Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Akhor Releases the New Day/Night Nour La Lumière
Building on the brand’s two-disc dial, a third disc with a day/night complication animates the Saharan scenery of the dial.
Akhor is a new Geneva indie brand carving a niche for high-end watchmaking, poetic design and top-end finishing. A collective project founded by Anissa Bader in 2025, Akhor is built around its floating dial architecture with a patented two-disc construction by sister company Clamax, a Geneva-based component and micromechanics manufacturer. Writing the next chapter, the Nour la Lumière adds a third disc to the composition, introducing a day/night indicator to animate the Saharan-inspired scenery.
The brand’s floating dial architecture, in which the hour and minute hands are largely hidden beneath a suspended central disc, debuted on the Le Temps en Equilibre, driven by the proprietary AK10 manual-winding movement. The illusion of suspension is created by a central cylinder concealing the centre pinion. A year later, Akhor introduced a radiant white version of the watch, with two Lumière Blanche editions and a COSC-certified chronometer movement, followed just a few months later by two-tone models with Poinçon de Genève-certified movements.
The new Nour la Lumière, inspired by CEO and founder Anissa Bader’s North African roots, translates the Arabic word for light (nour) into the dial with a day/night complication set against evocative desert-inspired scenery, featuring dunes and the figure of a lone dromedary rider. The third disc, placed beneath the hands, completes a rotation every 24 hours, revealing daytime with a gold or platinum disc representing the Sun and nighttime with a starry moonlit sky. Entirely crafted by hand, the dunes, the sun, the moon and stars are engraved in bas relief while the dromedary and rider are painted by hand.
The tips of the hour and minute hands with luminescent inserts, either gold-plated or rhodium-plated, peek out from underneath the suspended central plate and point to the peripheral chapter ring with applied stars and dots. The only sign of Akhor branding is on the counterweight of the central seconds hand.
Marginally larger than the time-only editions, the Nour la Lumière shares the same cushion-shaped case, with a diameter of 40mm and a thickness of 12.5mm. Presented in 18k red gold or platinum, the polished bezel is set with 120 baguette-cut diamonds. Decorated with satin-brushed finishings and polished accents on the bezel and top sides of the lugs, the crown stands out with hobnail knurling to enhance grip during manual winding. Water-resistant to 30 metres, the dial is protected by a sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, and the movement can be viewed through the sapphire crystal on the caseback.
Akhor’s proprietary AK10 calibre, conceived to evolve and adopt complications, increases in complexity with a third disc. Decorated with hand-engraved and painted details, the incorporation of the third disc required new calculations in energy transmission and mass distribution. Maintaining its 4Hz frequency, robust 60-hour power reserve, and hacking seconds, the manual-winding AK10 features refined hand-finishing such as anglage, fan-shaped Geneva stripes, and the brand’s distinctive cushion-shaped screws. In addition to the COSC chronometer and Poinçon de Genève certifications, the Nour La Lumière also carries the Chronometer Certificate of the Observatoire Chronométrique de Genève, awarded to the finished watch.
The watches are paired with blue hand-stitched alligator straps and diamond-set platinum or red gold folding clasps. Limited to 10 pieces in each metal, the caseback is engraved with an Arabic inscription. Price to be confirmed. More information at akhor.ch.
