Swiss watchmaker Angelus traces its origins all the way back to 1891 but its most recent revival began in 2015, after a long post-Quartz Crisis hiatus. In the years since, it has become known for its boldly avant-garde designs and idiosyncratic takes on classic complications. The latest examples can be found in the new U23 models ? eight unique pieces, with openworked flying tourbillon calibers housed in high-tech carbon-titanium cases and featuring colorways inspired by classic cocktails.

U23 “Blue Lagoon”

The U23 “Carbon Cocktail” watches (as they have been playfully nicknamed) are descendants of Angelus’s existing U21 and U22 models, equipped with the skeletonized Caliber A-250, noted for its prominent flying tourbillon and mainplate made from a hard yet lightweight composite material called Carbon Thin Ply (CTP). The U22 was the first in the collection to use the combination of CTP and titanium in its case, the same materials used in the new U23. What sets the new models apart are their skeletonized, PVD-treated titanium bridges, each in colorful executions intended to evoke the spirit, if you will, of a popular mixologist’s concoction.
U23 “Cosmopolitan” (left) and “Manhattan”

Framed inside 42-mm-diameter round cases, under a box-style sapphire crystal, these colored bridges are screwed into the CTP mainplate that acts as the dial; their shades are each tailored to graphically represent the ingredi...