de GRISOGONO Fuso Quadrato

The new de GRISOGONO Fuso Quadrato GMT watch combines the Swiss jewelry brand’s trademark square body with a pair of superimposed dials: one showing time in your current place of stay and the other, hidden by an amazing diaphragm mechanism when not needed, in some other city.

People sometimes ask me, why I almost always write positive reviews. Well, the answer is simple: I don’t really like to write about things I don’t really like. I understand that it always takes a lot of effort and commitment of dozens of highly educated people to design and then produce even the simplest mechanism and I appreciate that commitment. A watch, or a car, or some other artifact must totally piss me off for me to write a negative review about it.

That said, I really like the de GRISOGONO Fuso Quadrato watch. Resembling at the first glance the recently unveiled Perrelet Turbine watch, this timekeeper’s “rotor” is in fact a diaphragm that can be opened with a push of button at 9 o’clock to see the readings of the secondary dial.

As you can see on the photos, both the secondary dial and the secondary hour hand feature design, which is totally different from their primary counterparts. While the black dial on the first layer features a combination of golden arrow-shaped indices and Arabic numerals, the secondary dial is made of gold and shows black Roman numerals. The hour hand for the secondary time-zone also looks completely different, although its bottle-opener form is rather arguable. It is meant to focus its owner’s attention on current time but, on the photo, we see just an arrow-shaped index marker. So, it would be nice if the second dial featured only Roman numerals without the indices.

The watch is quite large, too, but seems to be well proportioned. I’m sure it will look great on a wrist of an average man.

de GRISOGONO Fuso Quadrato watch specification :

Price range: N/A
Movement: de Grisogono DF 21-90, automatic, 28,800 vph, 21 jewels
Complications: Second timezone
Power reserve: 42 hours
Case material: 18K rose gold
Case dimensions: 47 mm x 58.5 mm (including lugs)
Case height: 13.1 mm
Dial: Two dials: first is black, the second is rose gold with an impressed pattern and is hidden by a diaphragm made of 12 titanium blades
Water resistance: 30 m
Strap: Black alligator leather with triple deployment, color-matched to the case
Crystal: Sapphire, outcurved in the 6/12 hours axis