The hands are adapted to this abyssal depth as well, sprouting upward from a central hub at the bottom layer of the dial before sharply bending outwards to their more traditional positions. This offers even more unique light and shadow play in changing conditions, something I often caught myself stopping to admire.

Ironically, the only major issue with the Minimal Edition’s dial is that it’s not quite minimal enough—the date window thrusts upward from the three o’clock “step” like an old-fashioned well, interrupting the steady flow of the staircase and offering a somewhat jarring profile from an angle. The hole of this well plunges down to expose a large segment of the date wheel and a sliver of the movement itself—almost an open heart. However, it suffers for its indecision: too wide for a date window, but not wide enough to show anything of substance in the movement, it comes off feeling almost sloppy in the midst of the architectural order of the rest of the dial.

A no-date would have served this watch far better. Similarly, the watch would be attractive with a sterile dial, but the bas-relief 22 emblem fits into the overall aesthetic nicely without nearly the same disruption as the date.