Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Artya Unveils Exclusive Watch with Quadricoloured Sapphire Bezel for Dubai Watch Week 2025
A unique piece featuring a four-colour sapphire bezel in the colour of UAE, and a 10-piece LE in green sapphire.
Artya, the brand created by Yvan Arpa, is never shy to break the rules and to create watches with impressive character. Even though recent models have toned things down a bit, specifically the sleek and organic Purity Wavy or Luminity Wavy, the family-run business is always answering the call for innovation and creativity. As part of the many special edition watches released in collaboration with retailer Ahmed Seddiqi and in the frame of Dubai Watch Week 2025, Artya introduces two sporty, sapphire-made watches, including a rather groundbreaking, unique piece based on its AquaSaphir with a four-colour sapphire bezel representing the national colours of the United Arab Emirates.
At first, the AquaSaphir resembles a dive watch, with its notched bezel and 60-minute scale. Well, it is a bit of a different story, and it’s all about the design of a sports watch mixed with extensive use of sapphire crystal, with some compromises, including still-decent but not dive-ready water-resistance and a bezel that’s fixed. But going deep underwater isn’t the goal of this collection. Like many watches by Artya, the AquaSaphir is a statement piece. And one of the two versions made with Seddiqi is certainly a strong statement.
Technically speaking and design-wise, these UAE editions are nothing different from the models we’ve reviewed a couple of years ago. This means a 41mm watch with a fixed bezel in sapphire, including a 60-minute scale, and made entirely of sapphire crystal – case middle, top and bottom crystals, crown, bezel… Water-resistance is rated at 60 meters, and the watch is powered by a La Joux-Perret G100, a solid automatic movement with 68-hour power reserve, here with a specific dark theme and a customised gold-toned rotor.
What’s unique to these editions is the case, bezel and dial. Let’s start with the latter, which is made out of sparkling aventurine glass with applied markers and hands filled with SLN, and bearing the UAE flag at 6 o’clock, as well as an Arabic inscription meaning “Limited Edition, Dubai Edition.” Then come the differences between the classic 10-piece limited edition and the unique version. The limited model is made of emerald green sapphire, used on all parts of the case. The material, extremely hard, is polished by hand for maximum transparency and, despite the tinted green effect, it retains all technical properties of white sapphire.
The second version, a bold unique piece, and five years after introducing the first Bicolour NanoSapphire case middle, Artya now presents a single-block bezel in four different colours. And as a tribute to the country where Dubai Watch Week will take place, the hues are precisely arranged on the bezel sapphire element to recreate the UAE flag. This was made possible by using a NanoSapphire treatment, which treats the material at a molecular level. To reinforce the effect, this version uses a black sapphire crystal case middle, providing contrast with the bezel.
Worn on a black rubber strap, these Artya AquaSaphir Dubai Editions are available from the brand or retailer Ahmed Seddiqi. The limited green model retails for CHF 49,900, while the unique quadri-colour piece is priced at CHF 79,900. For more details, please visit www.artya.com.
