AUR-WH · BITÁCORA DE HIELO
Bitácora de Hielo
The purity of first light upon the glaciers. A white dial with navy-blue sub-dials for precise reading, like a logbook lying open beneath the sun on the ice.
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AURORA SERIES 421 · MALASPINA EDITION · 6 DIALS
AuroraSERIES421
A chronograph for heading out at first light: to run, to climb, to behold. Assembled in Spain in homage to the Malaspina Expedition
DISCOVER THE COLLECTIONTHE MANIFESTO
“There is a precise moment when the world awakens: the dawn, the first light that breaks the night”
The Aurora series was created to capture the cadence of that instant: the stillness in which flora unfurls and fauna stirs into motion. It is a tribute to the explorers of the Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794), who ventured into the unknown armed with their intellect, their field notebooks and instruments of absolute precision.
Their heirs no longer carry a sextant. They run at daybreak, climb mountains, swim in open water and protect what they observe. For them, the dial’s concentric scales recall the astrolabe and the bathymetric notebooks, and the chronograph is conceived to measure patience as much as effort.
Firstlightbelongstothosewhosetout
Today’s explorer trains while the city still sleeps. Out to the track, the mountain or the sea, body awake and eyes alert, returning with the day already won before it has even begun. The Aurora is made for that hour.
THE DIAL
The dial as a map
The sub-dials bear concentric circles, like the growth rings of an ancient tree or the depth contours of a bathymetric chart. Encircling them, a tachymeter scale that reads like a field instrument.
Applied Arabic numerals and faceted dauphine hands: the scientific legibility of an instrument on which a single misreading could corrupt a record. No date window, no clutter.
THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
AUR-SA · CORAL
Coral
The colour of dawn over the reef. A monochrome salmon dial, a red chronograph seconds hand and the warm palette of the marine life painted by the expedition’s draughtsmen.
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AUR-PA · ANDES
Andes
Summit snow and volcanic rock on a single dial. White panda in a black steel case, with a red seconds hand for an effort that never stops.
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AUR-GR · ENCINA
Encina
The green of the Mediterranean forest, cream sub-dials like light filtering through the leaves and a sky-blue seconds hand. A 24 K gold-plated case for the most patient watch in the series.
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AUR-BK · OBSERVACIÓN ESTELAR
Observación Estelar
The black of an open night sky in a black steel case. White scales like stars and a red seconds hand pulsing in the darkness: the chronograph of night navigation.
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AUR-BU · MAR DEL SUR
Mar del Sur
The deep blue of the Pacific with a turquoise ring recalling a lagoon at dawn. A 24 K gold-plated case and a white seconds hand: a tribute to the expedition’s commander.
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Six dawns, one and the same wrist
“Man suffers because he refuses to be transient; he is the only being that thirsts for eternity in a universe where all things change and perish. Our tragedy and our glory lie in being conscious of time.”
Nature is never in a hurry, and those who live alongside it understand that time does not pass
MALASPINA EXPEDITION · 1789 → TODAY
The Enlightened Crew
In July 1789, two corvettes, the Descubierta and the Atrevida, set sail from Cádiz under the command of Alejandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante. For five years they charted the coasts of the Americas, the Pacific and Asia with a most unusual crew: cartographers, botanists, naturalists and draughtsmen.
Felipe Bauzá drew the charts; Luis Née catalogued thousands of plants; Tadeo Haenke missed the ship and crossed the Andes on foot to rejoin it; Brambila and Ravenet painted landscapes, animals and peoples with astonishing fidelity. They travelled not to conquer, but to understand.
Two centuries later, in 2010, a Spanish scientific expedition bearing his name circled the globe once more to study the health of the ocean. The Aurora series takes up that torch: six chronographs for those who head out into nature at first light, move through it with respect and return knowing the value of observation.
THE SIX DIALS
The Aurora Collection SERIES 421
Six protagonists of the expedition, one case. One instrument, six dials
INDIEWATCH COLLECTION — AURORA SERIES 421 · YX
The deep blue of the South Sea encircled by a turquoise ring, like a lagoon at dawn, with gold-plated numerals and a white seconds hand. A tribute to Alejandro Malaspina, the commander who believed knowledge was worth more than war
“An empty track and the sun just risen”
FOUR WAYS TO WEAR IT
Four ways to wear an Aurora SERIES 421
The grey overcoat, the green leather, the camel and the white suit. Four wardrobes, one wrist
01 · XQ — OBSERVACIÓN ESTELAR
The city
The grey overcoat
All black against grey wool and a black roll-neck: the chronograph of the night knows how to dress for the day, too.
02 · OM — ENCINA
The afternoon
The green leather
Forest green and gold plating against a bottle-green leather jacket: the botanist’s watch, equal to the city.
03 · YX — MAR DEL SUR
The journey
The camel overcoat
Midnight blue and gold against a camel overcoat and navy knitwear: the Pacific on the wrist, even on dry land.
04 · OD — ANDES
The night
The white suit
A panda dial in black steel against a white suit and a red T-shirt: the chronograph’s red finds its match.
