Krayon Turns the Anywhere Into a Magnolia Study in Onyx and Platinum

Krayon’s Anywhere has always treated time as something tied to place, light and season rather than hours alone.

The new Anywhere Magnolia pushes that idea into a more intimate register, using a hand-painted onyx dial to capture the brief spring bloom of a magnolia tree near the brand’s Neuchâtel manufacture.

Limited to 15 pieces in platinum, it’s a poetic entry in Krayon’s growing line of Métiers d’Art watches, but the artistry isn’t just decorative.

At a glance

• Krayon has introduced the Anywhere Magnolia, a 15-piece Métiers d’Art edition of its sunrise and sunset watch.
• The black onyx dial is hand-painted with magnolia blossoms, while two moving petals indicate sunrise and sunset.
• The watch is cased in platinum, powered by Krayon’s manually wound C030 calibre and priced upon request.

A magnolia tree translated into time

The Magnolia edition takes its inspiration from a tree standing opposite Krayon’s manufacture in Neuchâtel.

Its blossoms appear for only a few weeks each spring, then rain and gravity begin to scatter the petals, leaving some on the branches and sending others towards the ground.

Krayon has turned that passing scene into a miniature composition on deep black onyx, with painted petals arranged across the dial surface.

Each dial features slight variations in the placement of the petals, giving every watch its own scene rather than a repeated pattern.

There’s also a quiet brand signature hidden in the composition, where three individual petals subtly form the letter Y from Krayon’s logo.

The Anywhere complication beneath the petals

The charm of the Anywhere Magnolia is that its most lyrical detail is also part of the mechanism.

Two magnolia petals serve as the key indicators for Krayon’s sunrise and sunset complication.

The upward-pointing petal on the left marks sunrise, while the downward-facing petal on the right marks sunset.

As the date and month change, the petals travel around the dial to track variations in daylight throughout the year for a location chosen by the owner.

The 24-hour scale sits on the rehaut, while the sector between the two petals represents the duration of daylight.

A small sun indicates the time on the 24-hour display, and the date and month share a subdial at six o’clock.

It’s a thoughtful use of Métiers d’Art because the painting doesn’t sit apart from the complication.

The dial’s natural imagery gives visual form to what the watch is actually measuring.

A continuing Métiers d’Art thread

The Anywhere Magnolia follows a line of artistic Anywhere creations in which Krayon has used decorative craft to explore light, landscape and atmosphere.

The story began with a unique Anywhere for Only Watch 2021, featuring a miniature-painted interpretation of Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise.

In 2022, the Anywhere Métiers d’Art Azur used miniature painting and enamel work to build a dial in multiple shades of blue.

Krayon later explored pointillism through an Only Watch reinterpretation of Théo van Rysselberghe, while the Anywhere Arborea drew on the atmosphere of Henri Rousseau’s The Virgin Forest at Sunset.

The Parhelion then carried the complication into gem-setting, with a design inspired by a rare atmospheric light phenomenon.

Seen in that context, Magnolia feels like one of Krayon’s most personal interpretations yet, less museum reference than daily observation.

Details & Specifications

The Anywhere Magnolia should appeal to collectors who value independent mechanics but want the complication to carry a stronger emotional charge.

It’s still a Krayon Anywhere at heart, but here the changing length of a day is expressed through something as fragile as a fallen petal.