Back in January we told you about a new line of affordably priced watches by ochs und junior that maintain the brand?s unique design sensibility but control costs by leaving out the potentially expensive customization options they?ve become known for. While not technically part of the “ochs line” of non-customizable affordable watches, ochs und junior’s latest release is very much in that same spirit. The settimana classic black is right in the brand’s wheelhouse, taking a well known complication, in this case a day of the week indicator, and stripping it down to its bare essentials, making it both mechanically and aesthetically simple. 

No surprises here, but the settimana classic black is available in any color you like, as long as it?s black (other versions are available, however). That?s perfectly fine for this watch, though, as it serves to highlight the watch?s complication with a clean white contrasting indicator, matching either Arabic numerals or simple indices at the dial?s perimeter. The complication is pretty easy to understand: there are seven round apertures in a circle in the dial?s interior, and a white dot tracks from one to the next as the week passes on. It lines up at 1:00 on Monday, and then ends at 7:00 on Sunday. The dot jumps between 8:00 and 12:00 when the week resets.
The complication, as implemented here, was invented by ochs und junior?s Ludwig Oeschlin and uses a module on top of a Sellita SW200-1 moveme...