There’s a moment every watch brand hits where it has a choice: follow the playbook, or write a new one.

The last few years have seen once-rare watchmaking ideas become almost expected. Exhibition casebacks. Decorative finishing. Stone dials. All impressive — but increasingly familiar. When toledano&chan began work on their fourth release, they initially went down that road too, prototyping a traditional stone dial.

And then they stopped.

Because creativity isn’t about picking a material from a catalogue — it’s about asking why something exists in the first place. The result of that pause, and that refusal to settle, is the b/1.3r and its defining feature: the ripple dial.

Machined from solid 18k gold, the ripple dial is inspired by the surface of moving water; subtle, architectural, and alive with shifting light. It’s not decorative for decoration’s sake; it’s structural, sculptural, and completely unique to this watch.

The b/1.3r continues the design language that has defined toledano&chan since day one. Founders Alfred (Hong Kong) and Phillip (New York) first connected online, bonding over brutalist architecture and the unapologetic forms of 1970s watch design.

Key inspirations include the Rolex Midas, early integrated-bracelet watches, and — most importantly — Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum in New York, particularly the geometry of its iconic window forms.

The result is a watch that feels both retro and resolutely modern. Part 1970s wrist sculpture, part brutalist architecture, entirely its own thing.

Housed in a full Grade 5 titanium case and bracelet, the b/1.3r features a slightly refined size — now 32mm — paired with the brand’s signature asymmetrical sapphire crystal. Inside beats the Swiss-made Sellita SW100, keeping things slim, precise, and purposeful.

This is the fourth chapter in a short but distinctive story:

The original b/1 with lapis dial
The b/1.2 with Tahitian mother-of-pearl and the debut of the asymmetrical crystal
The b/1m — a world-first all-meteorite production watch
And now, the b/1.3r — where gold meets architecture

The b/1.3r isn’t trying to fit into a category. It exists because its creators believed something was missing — and decided to build it themselves.

Toledano & Chan B/1

Toledano & Chan b/1.3r

Toledano & Chan B/1.2 Mother of Pearl