The Wandering Hours display goes back to the 19th century, when it was used in clocks and pocket watches. This feat of engineering excellence of former times has been reappraised and reworked by Vincent Calabrese, so that his complex mechanism provides for a dial of high readability and uncluttered elegance. Ottica is therefore a technical and aesthetic wonder whereby the figures on the dial disappear whenever the watch is tilted in a new direction—a constant reminder that time is only an illusion.

This watch, so simple in appearance, with a dial of such plain elegance, hides behind its discreet façade an elaborately worked complication known as Wandering Hours. This mechanism, so successfully reappraised, perfected and patented by its inventor, Vincent Calabrese, now lies at the heart of this model in which technical complexity and simple elegance are one and the same thing.