcity alone, but for colour discipline. Each stone had to sit in a gradient so seamless that the transition from white to deep blue feels like a breath held underwater. The Krayon Cut demanded its own research: how to achieve that distinctive Y-form while maintaining the structural integrity needed for an invisible setting. This is not jewellery applied to a watch. This is a watch that had to be reimagined as a vessel for light.
"Anywhere was born from light. Parhelion allows us to express light differently — not as a decorative effect, but as a component of time itself." — Rémi Maillat
Technical Specification
Movement: Caliber C030
Dimensions: 35.40 mm diameter × 5.00 mm thick
Architecture: Patented functional architecture
Functions: Hours & minutes, sunrise & sunset times, 24-hour display, simple calendar, month
Winding: Manual with stopwork
Frequency: 3 Hz | Power Reserve: 72 hours
Components: 432 | Jewels: 55
Watch: Parhelion
Case: 18k white gold, 42 mm diameter × 9.5 mm thick
Water Resistance: 30 m
Strap: Dark blue alligator with 18k white gold pin buckle
Displays
Central hour and minute hands
Sun as hour indicator on 24-hour dial
Sunrise and sunset times on peripheral discs
Date at 6 o'clock
Gem-Setting (171 total)
Case: 124 blue gradient baguette-cut sapphires
Dial: 11 Krayon-cut white diamond hour markers (mother-of-pearl dial, invisible setting)
Buckle: 35 blue gradient baguette-cut sapphires
Signature: 1 Krayon-cut white sapphire at mid-day
Price: HKD $4,300,000