RJ, né Romain Jerome, kicked off its collaboration with Warner Bros. and DC Comics in 2014, producing the first Batman-DNA watch. This year, after a detour into the Marvel Universe for 2018’s Spider-Man limited edition, the Swiss producer of pop culturally influenced timepieces returns to the mean streets of DC’s Gotham City to launch two new limited editions based on Batman’s archfoes the Joker and Two-Face.
RJ ARRAW Joker Watch (Ref.1C45C.TTTR.0629.AR.JOK18)
Both of the watches come in 45-mm brushed titanium cases, designed in the ARRAW style characteristic of the RJ brand’s base collection, which is distinguished by four rubber bumpers, distinctively shaped curving lugs, and arrow-shaped hands. In most other respects, the watches are as distinct from each other as the two Bat-foes they represent, one equipped with a self-winding chronograph caliber and the other a manually winding movement that has been specially skeletonized to reflect its namesake’s schizophrenic nature and appearance. Each of the 100 ARRAW The Joker watch models features individually painted dials reflecting the visage of the Clown Prince of Crime, no two exactly alike. Two black subdials represent the villain’s eyes, surrounded by an airbrushed field of white that fades at the edges, approximating the pasty look of the Joker’s face with its haphazardly applied clown makeup. The 9 o’clock subdial tallies 30 elapsed chronograph minutes, running seconds t...