NAOS PRO Automatic anthracite silver / link bracelet 20 silver

Anthracite behaves like black until light hits it directly. Then it turns to smoke, and the silver hands step forward out of it.

The NAOS PRO is the most mechanically ambitious version of the core Sternglas design. The Naos dial has always been an exercise in leaving things out, and the Pro keeps that discipline while putting a serious automatic movement behind it. Sternglas has designed in Hamburg since 2016 on the principle that good design should not be a privilege, and the Naos remains its clearest statement of that idea.

Here the anthracite dial sits inside a polished 316L stainless steel case of 38 mm under a domed sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective coating. A Miyota 9015 automatic drives the hands and the date, and the case is rated to 5 bar. The 20 mm steel link bracelet closes with a butterfly clasp and adjusts between 130 and 180 mm, so the finished watch reads as one continuous run of metal from clasp to dial.

A full-steel automatic in a genuinely modest diameter, for anyone who finds 40 mm and upward excessive.

Perfect for: gray dial automatic watches, 38 mm steel bracelet watches, minimalist Bauhaus design fans.