MARVIN Jumping Hour Doctor's Watch ref.541·902 / Regulator Dial, 1995

— A quiet Swiss inventiveness, carrying 150 years —

Marvin was founded in 1850. For more than 150 years it has kept up honest watchmaking in Switzerland.

Its inventive, refined designs are highly regarded worldwide, and it is known as a brand the revolutionary Che Guevara favoured.

This model concentrates Marvin's spirit into a rectangular case.

— A jumping hour, and quietly ordered minutes and seconds —

The small window at the top of the dial carries a jumping hour, whose numeral switches over once an hour.

A regulator layout that separates minutes and seconds draws both the composure of an instrument and the stillness of watching time pass.

The dial, spread with guilloché ripples like a record, produces soft shadow every time it takes the light and draws the eye gently in.

— A large seconds hand, born for physicians —

A model in the line of the doctor's watch.

The big seconds at six is set large so a pulse can be read easily, with five-second graduations and Arabic numerals for clear legibility.

— Intelligence and softness drawn by a rectangular case —

The minute hand on the inner dial, with 60, 15, 30 and 45 and fine graduations, gives an orderly expression.

The whole has a coherent, classical beauty.

The crown, rounded like a bud, is easy to operate and sits there as an understated accent.

— The quiet ritual a manual wind brings —

The manual movement returns a faint resistance and warmth every time the crown is wound, giving you a moment of facing a machine directly.

The hour jumps with a click, the hands advance, and time quietly falls into order.

A timepiece that puts that small story at your wrist.

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