THE CASE
38 mm · Titanium
A 38 mm round case in titanium, with a smooth fixed bezel ringed by ninety saw teeth and a fluted conical crown, shaped to be turned between two fingers
COLORS 509 · 6 DIALS · THE TIME A COLOUR TAKES
Colors509
A collection of the light and colours found in the corners of the Peninsula: six dials, each in a single colour from edge to edge
DISCOVER THE COLLECTIONTHE MANIFESTO
“This collection is dedicated to those who drew a colour from the earth, from a plant or from an insect, and to those who know at what hour a wall should be looked at”
Each morning, the light enters the peninsula at Cap de Creus and takes some fifty minutes to reach Finisterre. Along the way, it draws out the colours. In Albarracín, among the pines, the gypsum of the houses kindles at first light. In Salamanca, the stone waits until late afternoon to turn golden. In Nerva, the Río Tinto runs red between the heather. In Majaelrayo, among the oaks, the slate gleams blacker still the moment it rains
These are corners of towns and cities where a light, a landscape and all that grows there come together. Colors is a collection of those lights and those colours of Spain
Wornlikeabelt
A coloured watch is worn as one wears a belt or a pair of shoes. Choose it to match your clothes, or let it be the only note of colour against a white shirt. At thirty-eight millimetres, it suits any wrist
THE DIAL
A dial in a single colour
Above it, three hands, the IndieWatch logo beneath 12 o’clock and its name above 6. No numerals, no indices, no minute track and no date. The time is read from the angle of the hands, much as one knows the hour by the light entering a room
The colour runs from edge to edge, and a fumé, a veil of smoke, deepens it gradually towards the rim. Ninety sawtooth notches encircle the smooth bezel, catching the light with every turn of the wrist
INDIEWATCH · SOULMADES
Colors 509
Turn it as though it were in your hand: the six dials with their fumé gradient, the ninety saw-tooth notches, the conical crown and, through the caseback, the movement and its rotor
Colors 509 · Six dialsTitanium case · Ø 38 mmFixed bezel · ninety saw-tooth notchesSapphire crystalMiyota 8215 automatic · 21 jewels · after dark, hours and minutes glow blue
THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
THE CRYSTAL
Sapphire
Sapphire crystal over the dial: it resists the scratches of daily wear and leaves the colour in full view
THE DIAL
Six colours · One for each dial
Salmon, midnight blue, crimson red, forest green, champagne gold and black. Glossy enamel, fine grain or sunray, from edge to edge
THE HANDS
Three flat hands
In polished steel. The seconds hand and its pipe are crafted as a single piece and, by night, the hours and minutes glow blue
THE STRAP
Black rubber · 20 mm
Fitted as standard in black rubber, with “indie” on the 12 o’clock piece and “watch” on the 6 o’clock piece, secured by a steel deployant clasp. Each listing also offers a black NATO, black leather and alligator
THE MOVEMENT
Miyota 8215 · Automatic
Miyota 8215 automatic movement with 21 jewels, beating at 21,600 vibrations per hour: the seconds hand ticks six times each second. Visible through the caseback. No date window
ON THE WRIST
Six colours, each with its own time
“There are six colours, and each one takes its own time. Behind almost every one of them is someone who went out in search of it”
Time takes on colour
FROM THE CAVE TO THE WRIST
The Time a Colour Takes
In 1879, in a cave at Santillana del Mar, an eight-year-old girl noticed something on the ceiling and ran to tell her father. They were bison, painted in red and black with iron oxide and charcoal. Some thirteen thousand years earlier a rockfall had sealed the entrance, and the colour had remained there in the dark
In the seventeenth century, only silver earned the Crown more than grana, a red that reached Cádiz and Sevilla in leather pouches. In Europe, few knew what they were buying: an insect of some five millimetres that lives clinging to the prickly pear. Crush the female, and out comes red
Every colour takes its own time: a few minutes for the rosicler of daybreak, an hour for nightfall, three months for the encarnado of cochineal, half a year for the verdial olive, two years for gualda and some hundred and fifty million years for azabache, or jet. This is the order of the six dials
THE SIX DIALS
The Colors 509 Collection
Six colours of the Peninsula, one 38 mm titanium case
INDIEWATCH COLLECTION — COLORS 509 · A FEW MINUTES
Salmon with a fine grain. The hue of the houses of Albarracín at first light, in their pine-clad sierra
“A few minutes, as long as the dawn lasts”
FOUR WAYS TO WEAR IT
Four ways to wear a Colors 509
Burgundy, leather, corduroy and knitwear. A single colour on the dial, four ways to dress it
01 · ENCARNADO
The long table
Burgundy, tropical wool and a gleam of titanium
A burgundy suit from head to toe, with the Encarnado in perfect accord. For a long dinner and an unhurried linger at the table
02 · AZABACHE
Night out
Leather, wool and black lacquer
A leather coat and pleated trousers, all in black, with the Azabache as the only flash of light. For the walk home
03 · VERDIAL
Corduroy Sunday
Moss green, corduroy and black rubber
A washed overshirt and corduroy trousers in the tones of the Verdial. For the countryside and a table in the sun
04 · ANOCHECER
Blue hour
Rib knit, midnight blue and titanium
A ribbed roll-neck and a navy coat, with the Anochecer just glimpsed at the wrist. For the last stroll of the day
