Name: The Ascendent
Brand: Mr Jones Watches
SKU: 106a-VL
Price: 375.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Celebrate your journey, with The Ascendent watch.

Designed by gilding artist Marion Labbez, The Ascendent was created as a celebration of the challenges we all face to scale our personal mountains.

On the face of the watch a mountain shimmers on the horizon, appearing both near enough to touch and also impossibly beyond our grasp.

This sophisticated and elegant design was created with gilded palladium applied in different ways to achieve two different textures.

It is also powered by an automatic mechanical movement, which means you'll never need to replace the battery. Instead, this unique watch is powered by your movement.

How to read the time

To read the hour, you'll need to check the numbers in the tree.

To read the minute, you'll need to look to the moon or the stars. For the exact time, you need to look at the grouping and see how close to the horizon line they are.

If the stars are on the line, then it's exactly that time past the hour; slightly above the line means subtract a minute or two and slightly below the line means add on a minute or two - watch a video explaining this here.

Medium / unisex size

Sapphire glass (hard-wearing)

TY2709 20 jewel automatic mechanical movement

Jump hour movement

Waterproof! Rated 5ATM

12 month warranty included

316L stainless steel case

18mm black leather, black stitch strap

Size guide

Marion Labbez

Marion explains her inspiration for The Ascendent watch:

"I designed this watch to be a hopeful visual invitation to look forward. Explore, discover, climb, travel: experience the world around you. Never look down, the only way is up and the journey is fulfilling."

This design completes a set of four watches which Marion has produced, each of which embody a different element. In this series, The Ascendent is the element of earth.

London-based Frenchwoman Marion Labbez is one of a handful of verse églomisé specialists working in the UK today. Whilst preserving the venerable tradition of gilding and painting on the reverse of glass, she rejuvenates it with contemporary patterns, colours and textures.

Marion Labbez creates bespoke hand-crafter panels for application on walls, furniture and mirrors for interiors.

www.marionlabbez.com

We aim to dispatch all orders within 1-2 working days.

When your order is dispatched, your tracking details will be updated.

If you have opted for a custom engraving please allow an additional 1-2 working days.

If you are purchasing during a sale or a limited edition release - you can expect an email update with an estimated dispatch date if there any changes to the timeframe.

If you are in a hurry for your watch, please email us.

Shipping guide for watches and straps:

- FREE UPS Express shipping, 1-3 working days

A majority of orders are now dispatched from our EU site, meaning there should be no additional fees to pay upon import.

For any orders shipped from the UK, duties and taxes will be prepaid by us. Please do get in touch if you have any issues with the import process.

This means, the price you pay when you checkout is the full price and you will not have to pay any extra charges.

These delivery times are a guide based on the UPS terms of service, products may, in some unusual cases take longer to arrive. If this happens, please get in touch.

Return your watch for an exchange

We are happy to exchange unworn watches.

Fastening the watch will cause damage to the leather. If this is the case, we charge for the watch strap (or we can put the worn strap on the exchanged watch for free).

Please email us directly if you think your watch is faulty, our team will be happy to arrange a repair or replacement for you.

Return your watch for a refund

If you change your mind, you have 30 days to return your watch for a refund.

If you purchased your watch in-store, we can offer an exchange or store credit only. This is because you’ve seen the watch in person and had the opportunity to try it on. Please let us know if you’re purchasing as a gift.

Return Instructions

We recommend using a standard tracked postal service (we advise against couriers as these tend to be very expensive).

Return address:

Mr Jones Watches Distribution Ltd. (returns)
Building M5, Floor 2
25 Rayko Daskalov St
Plovdiv 4000
Bulgaria

Checklist for the watch return:

• Ensure the watch is securely wrapped in the original packaging or bubble wrap/void fill if you don’t have this.

• Please include a note with your name and email address, so we know from whom the watch has been sent.

Made in London

The individual colours in the design were mixed and printed one by one.

The precious metal foils were applied by hand, cleaned and backed with a varnish for protection.

The gilding process makes each watch slightly different. This means that you’ll always get a completely unique, handmade watch.

Each watch was then hand assembled before going through our strict quality control process.

Automatic mechanical

This means your watch has no battery, instead it's powered by the movement of your wrist!

If you don’t wear your watch for a while, then the movement will run out of power and your watch will stop.

When this happens, you can manually wind it (turn the winding crown on the side of the watch clockwise 20-30 times) or just wear it to get it running again.