Kairo One · Eggshell
Grained eggshell dial · Heat-blued screws
904L steel · Oxblood calf strap
$4,200 USD · Incl. duties
Independent watchmaking · Kuala Lumpur
One hundred watches a year. Not one more.
KAIRO is a two-person atelier. Every calibre is finished by hand, observed for twenty-one days, then numbered and released. The watch on this page is running. That is your local time.
CAL. K-7228,800 vph · 64 h reserve
±0.4 s/day21-day regulation
The case for slow
A watch should outlast the person who made it.
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Most watches are assembled in minutes by machines that never look up. Ours take six months, because two people in Bangsar insist on correcting every bevel by hand under a microscope. That is not romance. It is the only way tolerances of a hundredth of a millimetre actually hold.
The calibre K-72 was drawn from a blank sheet. No supplied movements, no rebadged ébauches. Every bridge is anglage-finished, every screw heat-blued over an open flame, every wheel inspected twice and signed once.
"We do not make watches faster. We make fewer watches properly."
When a piece finally leaves the bench, it has been running under observation for twenty-one days in five positions and three temperatures. If it drifts past four-tenths of a second a day, it goes back. Nobody is waiting on a quota. The quota waits on us.
The collection · 2026
Three dials. One calibre. Every one of them is running right now.
All three share the K-72 and a 38.5 mm case. The hands below keep your local time, the same way they will on your wrist.
Kairo One · Slate
Sandblasted slate dial · Rhodium track
904L steel · Charcoal suede strap
$4,200 USD · Incl. duties
Kairo GMT · Night
Midnight enamel dial · 24h inner ring
904L steel · Oxblood calf strap
$5,800 USD · Incl. duties
Allocations open twice a year. Deposits are fully refundable until casing.
Six months, four stages
From bar stock to a signed caseback.
The order below is the order on the bench. Nothing moves to the next stage until the previous one is correct.
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Machining
Plates and bridges are milled from German silver, then corrected by hand against gauges. Anything outside one-hundredth of a millimetre is melted back down, not "made to work".
02
Finishing
Anglage on every edge, perlage under every bridge, black polish on the steelwork. This is the slowest stage by far, and the one a loupe rewards most.
03
Assembly
One watchmaker assembles one watch, start to finish. The 312 components go together twice: once to check, once for good. The caseback carries their initials.
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Regulation
Twenty-one days on the timing machine across five positions and three temperatures. The piece ships only when daily deviation sits inside four-tenths of a second.
Specifications
The full sheet, nothing withheld.
Independent watchmaking lives or dies on detail, so here is all of it. Open a section, or ask us anything before you reserve.
Hand-wound, designed and built in-house. No supplied ébauches.
- Frequency
- 28,800 vph (4 Hz)
- Reserve
- 64 hours, twin barrel
- Components
- 312, hand-finished
- Accuracy
- ±0.4 s/day after 21-day regulation
Sized to sit flat under a cuff, not to shout across a room.
- Diameter
- 38.5 mm · 9.8 mm thick
- Material
- 904L stainless steel, hand-brushed
- Crystal
- Boxed sapphire front, exhibition back
- Resistance
- 50 m
Each piece ships with two straps on quick-release bars.
- Primary
- Oxblood calf, hand-stitched
- Second
- Charcoal suede
- Lug width
- 20 mm, drilled lugs
- Buckle
- Signed pin buckle, 904L
Serviced at the bench it was built on, by the person who built it.
- Warranty
- 5 years, international
- Interval
- Service recommended every 5–7 years
- Turnaround
- 4–6 weeks, tracked at every stage
Reserve · Autumn 2026 allocation
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