OTMOS
Sérac, a square 925 sterling silver timepiece with a powder-blue sunburst dial, by OTMOS

No. 01

Sérac

Built, set, measured, and confirmed to one standard.

The Sérac suspended in a glacial ice cave

Technical specifications

REFERENCE

OT-S26-GL

CASE

26 × 26 mm

THICKNESS

5.8 mm

MATERIAL

925 sterling silver

CASE BACK

Stainless steel

DIAL

Powder blue, sunburst

SETTING

Round brilliant stones; four crystal indices

CRYSTAL

Multi-faceted toughened mineral crystal

MOVEMENT

Japanese quartz

STRAP

Leather, 14 mm

The origin

Where a glacier breaks, it does not crumble. It cuts.

High on the icefall, pressure and time fracture the glacier into towers of clean geometry. The ice does not soften into shape. It is cut into it. Those towers are called séracs.

The Sérac carries that fracture on the wrist. A true square, corners cut, not curved, in metal that is worked, not poured. The dial holds the last light of deep ice.

Pure silver is too soft to hold a stone. The case is 925: silver strengthened to grip what it carries. That is what the number means.

A raw silver ingot and fine silver grain beside the Sérac
The Sérac case held in a micrometer reading 5.8 millimetres

5.8 millimetres. Measured, not quoted.

The Sérac worn on the wrist

26 millimetres, worn.

The Sérac encased in a block of glacier ice

Finished on every surface. Including the ones you will never see.

Examine the object.

Each piece is modeled in three dimensions for examination here. The model of this piece is in preparation at the atelier; until it arrives, the stage holds the OTMOS bezel signature. Drag to turn it.

The signature bezel. Sixty indices, one standard.

Offered when the standard is met.

Viewings are arranged from the Rajkot atelier. State your requirement; the piece answers for itself.

THE REGISTER

Those on the register hear of it first.