Someone always clocks it first — a flash of electric blue where a watch face should be, catching the light like it's got somewhere to be. Then the question:what is that?.
Electric blue hands sweep across a mirrored dial that seems to spark with its own charge, catching the light like static before a storm. It's the boldest way we've ever told the time — and like every Edward Christopher® watch, it comes with a £35 donation to a children's charity of your choosing, built into every order.
Our Imperial Violet Special Edition sold out in 72 hours. And every colourway batch is capped. So join the waitlist for first look before we announce anything publicly.
The standard Ripple is bold, colourful, conversation-starting. The Special Edition is something else. Something quieter. More unsettling.
Where the coloured Ripples wear their character openly, the Special Edition keeps its secrets. An all-steel, fully mirrored 3D dial — no colour, no distraction, just pure sculpted form catching the light in ways that are genuinely difficult to explain to someone who hasn't seen it in person.
And then there are the hands. Where every other Ripple has silver hands, the first Special Edition carried violet — our brand colour — as a signature. The only colour on the watch. It shouldn't work as well as it does.
But now, with the new Special Edition ranges, there will be NEW matching colour hands & rotors (see above).
Hodinkee called the depth and individuality of the mirrored dial "truly beyond comparison." We thought that was rather good. So we kept it.
"Edward Christopher is coming in hot with a 25-piece, limited-edition watch unlike anything I've seen before. A 38mm slice of '70s integrated-bracelet design frames the hypnotic dial of this aptly named model, the 'Ripple'.
"A mirrored, 3D-rippled dial emanating from the logo creates depth and individuality that are truly beyond comparison.".
"Edward Christopher not only brings a limited-edition model but also an entirely new model range. The Ripple is unlike anything Edward Christopher has made before, yet it still emphasises stunning colours.
"The 38mm stainless steel case mixes elements of dress and sports watches with a captivating dial. The 3D mirror dial mimics rippling water radiating from the brand’s logo. Notches around the bezel provide the hour markers without disturbing the mesmerising effect."
There's a name behind every Special Edition, too
Edward Christopher® isn't a name we invented. It belongs to two real British men — Edward and Christopher — who, entirely separately, each saved the life of a child in danger.
Every watch we sell triggers a meaningful donation to support children and young people in need.
The Special Edition is no different — except that, being produced in numbered limited edition runs, each one carries that purpose in a more concentrated form than anything else we've produced so far.
Limited edition watches. Heartfelt donations. Even moire great conversations waiting to happen.
The Special Edition's mirrored 3D dial is a fully sculpted, custom-made surface — concentric rings radiating outward from the Edward Christopher® logo motif at the centre, like a carefully crafted stone dropped into still water.
But without colour to guide the eye, the mirrored finish does something even more mesmerising than our coloured edition Ripples. It reflects. It shifts. It responds to the light around it, and to the movement of your wrist. One moment understated, the next — extraordinary.
Under an anti-glare sapphire crystal, you'll find yourself looking at it far more than you need to.
The Special Editions shares the Ripple's core design philosophy — restraint in service of dramatic visuals.
No complications. No bezel. 12 angular cuts marking the inner case edge at 5-minute intervals: present enough to read the time, invisible enough to let the dial rule.
The motif-topped screw-down crown sits at 4 o'clock — the most naturally accessible position on your wrist, keeping the case profile clean from every angle.
Inside, the Miyota 9039 automatic movement delivers reliable, precise timekeeping with a 42-hour power reserve.
Through the sapphire crystal exhibition caseback, you'll see the custom-made vented rotor — designed exclusively for Edward Christopher®, finished in one of our Special Edition colours.
It's the only other place that colour lives on this watch. And it glows. Because the engraved lines on the rotor are filled with Super-LumiNova BGW9 — visible only to you, through the caseback, in the dark.
Something beautiful that only the owner knows about. That feels right for a watch like this.
The integrated brushed 316L stainless steel bracelet is custom-made to follow the Special Edition case's curves exactly.
So you have polished chamfers, quick-release system, and a micro-adjust clasp engraved with the Edward Christopher® logo in violet on the outside and the full brand name on the inside.
Not only that, but with 8 bracelet links (all of them with grown-up, sophisticated link screws — no split pins) on each side, this watch enables you to change the sizing to fit women's and men's wrists (14.5cm-23.5cm / 5.7in-9.25in).
Standard 20mm lug spacing means the day you want a different look, you've got one.
BGW9 Super-LumiNova on all three coloured leaf hands.
A solid block of lume on the Edward Christopher® logo on the dial.
And those engraved lines on the custom matching colour rotor — glowing blue/green in the dark behind the case back.
A watch with a secret. Three of them, actually.
† The Ripple bracelet shown in preview images is an exact digital render of the new president-style design