The Castaway Koa Wood Watch in Copper

The design inspiration for The Castaway came from my time living on boats in the Ala Wai harbor.  The shape of the watch case represents the bow waves formed from a boat or canoe underway. In the harbor, there's a small window of time when the night overtakes the sunset and a glimmer of copper color melts into the water.  As the light fades, the winds usually calm and you'd hear the gentle sound of the water on the hull of the boat.  The temperature is so perfect, you can't tell where your skin ends.  

The sailing theme continues with the moon-phase window recreating the setting of the Mahealani moon over the Pacific. The crown is shaped after a self-tailing winch on a sailboat and the second hand represents the steering paddle if your sailing should be of the outrigger canoe variety. It's these memories that this design pulls from.

Koa only grows in the Hawaiian islands and we use only the most rare and beautiful "curly" grained Koa. It gives an iradescnese and movement to the wood. We hand finish all the wood in our small shop in Honolulu which ensures the face becomes the crowning jewel.

We design our wood watches and hand finish the Koa wood in our small shop in Honolulu.  We've focused on small batch production so we can guarantee the best quality while providing a wood watch that is truly unique and rare.  We use only the most amazing "curly" grained Koa from the Big Island...the most rare, beautiful, and expensive.  We encase our Koa in an equally worthy case using a stainless body, sapphire crystal, Japanese moon-phase movement.