Five days and twelve millimetres
By Sam Okafor, London ยท
The 120-hour reserve is the headline, and it's one of the few movement facts I actually care about in a dress watch. It means you can wear it on Monday, leave it on a shelf until Friday night, and it'll still be going. For anyone who rotates watches, that changes everything about how a mechanical dress watch fits into the week.
The price of that reserve is thickness. 12 mm on a 40 mm case is chunky for something called Artelier, and in profile it looks more like a sports watch wearing a suit. The silver dial is pleasant enough, with applied indices and a date, but it's competent rather than inspired, and nothing on it distracts you from the height of the case.
3,800 to 4,100 dollars, open back, 50 m, 21 mm lugs (another awkward size). If you hate setting watches, this is a great choice. If you want a dress watch to slide under a cuff, the IWC Portofino and the Nomos range are a full few millimetres thinner.