A world timer in gold PVD with a burgundy guilloché dial is not a watch you buy to disappear into a meeting. Farer knows this, and prices it accordingly at $1,850.
The Verdict
The Thorne is the most interesting sub-$2k world timer on the market right now, provided you can live with gold PVD and a dial that does not whisper. If you want a one-watch traveller and you already own something quieter, this earns its place.
The Make
Swiss-made in Bienne by Roventa-Henex, which has been turning out white-label watches for decades and knows what it's doing. The case is 316L marine-grade stainless steel with gold PVD over a titanium nitride base layer, which is the more durable way to do gold coating. The finishing mixes brushed bezel, polished edges, polished inner lugs and micro-blasted cut-ins on the case sides. At this price, that level of multi-surface work is rare.
The movement is a Sellita SW331-2 in Elaboré grade: 25 jewels, 28,800vph, 56-hour reserve, GMT function. Sellita, not in-house, but Elaboré is the second-from-top grade and Farer has fitted a colour-matched rotor visible through the exhibition back. The dial is burgundy guilloché with Lumicast markers (ceramic plus Super-LumiNova, which holds lume better than printed), polished gold alpha hands, and a sweep seconds hand tipped in burnt orange. Two crowns: 3 o'clock for time and date, 10 o'clock for the internal city bezel, with a central 24-hour disc underneath. Domed sapphire, internal AR, 100m water resistance, 11mm thick. The bronze-capped crown with the embossed Farer 'A' is the kind of detail that costs nothing to skip and tells you they didn't.
The Fit
39mm diameter, 45mm lug-to-lug, 11mm thick. That's a properly modern mid-size case: it will sit cleanly on a 6.5 to 7.5 inch wrist and not look lost on an 8. The St. Venere leather strap with a 316L buckle is fine out of the box, though the watch begs for a swap to suede or a textured calf in tobacco once the novelty wears off. 100m water resistance is more than the dress-watch styling suggests; you can shower in it without thinking.
The Context
At $1,850 you are comparing this to a Christopher Ward C65 Worldtimer (cheaper, plainer), a used Longines Spirit Zulu Time (steel, COSC, more conservative), or saving for a Nomos Zürich Weltzeit (twice the price, German, very different register). The Farer is the loudest of the group and the most fun. Nothing else under $2k has the case finishing, the guilloché, and a proper internal city bezel together.
The Personal Note
I would not wear this with a navy suit. I would wear it with a chore coat, a chambray shirt, and brown suede boots, on a flight to somewhere I needed to know what time it was in two cities. It is not a watch that hides, and that is the entire point.
