Amida Digitrend OSII

The Digitrend Open Sapphire II is the proof that the original idea was never finished, it was simply waiting for the right moment to evolve.

When Amida shocked the watch world in 1976 with the mechanical Digitrend, it proposed a radical way to read time: a prism turning jumping-hour discs ninety degrees, so the display faced the driver. We resumed that mission with the first Open Sapphire. Now, we take it further.

The full sapphire hood, machined from a single block, no longer just reveals the movement but also it activates it. Light floods through the crystal shell, charges the BGW9 Super-LumiNova indices, and for the first time in Digitrend history the display ignites in the dark. A new DLC-coated steel framework replaces what was once hidden and utilitarian, turning the interior into deliberate architecture.

We build this watch in one hundred and fifty pieces. It is the work of a team that believes the mid-century vision was abandoned too soon, and that the machine they dreamed of making can finally exist. The Open Sapphire Black is not nostalgia. It is a historical correction, and we are just getting started.