The MeisterSinger Kaenos Collection Debuts With an Integrated Bracelet

For nearly 25 years, MeisterSinger has been our primary supply for all the things single-hand timepieces. It’s not even a signature for the model, it’s a basic goal, an inescapable function to be discovered on all its watches – without or with additional complications. This deliberate alternative to point the time with out the frenetic minute and second fingers, in a extra relaxed manner, gave the model a robust identification. As we strategy Watches and Wonders 2025, the place the model will exhibit for the primary time, MeisterSinger explores new territories with the Kaenos Assortment, a brand new household of watches outlined by a sportier look, a sporty-chic vibe and, in fact, an indispensable integrated bracelet that has been the primary development of the previous 4 to five years. 

Like so many manufacturers previously few years, MeisterSinger is embracing the idea of the elegant metal sports activities watch with an built-in bracelet and a transparent Seventies vibe – despite the fact that, within the current case, there’s no classic inspiration or references to the previous, MeisterSinger being born within the early 2000s. The Kaenos is thus an train of design to fulfill the present demand for daily-oriented watches, mixing a sure class mandatory for enterprise issues, and but sufficient robustness for weekend actions and energetic life.

The MeisterSinger Kaenos, which identify is derived from the Greek phrase “kainos” – which suggests new or contemporary – is constructed round a barrel-shaped central case measuring 40mm in diameter, with a standard spherical bezel on high – no octagonal or notched bezel with screws that would result in a copycat feeling right here. The case options the traditional mixture of brushed surfaces and polished accents on the perimeters, which is crucial within the class, and a well-proportioned crown adorned with the fermata image from the MeisterSinger emblem. The watch boasts a snug 100m water-resistance, that means it’s nicely protected in any on a regular basis state of affairs, but in addition throughout sportier moments of the week.

A defining factor of the sporty-chic class, the MeisterSinger Kaenos is worn on an built-in metal bracelet that flows seamlessly into the case. It depends on H-shaped brushed hyperlinks with polished lateral bevels and polished rectangular central hyperlinks – a traditional design. It’s closed by a folding clasp with push-button launch.

MeisterSinger’s new assortment is launched in two variations, the Kaenos and the Kaenos Open Date. The primary depends on a single hand to point the hours and the minutes, to the closest 5-minute interval – signature show of the model – along with a round date at 6 o’clock. The Kaenos Open Date makes use of a show equivalent to the model’s Peripgraph collection, that means a central single hand mixed to a recessed round aperture revealing a date discs rotating on a decrease degree. On each, the dial is a so-called sandwich structure – two superimposed layers, with the numerals and hour markers of the higher layer neatly minimize out to disclose a second, luminous layer beneath. The newly designed hour hand, in black or brushed gray relying on the dial, can also be luminous. The Kaenos and the Kaenos Open Date can be found in 4 variations, a matte black dial, or a sunray-brushed dial in mild grey, ice blue, or petrol blue.

The traditional MeisterSinger Kaenos is powered by the Sellita SW400, a current automated motion with a considerably bigger diameter – permitting for the date to be bigger and nearer to the sting of the dial. The Kaenos Open Date depends on the Sellita SW200, a widely known automated motion primarily based on the ETA 2824 architecture. Each run at 4Hz and retailer about 38h of energy reserve. They’re seen by means of a sapphire caseback secured by 4 screws.

Accessible as a part of the everlasting assortment as of April 1st, 2025, the MeisterSinger Kaenos retails for EUR 2,650 and the Kaenos Open Date for EUR 2,950.

MeisterSinger X Alain Silberstein Kaenos fashions

Along with the usual assortment described above, the model can also be releasing its first collaboration with horological designer and artist Alain Silberstein – one of the vital prolific designers round, with countless special editions. Based mostly on the identical structure because the MeisterSinger Kaenos and Kaenos Open Date, the restricted editions stand aside on the dial facet, with the distinctive use of geometric shapes and first colors expensive to Silberstein.

Each editions have a jet-black dial offering nice distinction for the precise particulars that Silberstein has created, beginning with the reinterpretation of the central hand, a robust triangle in hanging purple. The hand follows a bolder minute monitor with printed hour numerals, with utilized gold indexes at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o’clock. Silberstein has changed the quarter-hour markers with wonderful dots. However most significantly, the MeisterSinger X Alain Silberstein are usually not single-handed watches anymore, as they now function a central seconds hand.

Whereas the mannequin primarily based on the Kaenos Open Date is fairly near its commonplace counterpart with the recessed date disc within the centre, the opposite mannequin, named Grand Date, stands other than the traditional Kaenos with a sq. date windown and a golden, recessed internal circle. On the again, the rotor has been personalised in black and gold. Every model is proscribed to 225 items, out there both from specialist retailers or straight from MeisterSinger in early April and priced respectively at EUR 4,100 or EUR 4,400.

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