For 25 years, the Münster-based German brand MeisterSinger has stood for a more relaxed perception of time, expressed through its exclusively mechanical, single-hand watches. Most watch brands mark anniversaries with bigger, louder, more complicated pieces. MeisterSinger did the opposite. The Unitas 1Z Edition looks back at one of its earliest and most important releases: the original Edition 1Z from 2004, the brand’s first watch with an enamel dial. The name itself tells you what you need to know: 1Z stands for 1 Zeiger, German for one hand. Everything about this piece is a considered return to origin.
The Dial
The white enamel dial is brought to life through a highly complex, multi-day process that only a handful of specialists still master today. Finely ground enamel powder is applied to a copper base and fired repeatedly in a kiln at around 800°C, each firing a risk, each rejection a dial that will never reach a wrist. The design echoes historic pocket watches, with MeisterSinger’s signature double-digit typography, slender hour markers, and five-minute interval dots throughout. An inner ring of blue-coloured numerals adds a subtle graphic layer, a quiet reminder that within every hour of a lifetime sit sixty priceless minutes. A single heat-blued steel hand, long and slightly curved, sweeps across the whole composition. It is the only hand it needs.
The Movement
The Unitas 1Z Edition is powered by the legendary Unitas 6497 pocket watch calibre, a movement now found only very rarely in wristwatches. For this edition, the bridges have been opened and redesigned, decorated with Geneva stripes and blued screws, and the movement features a swan-neck regulator for fine adjustment. Running at 21,600 vibrations per hour for enhanced rate stability, it offers approximately 46 hours of power reserve. The exhibition sapphire caseback means none of that finishing goes unseen; it is meant to be looked at.
The Case and the Strap
The 40mm stainless steel case, developed specifically for this enamel edition, is polished and brushed, water-resistant to 50 metres, and fitted with sapphire crystals front and back. It sits on an ice-blue leather strap with a crocodile skin pattern, a colour choice that picks up on the blue numerals and the blued steel hand without announcing itself loudly. The whole thing holds together with the restraint of something that has been thought about for a long time.
Priced at EUR 6,990 and limited to 25 pieces, available from Q2 2026. Twenty-five watches for twenty-five years. It is not a coincidence, it is a statement about what this anniversary is actually for.
