Sponsored: Orient Star — The Practicality and Profound Expressions of M Collections

Photography by Masahiro Okamura
Text & Editing by Yuzo Takeishi
Article first published in the November 2024 issue of Chronos Japan

It’s been one year since Orient Star launched M Collections, a design collection seeking to reconfigure the brand’s high-end line. Over the past year, models sequentially released under this concept have reiterated the brand’s excellent watchmaking technologies and design sensibilities. This season’s new releases are no different: all models are creations worthy of the origin of Orient Star’s name – the desire to create “shining star” watches.

The first and second installments of the collection, released last fall and this spring respectively, not only feature such fully-developed conceptual designs but also showcase the technological prowess required to translate such designs into reality. Elegant dials combining mother-of-pearl with a gradation effect to depict a mystical landscape, or those using optical multilayer technology to create a sense of depth, could only be achieved using the superior dial manufacturing technology of Orient Star’s parent company Epson.

The new models being released this fall follow in the footsteps of these creations, combining Epson’s technologies with conceptual designs to create models that are uniquely Orient Star. A total of four new models have been announced: three models from two lines in the M34 Collection, and one model from the M42 Collection – all updated versions of previous designs that will be released on a limited edition basis. By giving further nuance to the base designs, the new models serve to clarify the concept of each collection.

Both the M34 F7 Mechanical Moon Phase and M34 F7 Semi Skeleton adopt the familiar technique of adorning mother-of-pearl dials with a gradation effect.

The new model incorporates a vertical light grey gradation to depict a mystical scene of both the hero Perseus and the aurora at dawn.

The new models not only offer the excellent practicality that Orient Star is known for but also sophisticated dial designs that cannot be dismissed as mere variations of previous models. As a brand established with the aim of creating “shining star” watches, Orient Star pays tribute to its proud history with these new creations.

Fortunately, for anyone in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom, France or Germany, it has never been easier to buy Orient Star watches from the new M Collections thanks to the brand’s online stores.

For customers in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States: with ORIENT STAR (Orient Star Official Online Store) (orientstar-watch.com).

For customers in the UK, France, and Germany will have each respective sites.

And to learn more, click here.