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Asterix watch – Chronofixe
An accessible work from Romaric André.
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UNTIL RECENTLY, IF you’d wanted to get your hands on iconoclastic watch modifier and artist Romaric André’s work, it wasn’t easy. Now, thanks to a collaboration with Chronofixe, just a few clicks will do it in the form of the Swiss firm’s Asterix watch. Powered by a cooking Seiko NH35 movement, the real interest is in the dial and caseback. Both feature Asterix, with him giving 8 o’clock (in Roman numerals, of course) a hard enough Gaulish belting to knock it across the dial. Even the date and dive bezel are, appropriately, in Roman numerals, too. Résister encore et toujours! Expect to pay €395.