Last year at around this time (almost to the day, in fact) we brought you a story that turned out to be one of my personal favorites of the entire year. The Zelos Mirage was completely unexpected: a tourbillon (Swiss, no less) from a brand that specializes in ultra affordable, design forward tool watches. The Mirage was very much a passion project for brand founder Elshan Tang, and as we detailed last year, he made it in large part because of a personal fascination with tourbillons that he?s harbored from the beginning. While the Mirage is unlike any other watch in the collection, it shares an aesthetic with Zelos?s affordable watches, and to fans of the brand would provide plenty of clear links to earlier projects. Even with a starting price of around $11,000 (a lot for a Zelos, but very affordable for a tourb), the run sold out in a flash. Now a follow up is available – but where do you go after starting with a tourbillon" 
The answer comes in the form of the Mirage 2, a watch with a skeletonized movement boasting an 8 day power reserve, in a variety of unusual case materials (a Zelos hallmark at this point). Like the original Mirage, the sequel seeks to make the exotic a bit more approachable without compromising Zelos?s signature style. 
For the movement of the Mirage 2, Zelos is once again working with La Joux-Perret. The caliber features twin barrels that provide a total of 8 days of reserve, and have been given a customized turbine skeletonizat...