Lausanne-based CODE41 started 2021 with a bang. Launching its attention-grabbing NB24 at the start of the year, the brand best known for lifting the curtain on traditional luxury watchmaking since its meteoric rise at the beginning ot 2016, has gone on to build even more excitement around its horological projects.

This week, CODE41 launches its latest project for the year, which represents the next generation of the popular X41collection. The launch ushers in the fifth edition of the X41 series since its debut in March 2019 ? with subsequent releases in November 2019 and July 2020 completely selling out during their pre-order campaigns ? and demonstrates CODE41’s persistent and sustained interest in the series’ unconventional design.
Like the models that have preceded it, the X41 Edition 5 will stick with the formula that has brought it so much success until now: namely, an exclusive design and architecture built in collaboration with, and exclusively for, the CODE41 community, as well as a novel mechanical movement complete with a peripheral oscillating weight? an extremely technical feature currently mastered by very few brands. The movement itself is designed, produced, and assembled entirely by hand in Switzerland in short production runs. In total, including the movement, the watch is composed of 90% Swiss components, executed to the finest of luxury standards at the level of watches that are up to four times as expensive.

The X41 Edi...