Stollenwurm Launches A Reinvention Of Celestial Time, Guided By Planetary Glyphs

The Stollenwurm Series 1 turns to one of the oldest frameworks of time: the seven-day cycle. A rational date, counted in numbers, is paired with the day not spelled in letters, but revealed through the ancient symbols of the Sun, Moon, and five classical planets.

On the dial, days are not spelled out but traced in symbols the circle of the Sun, the crescent of the Moon, the cross of Venus, the spear of Mars. These signs, inherited from centuries of astronomy and alchemy, form a miniature cosmos: fragments of the heavens made legible at a glance.

Behind them lies another language: the vocabulary of watchmaking itself. Wheels, bridges, bracelet links, clasps — the raw elements from which a timepiece takes shape. What might first appear as a scattered anatomy is in fact a grammar of precision. Each part has its weight, its place, its role in giving form to intent.