Digitrend Open Sapphire
- Swiss made
- 2-year international warranty
- Second batch of 50 out of 150 units to be available soon
- Available globally at our retail partners. Search for the one closest to you here
Presenting the Amida Digitrend Open Sapphire: Discover our future
Ladies and gentlemen, allow us to present a very special timepiece. This is the Amida Digitrend Open Sapphire. It is more than an update to a classic watch. It is the wonderful continuation of a story. A story of innovation, now beautifully resumed.
Amida first shocked the watch world in 1976 with the mechanical Digitrend. A prism at the front turned the jumping-hour disks ninety degrees, so time could be read on the side while driving. Today we pick up that idea and move it forward.
Two-thirds of the new case is clear sapphire grown by the Kyropoulos method. Each piece is shaped and polished for more than twenty hours until it shows no optical distortion. Light floods the movement and makes every edge sharp to the eye.
Inside sits a Soprod Newton automatic base linked to our own in house jump-hour module. The module keeps the original digital display but is built with modern tolerances and Swiss traditional finishing. Wide Geneva stripes, mirror anglage, and tight perlage reward a closer look.
We build this watch in small numbers. It is the work of an independent team that wants to resume Amida’s path of bold ideas and clear function. The Open Sapphire is our statement that innovation is not a one-time event. It is a journey we intend to continue.
The Amida Crew
FUNCTIONS
- Jumping Hours and Sweeping Minutes
- Automatic winding
MOVEMENT
- Caliber : Soprod NEWTON P092, Swiss automatic mechanical winding
- Auxiliary Module : Jumping hour disc developed in-house module with 9 mechanical components and 6 screws
- Jewels : 23 rubies
- Frequency : 28,800 vph (4 Hz)
- Power reserve : 44 hours
- Movement Thickness : 4.6mm
- Auxiliary module: 2mm
- Finishes : Côtes de Genève, sandblasted, circular-grained skeletonized oscillating weight rhodium-plated finishes
- Indications : Dual discs, for hours and minutes (LRD – Light Reflective Display)
CASE
- Material : 316L stainless steel, satin-brushed and polished with Open Sapphire top
- Dimensions : Width 39.6 mm / Length 39 mm / Height 15.6 mm
- Crystal Sapphire : crystal reflective prism
- Water resistance : 5 ATM (50 meters)
STRAP & BRACELET
- Strap & Buckle : Charcoal Alcantara lined in orange calfskin and metal bracelet
- Lug width: 22mm
- Stainless steel buckle, 18mm
- Weight : 110 grams
Discover our future. 2025 marks the great continuation of the AMIDA Digitrend journey: an era of bold innovation and unparalleled commitment to craftsmanship
Introducing broad Geneva stripes, gleaming anglage, and intricate perlage. Each element rewards a closer inspection.
LRD
LIGHT REFLECTING DISPLAY
There is no luminous or electronic display. So what is the secret? AMIDA’s idea is more than ingenious. The readout is actually an optical effect created by a crystal in the shape of a prism.The movement operates horizontally, but the ‘image’ of the hour and minute discs is projected vertically. AMIDA called its system LRD (for Light Reflecting Display), which was patented under No.3,786,626 on April 5, 1973. A remarkable and singular proposition in horology that makes the Digitrend a watch truly extra-ordinary.
JUMPING HOUR
Unidirectional jumping hours and trailing minutes.
SAPPHIRE
CRYSTAL PRISM
An optical grade sapphire crystal prism reflects the horizontal hour and minute discs, displaying them vertically; the prism also magnifies the numerals for better legibility.
UNIQUE REFINEMENTS
Featuring an in-house developed module with a unique dual-disc construction of only 9 components, doubling as both a plate and a casing ring, this modern movement,with the tightest tolerances, incorporates jumping hours for exceptional efficiency and precision. These technical improvements find themselves amplified by aesthetic refinements, like the redesigned minute window and completely redesigned typography–true to the original orange digits emblematic of the70s.
