Neoma Star Nero

Built with Omnis as a spati’horloger instrument — a vessel for new space-times. A polished steel arch suspends a free-sprung balance above a sector dial cut in three textures: a guilloché helix, sunburst anthracite, radial black.

An automatic engine of exploration under a domed sapphire, dressed in a lume that holds its own against the dark. One hundred numbered pieces; the first run is gone.

We drew it early, and it shows: nothing on this dial sits where a watch usually puts it. The hours are pushed high, the seconds low, and the balance — the part most watches hide behind a caseback — is the first thing you see. That is still the argument. Watched rather than read, the time stops being a number and becomes something happening in front of you.

The Neoma Star Nero is an asymmetrical space-time-machine watch, designed by Black Corner with Omnis.

The Star Nero is a tribute to a legendary science-fiction exploration spaceship.

You have already guessed which one.

Saying it out loud would only make it smaller. The tribute is in the object rather than in the caption, and a watch that explains what it means has stopped being worth looking at.

An exposed balance bridge, drawn as a polished steel arch, is suspended over the sector dial. Behind it, a helix guilloché ground carries two counters: the sunray steel hours and minutes at twelve o’clock, the matte black radial small seconds at six.

The balance is free-sprung, which means its rate is set by weights on the wheel itself rather than by a regulator index, and it runs at 21,600 vibrations an hour under the arch. F28-12, automatic, forty-two hours from full. It sits on the dial side because that is the side you are looking at.

Can I still buy a Star Nero?

No. The edition was a hundred numbered pieces and the run sold out. We do not hold stock, we do not take orders for it, and we do not broker resales; if one appears on the secondary market it has nothing to do with us. What we can do is tell you when we make something in the same spirit.

What does the caseback engraving EXPLORERS 81 OF 100 mean?

EXPLORERS is the edition’s name, engraved on every caseback with that piece’s number under it. The watch photographed here is the eighty-first of the hundred. The name is not printed anywhere on the dial; the caseback is the only place the edition identifies itself.

Which spaceship is the Star Nero a tribute to?

A legendary science-fiction exploration ship. That is as far as we go. It is the one specification we do not publish, and the guessing has always been part of the piece.