A version for collectors from the Land of the Rising Sun.

At the Swiss Ambassador's residence in Tokyo, a model called the Andersen Genève Jumping Hours Rising Sun Edition was unveiled to local collectors in the middle of June. The launch may have been dedicated to Japan, but the model doesn't specifically accentuate anything particularly Japanese.

The only reference to the Island Kingdom is in the watch's name, as Japan is known around the world as the Land of the Rising Sun. The brand took a gradual approach to shaping the digital jumping hour aperture seen on this model for Japanese watch aficionados.

The watchmaker moved away from ordinary hands with the 24-hour "jumping" hand seen on the famous Jour & Nuit (first developed by the master for Cartier), and hands were abandoned completely in favor of a sectoral aperture for the Montre à Tact wristwatches manufactured under Andersen Genève's own name.

 Jumping Hours is now one of the leading models in the brand's line: a watch with a small hand on the minute subdial and an hour indication in a window displaying one number (unlike the display on Montre à Tact dials).

In 2020, the brand celebrated its 40th anniversary by launching red-gold and platinum editions of their Jumping Hours. Platinum is also used as the case material for the Jumping Hours Rising Sun Edition for 2023.

This time, cold platinum frames a warm pink-gold dial, hand-engraved with a lozenge-shaped guilloché pattern, referred to as "magical losanges" at Andersen Genève. Another detail you could call "sunny" is the rotor of the watch's Frédéric Piguet 11.50 movement, decorated with a signature ornament.

You can admire this exquisite decoration to your heart's content thanks to the clear sapphire crystal caseback. Like its predecessors, the new edition uses a base movement from a third-party manufacturer, but the jumping-hour mechanism has been fully developed and assembled in-house at the Andersen Genève workshop.

The platinum case measures 38 mm in diameter and 9.22 mm in height. We can only envy Japanese collectors, as availability of this novelty is dramatically limited globally to 50 pieces.