ArtyA Celebrates Halloween With Creepy And Clever Black Widow Watch
Elizabeth Doerr, editor-in-chief and co-founder of QuillandPad.com
Swiss boutique brand Artya pays tribute to American Halloween with its latest unique piece from the Son of a Gun line called Black Widow. Like the other watches in this range, it is powered by a movement that has been machine-skeletonized – though this time, the magical, fully visible (thanks to the absence of a dial) skeletonization creepily designed to look like a giant spider web houses a scary metal monster: a large black spider. Housed in a 44 mm stainless steel case, this automatic-winding unique piece is available for 6,400 Swiss francs.
This is not the first time Artya director and artistic designer Yvan and Dominique Cielka-Arpa have designed a creepy timepiece for Halloween, though: back in 2017 the duo released a guitar-shaped mechanical tribute to the world of rock and roll, whose impressive case was shaped like a guitar. And it harbored more than “just” the time shown by gold “string” hands – it also used genuine blood as a decorative element. See it and another scary piece in Shocking Wristwatches Have Dial With Genuine Blood As Artya Celebrates Halloween.
Artya Black Widow
All of ArtyA’s timepieces are unique works of art. Please visit Artya’s website for more information or to commission your own unique watch.