Andersen’s Concorde worldtimer makes a very good case for a busy dial

I think this Andersen worldtimer is gorgeous, and the fact that I have to look closely to work out everything on the dial is part of why I like it. There is a Concorde flying over Tower Bridge, a ring of cities, a 24-hour display and several different surfaces, yet the whole thing still looks like one deliberate design. That is a harder trick than putting an unusual material behind ordinary hands.

The Communication 45 Supersonic London Edition is limited to 20 pieces. Andersen says it developed the watch with a group of London collectors. The central scene is cloisonné enamel, with thin gold wires outlining Concorde, the bridge and the city. I like that the picture has an actual composition; the airplane is part of a scene rather than a logo dropped into the middle of the dial.

The maker identifies an aventurine 24-hour ring with white mother-of-pearl underneath its daytime section. Around that is a brown mother-of-pearl city ring, with London picked out in blue. The different colors could easily have become a mess. In these photographs the brown and rose-gold printing tie into the sunrise, and the blue center gives them somewhere to stop.

Andersen specifies a 38 mm platinum case at 8.97 mm thick. MONOCHROME gives a slightly different 8.95 mm, so I'm using the maker's number. Either way, a thin worldtimer with those curved, separately made lugs sounds much more appealing to me than a large slab with a pretty dial. I would still want to see how the lugs sit on a real wrist; the stated diameter doesn't answer that by itself.

MONOCHROME reports a vintage A. Schild automatic base with Andersen's worldtime module, a 40-hour reserve and 30 meters of water resistance. The two recessed crowns adjust the time and city ring separately. That reserve is modest, and an older base movement in a very limited independent watch would make service support one of my first questions. A beautiful rotor does not answer the practical ownership questions.

The back has its own Concorde treatment, on an engraved BlueGold rotor. I like the connection between front and back, although I would be buying the dial long before the little airplane on the movement. The combination of a mechanical worldtimer and a carefully made miniature scene is enough to keep me looking.

November 6 reporting supports the current London edition; the maker page doesn't establish its original announcement day. Price is on request, and a US dollar quote and delivery remain unverified as of November 7, 2026. I'm giving it 105 out of 120 bezel clicks, with service access and the exact price still questions for a real buyer.