Anoma has opened orders for the A1 Prehistoric, a version of its triangular A1 with a case hand-chiseled to look like a prehistoric stone tool. Engraver Steven Brunel, whose work has been shown at the Louvre, does that carving from a remote workshop in France's Loire region, spending five hours on every case and buckle and covering the steel in gouges and marks. No two come out the same.
The Anoma A1 Prehistoric is a 100-piece run for 2026 in hand-chiseled 316L stainless steel, 39mm by 38mm and 9.45mm thick, built on the Swiss automatic Sellita SW100 and priced at £2,900 (about $3,700), with orders open from July 8, 2026, on Anoma's website.
Paris planted the idea. Matteo Violet Vianello, Anoma's founder, walked the Constantin Brancusi exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and left thinking about the primitive tools in the sculptor's own collection, objects shaped by human hands thousands of years ago. Those crude, forceful cuts struck him as creativity at its purest, free of ornament, and the A1 Prehistoric chases that quality in steel.
On the dial, the same hand goes finer: roughly 600 individual lines cut into the brass base form the sunburst, coated after in deep anthracite. The monochrome face has the look of worked flint, with curved leaf-shaped hands keeping the display to hours and minutes.
For all the aggression in the finish, the watch stays easy on the wrist. Anoma claims the lugless triangle wears closer to 37mm, helped by a lower section that curves inward, and the crown hides in a recess, invisible from the front and reachable from the back.
The movement beats at 28,800 vibrations an hour, and the case holds 50 meters of water resistance. A gray grained Italian leather strap closes on the chiseled buckle. Deliveries begin in October 2026.
