Pangaea – white/gold

White dial, gold-colored serif numerals, a single hand and nothing else. This is the Pangaea at its most formal.

MeisterSinger describes the Pangaea as arguably its most elegant watch, and the reasoning shows in the details: a curving serif typeface rather than the brand's usual functional type, and hour marks lengthened optically toward the center so the eye is drawn inward. The Münster-designed, Swiss-made collection carries no date and no seconds. The scale does the fine work instead, with markers at the half hours, the quarters and every five minutes, so the needle can be read almost to the minute.

The gold-toned numerals on white make this the dressiest execution of the design. Its 40 mm stainless steel case takes 20 mm lugs, is water resistant to 5 bar, wears a cognac strap and runs the slim Sellita SW300 automatic, specified for exactly the reason you would expect, to keep the case low under a shirt cuff.

A watch for occasions where a busy dial would be the wrong kind of conversation.

Perfect for: white and gold formal watch buyers, black-tie and business dress watches, slim automatic dress watch seekers.