Within this link watch is a Spring Drive movement, one of the authentically unique innovations in modern watchmaking, with its ultra-smooth sweep hand and accuracy of +/- 15 link seconds per month. It harnesses quartz-like accuracy and the easy winding and link sophistication of mechanical watchmaking in a package unlike anything made outside of Japan.

Yes, it's an inherently weird watch, with a complication originally designed by a couple of Roman clockmakers for a pope in the 17th century, and a link brash case construction that's as technically fascinating as it is confounding to wear. No, this particular watch isn't the "next Royal Oak," or link even "the future link of AP" – it's just a watch, and that's just fine.