More than a watchmaker, Rémi Maillat, founder of Krayon, is a watch design engineer. He has a precious talent: the ability to materialise mathematical calculations into fantastic watchmaking creations with disconcerting simplicity.

Krayon Anywhere has won the GPHG 2022 Calendar and Astronomy Watch Prize, just four years after while Everywhere was winning the Innovation Prize at the 2018 GPHG for its first creation.

The latest addition to a Krayon’s family of unusual hyper complications, the new Anywhere Métiers d'Art Azur watch creation, with its 432 components, is an ideal of serenity and technical sophistication. It continues in the spirit of the Anywhere Edition Only Watch 2021.

To achieve the effect on the dial of Anywhere Métiers d'Art Azur, a myriad small alveoli have been hollowed out into which a swiss enamelling artist has patiently deposited, by hand, each dab of lacquer until the desired spectrum of blue hues is obtained, producing an outcome of unparalleled finesse.

With its apparent simplicity, its width, its thinness in relation to its complexity (only 5 mm), and its manual winding mechanism, Anywhere’s technical sophistication (432 components, 86 hours of power reserve) leaves its mark on the beholder, surprising them with its ability to define a geographical and temporal space tailored to the wearer.

The full collection of Krayon, Everywhere and Anywhere.

Krayon's second watchmaking creation, Anywhere, indicates the length of the day and the time at which the sun rises and sets. Anywhere defines a customised geographical and temporal space. In this way, Krayon adapts itself to the desires and deeply intimate secrets of the wearer. A reconnection with the primeval rhythms of nature.

Nature never ceases to inspire Rémi, especially when he can practise his passions – other than watchmaking – such as scuba diving and freediving. It was, actually, the fact of getting up too early one morning to explore the seabed that gave him the idea of a watch with a universal sunrise and sunset function.

To integrate this geographical factor, Krayon devised a mechanical positioning system, using rakes and rockers instead of a fixed cam. The relative position of the two sapphire discs is determined not only by the reference position, but also by the calendar.

This is a double calendar, for which all months last 31 days. It therefore requires only five annual adjustments, easily and quickly effected via the crown in both directions. Whilst these sources of inspiration are anchored in the past, Rémi Maillat has reinterpreted them, even transcended them with his contemporary vision.

That Only Watch 2021 is under the sign of the colour orange is serendipitous, as it amplifies tenfold if not a hundredfold what is at the core of Anywhere. At the heart of the large peripheral ring that divides the day into two sections, the dial pays tribute to Claude Monet's masterpiece, Impression, soleil levant – Impression, Rising Sun.

Krayon’s Anywhere indicates the hours and minutes with dedicated hands, placed in the centre of a dial that seems suspended at the heart of the watch. It is surrounded by an annular zone upon which a small sun circulates in perpetual motion, indicating the time over 24 hours. The annular zone has two sectors: day (sky blue) and night (dark blue).

For Rémi Maillat, there is no more intense moment than when one is immersed in the twilight as the sun passes below the horizon. Or when the sun rises at dawn, hinting at the power emanating from its blazing disc.

The watch displays the ephemeris, more precisely the time of sunrise and sunset, at any point on the globe chosen by its wearer. It can be the wearer’s location at that precise moment, the place of birth, the location where loved ones wait, the place where dreams are made or remembered. It can be Anywhere.

Lady Anywhere is available in 18K rose gold, with cream white and pink the dominant tones. The elegant shape of the 39 mm diameter case is highlighted by a flange along the bezel’s underside and over the back cover.

In 2017, Rémi Maillat presented Everywhere, his first creation. A year later, he followed up with the custom-made, Everywhere Horizon, which won the Best Watchmaking Innovation of the Year award at the 2018 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.

Each Anywhere incorporates an equation of time, a secret function that is not shown on the dial.

Thanks the gift from Krayon. The chocolate shows a spectrum of brown; while the watch shows the shades of blue.