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G O S
Skadi
GoS combines a distinctive black Damascus steel
case with red gold and a glacier-blue luminous
mother-of-pearl dial. The Swedish company’s
co-founder and designer Patrik Sjögren says he
has melded all these materials and techniques
together into one watch to recall the primary
colors and to illustrate the landscape ruled by
Skadi, the winter goddess in Norse mythology.
Skadi, made as a limited edition of five
watches, continues Sjögren’s horological trek
across Sweden and its natural beauty, which has
included stops in the Scandinavian country’s
forests, glaciers and mountains.
As with so many GoS watches, Skadi’s
44.5mm case and its lugs are engraved. Here,
GoS matches those engravings with similar
engravings on the manual-wind movement. Both
are done by master knifemaker Anders Hedlund,
who also does the engraving work on the GoS
Sarek Trollius. Here, Hedlund engraves both the
sides of the lugs with a Viking knot pattern and
the Damascus steel movement bridges.
With Skadi, GoS introduces local craftsman to
the GoS collective. Master goldsmith Peter deWit
cast the gold parts for the Skadi case and also fit
the blue sapphires in all the dial’s indexes and in
the crown.
You may recall that GoS developed its
specialized black Damascus steel last year when
it teamed with Singer Reimagined to create
the Track1 Black Damascus for the Only Watch
charity auction. GoS says that its particular dark
PVD coating emphasizes the patterns in the
Damascus while also reflecting the light.
Echoing the impressive dial illumination
technique developed by Patrik Sjögren and
introduced in the Sarek Glacier earlier this year,
the Skadi dial is made from white mother-of-pearl
that is both colored and backlit thanks to a dollop
of SuperLuminova beneath.
GoS will make five Skadi watches, each
delivered on a moose leather strap and fitted
with a Swiss-made 18-karat gold folding buckle.
Each watch arrives in a Swedish walnut box
handcrafted near GoS headquarters. Price:
$42,000.
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