Neode N01 First Edition Pure Silver

Architect Marius-Daniel Dumitrascu’s debut: 39.5mm Grade 5 titanium, 925 silver dial by Les Cadraniers de Genève, Chronode eight-day movement — 25 pieces.

Quiet Geometry

Neode comes from neod, Old English for desire and earnest endeavour. Founder Marius-Daniel Dumitrascu left architecture for the bench and spent three years and more than 130 printed trials refining a watch that reveals itself slowly — proportions first, then the gaps between dial sectors, then the cantilevered titanium balance bridge.

Swiss Bench Partners

Jean-François Mojon’s Chronode team built the N01 calibre on a C101 base: manual wind, twin barrels, 28 jewels, 3.98mm thick, eight days of reserve, free-sprung balance at 21,600 vph. Voutilainen & Cattin cut the Grade 5 titanium case — 39.50mm across, 45.5mm lug-to-lug, 7.9mm thick before crystals, 50 meters of water resistance, brushed and polished in alternating planes. Les Cadraniers de Genève (F.P. Journe’s dial house) frosted 925 silver with hand grénage, carved shadow gaps between sectors, and set a recessed teal power reserve at twelve.

Hands And Strap

Indices are cut from slate grey ceramic Super-LumiNova. Hands arrive in 18ct 210 grey gold with matching lume inserts. Domed sapphire with internal AR sits up front; an integrated rubber strap closes on a custom titanium buckle. Twenty-five Pure Silver First Editions at CHF 26,400 before tax, deliveries aimed at Q2 2027, with annual output kept under a hundred.