Bulova Frank Lloyd Wright David & Gladys Wright House 38mm 96B486

The Bulova Frank Lloyd Wright 96B486 is a numbered limited edition of 750 pieces worldwide, built around one of the most unusual houses Wright ever designed — and it commits to the reference far more thoroughly than most architectural tributes manage.The David and Gladys Wright House was completed in Phoenix in the early 1950s, designed by Wright for his son and daughter-in-law, and it does something almost nothing else in American domestic architecture does: it spirals. The building rises off the desert floor on a curving ramp, coiling around itself in the same geometric language Wright was exploring for the Guggenheim in the same period. That spiral is the organising idea of this watch.

The 38mm silver-tone stainless steel case is deliberately restrained, because the dial does the work. It's layered rather than flat, with the geometric pattern of the house's original rug recreated across its surface in green, and the time is traced by hour and minute discs travelling around a dimensional sloped ring at the periphery — a display that mirrors the building's circular form rather than sitting on top of it. Anti-reflective sapphire crystal keeps the detail readable.

The brown pebble-grain leather strap carries two-stitch detailing and the same rug motif embossed into its underside, and the caseback is engraved with the house's name. An automatic movement drives it, winding from the motion of your wrist with a 42-hour power reserve and no battery, and the caseback carries the house's name alongside your watch's individual number out of 750. This is a watch for someone who will recognise the reference — and it rewards them at every point they look.

What we love about this watch: Most architect tribute watches print a building on a dial and call it done. This one translates the architecture into the way the watch actually functions — a spiral house becomes a circular, layered, disc-driven display, with the interior rug appearing on both the dial and inside the strap where only the wearer sees it. That last detail is the tell. Somebody who understood Wright made this, and it's the kind of thing that makes a watch worth owning rather than just wearing.

Ships in 1-3 Business Days from Sydney with Australia Post Express. Sydney customers can pick up on the same day from our Alexandria showroom an hour after placing the order by choosing Click & Collect as the delivery option. 

3 Year warranty from Bulova Watches (Australia). StarBuy are Authorised distributors of Bulova Watches. All Bulova Watches are shipped in Bulova original packaging released for Australia. All Bulova warranties are registered online on the Bulova Warranty Portal directly by StarBuy on behalf of the customer. After purchase and shipping by StarBuy, an email is sent by Bulova registering the warranty directly to the buyer. A link to the online instructions manual is also sent within the email. Bulova no longer supply any hard copies of the warranty booklet or the instructions manual.

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