Vario 1945 A11-S Solar Quartz Field Watch reviewed by Time & Tide

It’s a time-only watch, with large, lume-filled sword hands, and you’ll notice there’s no seconds hand. Well, there is if you look a little closer. Right at the centre, there’s a plate sitting at the top of the hand stack, with a lumed pip that rotates, indicating the seconds. According to Vario, the traditional seconds hand was removed as a symbol of the original purpose of the hacking seconds hand on the A11. It represents a shift away from the tools of war and is envisioned as a symbol of peace instead. This is a subtle message I think we can all get behind.

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