Zenith

While Zenith isn’t typically known for its calendar watches — it’s much more renowned for its chronographs — the brand made an interesting detour through the land of complications in the 2010s with the Captain Windsor line. It’s outfitted with a mechanism developed by famed watchmaker Dr. Ludwig Oechslin, whose technology has featured both in Ulysse Nardin designs as well as in watches from his own brand, Ochs und Junior.

This particular Captain Windsor features a unique annual calendar with an unusual dial configuration and is powered by the Oechslin-modified Zenith El Primero Calibre 4054, an automatic movement with a lateral clutch and column wheel for smooth operation. It’s an impressive design that can be viewed via a sapphire case back, which needs manual adjusting just once a year in February. This calendar watch from one of the world’s most renowned chronograph manufacturers is a wildly good value, in addition to being an impressive piece of horological engineering.

This Captain Windsor Annual Calendar reference 22.2071.4054 is a rose gold automatic wristwatch with chronograph and annual calendar from the late 2010s, and is housed in a 42 mm 18K rose gold case with diamond-set, a signed crown, dual "cushion" pushers and bezel with diamond-set. It features a satin silver "hobnail" dial with gold applied indices, a matching "dauphine" handset, day and month apertures at 3 o’clock, a date window at 6 o’clock, seconds window at 9 o’clock and a 60-minute chronograph window at above 6 o’clock. Non-branded black leather strap with a 18K rose gold pin buckle. This watch comes with a non-Zenith box only.

Fits a wrist size of 8 inches or smaller.