Paula Reis Mediterranean™

A textured dial, and a movement that runs on your arm.

The dial is the reason to buy this one. It is not flat: the wave and wind patterns catch light at different angles, so the watch changes as you move rather than sitting there as a single block of colour. In a photograph it looks like a texture. On a wrist, under a lamp, it moves.

The movement is automatic. A weighted rotor inside turns every time you move your arm, winding the mainspring that drives the hands. There is no battery in it and there never will be. The second hand sweeps rather than ticking once a second — the simplest way to tell a mechanical watch from a quartz one. Leave it in a drawer for two days and it stops, which is what every automatic watch does; a few turns of the crown starts it again.

What you get for 99,90 €

• Self-winding automatic movement — no battery, ever
• Hardlex hardened mineral glass
• Textured wave or wind dial, depending on the version
• Luminous hands and markers
• Water resistance 3 bar — rain and handwashing, not swimming or diving

Buying it here

You are buying from a registered company in Spain with a return address in Madrid, not from an anonymous marketplace listing. Three-year legal guarantee. Thirty days to change your mind. Free tracked shipping, delivered in 2 to 3 weeks, and one person answers the emails.