Faithful readers may remember when Zach Weiss reviewed the Atowak Ettore Drift a little more than a year ago. This affordable wandering hour watch had a modern, even futuristic, aesthetic, and employed a rarely seen complication using a humble Miyota movement as a base. The Ettore Drift, inspired largely by automotive design, had a bold, colorful look and executed the wandering hour effect in just about the simplest way possible, hiding most of the ?wandering? behind a large plate. Not exactly Urwerk levels of finesse, but impressive nonetheless at a $1,200 price point. Now, with their follow up watch, they?ve upped the stakes a bit, putting more of the mechanics on display in a design that really does recall watches that are considerably more expensive and made with custom, in-house movements. 
The new watch, dubbed the Cobra, replaces the rotating hour wheels of the Ettore Drift with a revolving satellite hour wheel. There are a total of three wheel arms in constant rotation, and each arm has a sharp pointer at the end that reads the minutes via a scale located near the bottom of the case. The hour block at the end of each arm rotates 120 degrees as each hour passes as it moves around the ?dial? (that word seems to be somewhat meaningless with this watch, but you get the idea), landing in the correct position as each hour passes. 
The Cobra immediately appears more complex than the drift because so much more of the rotating time telling elements are on display...