Akhor’s Nour La Lumière is a watch built around movement in more than one sense.
The Geneva-based independent has taken its patented disc architecture and added a 24-hour Day/Night indication, turning the dial into a slow-moving desert scene rather than a conventional complication display.
It’s also a telling second step for a young Maison with unusually deep technical roots.
At a glance
- Akhor has introduced Nour La Lumière, a 10-piece addition to Le Temps en Équilibre with a 24-hour Day/Night display.
- The watch uses a three-disc construction with a hand-engraved desert scene and a miniature-painted dromedary and rider.
- Prices start at CHF 198,000 including VAT, with five pieces in 18-carat 5N red gold and five in platinum.
A Geneva independent with micromechanical foundations
Akhor was founded by Anissa Bader, whose family owns Clamax, the Geneva micromechanical company established in 1988.
Bader has led Clamax since 2020, and that industrial know-how sits directly behind Akhor’s watchmaking ambitions.
Nour La Lumière joins the inaugural Le Temps en Équilibre collection, carrying forward the brand’s dual-disc concept while expanding it with a third rotating display.
The name draws from the Arabic word “Nour”, meaning light, which appears discreetly hand-engraved in Arabic script on the case back.
The Day/Night disc becomes a miniature desert
The complication completes one rotation every 24 hours, using a large disc to show the transition from day into night.
Rather than using a simple sun and moon aperture, Akhor has built the indication as a desert landscape with dunes, stars, a moon, and a dromedary rider that gradually come into view as the disc turns.
The dunes, moon and stars are engraved by hand in bas-relief, giving the scene depth across a surface measured in millimetres.
Depending on the version, the Day/Night disc is made in either 5N gold or platinum, two materials that behave differently under the engraver’s tools and in changing light.
The dromedary and rider are painted by hand using brushes with only a few bristles, with colour, volume, highlights and shadow built up through successive layers.
Reworking the patented disc architecture
Adding the Day/Night indication required more than placing another decorative element on the dial.
The third disc changed the movement’s mass, equilibrium and energy requirements, so the architecture had to be recalculated around the new display.
Inside the 12.5 mm-thick cushion case, each of the three discs has its own precisely defined position, with tolerances measured to hundredths of a millimetre.
The result is a complication that reads poetically on the dial but depends on highly controlled mechanical geometry underneath.
Case, calibre and finishing
Nour La Lumière is housed in a 40 mm cushion-shaped case, offered in 18-carat 5N red gold or platinum.
Both versions use a polished bezel set with 120 baguette-cut diamonds totalling 4.85 carats, with further diamond setting on the folding clasp.
The watch is paired with a hand-stitched blue alligator leather strap and protected by a sapphire crystal with internal anti-reflective coating.
Inside is the AK10, a hand-wound calibre developed exclusively for Akhor and manufactured by Clamax.
The movement was conceived as an evolving platform for additional complications, which makes the Day/Night version feel less like an add-on and more like the next expression of the architecture.
Measuring 31.3 mm wide and 3.9 mm thick, the AK10 has 126 components, 12 jewels, a variable-inertia balance beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour, and a 60-hour power reserve.
It also includes hacking seconds for more precise time-setting.
Visible through the sapphire case back, the calibre is finished with anglage, fan-shaped Côtes de Genève, decorated wheels and cushion-shaped screws.
The technical validation is unusually layered, with COSC chronometer certification for the movement, component compliance with the Poinçon de Genève, and finished-watch certification by the Observatoire Chronométrique de Genève.
Details & Specifications
| Brand | Akhor |
|---|---|
| Model | Nour La Lumière |
| Collection | Le Temps en Équilibre |
| References | AK-10-AU-JN in 5N gold, AK-10-PT-JN in platinum |
| Case size | 40 mm |
| Case thickness | 12.5 mm |
| Case material | 18-carat 5N red gold or platinum |
| Bezel | 120 baguette-cut diamonds totalling 4.85 carats |
| Crystal | Sapphire with internal anti-reflective coating |
| Water resistance | 30 metres / 100 feet |
| Display | Three-disc architecture with 24-hour Day/Night indication |
| Movement | AK10 hand-wound mechanical calibre |
| Movement dimensions | 31.3 mm diameter, 3.9 mm thickness |
| Components | 126 components, 12 jewels |
| Frequency | 28,800 vibrations per hour / 4 Hz |
| Power reserve | 60 hours |
| Certification | COSC-certified movement, Poinçon de Genève component requirements, Observatoire Chronométrique de Genève finished-watch certification |
| Strap | Hand-stitched blue alligator leather with diamond-set folding clasp |
| Production | 10 pieces, split equally between 5N gold and platinum |
| Price | CHF 198,000 including VAT in 5N gold, CHF 208,000 including VAT in platinum |
For collectors drawn to independent watchmaking, Nour La Lumière offers a very specific proposition: a certified mechanical platform, a patented display architecture and a piece of miniature handcraft that changes over the course of the day.
It’s intimate, technically deliberate and clearly aimed at those who want their complication to carry atmosphere as well as information.
