Krayon Anyday Rose Gold Review & First Look

By Brent Robillard

An agenda on the wrist

Krayon is one of those brands you don’t so much discover as you hear about first—like a secret whispered in corridors, debated over espressos, name-checked in hushed, reverent tones. Okay. I’m exaggerating a bit. But the brand is not a household name. And it should be. When I first crossed paths with Krayon at Time to Watches in Geneva, it was almost comical how difficult they were to approach. Their room at Villa Sarasin was perpetually full. Their watches were on the lips of collectors, journalists, and retailers alike. It felt like the kind of brooding storm that forms around a brand when the people who know, really know.

That buzz didn’t come out of nowhere. Krayon’s reputation was cemented early on with the Everywhere Horizon, which earned the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève award for Best Watchmaking Innovation, followed by the Anywhere, which went on to claim the Calendar & Astronomy Prize in 2022. Both watches reframed how mechanical timepieces could engage with astronomical and calendar information in ways that were not just technically impressive, but emotionally resonant. The new Anyday sits very much in that lineage—just aimed squarely at everyday life.

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Key Features of the Krayon Anyday

Month at a glance

With the release of the Anyday in 18K rose gold, Krayon introduces a warmer, more restrained interpretation of one of the most radical calendar watches of recent years. The premise remains the same: this is the first mechanical wristwatch to display the entire month at a single glance. Not a fragment. Not a window. The whole month—laid out like an agenda page.

At first glance, the Anyday looks deceptively classical. Central hour and minute hands, applied hour markers, a restrained chapter ring. But the real story unfolds around the edge of the dial, where the calendar lives. A fixed peripheral ring marked from 1 to 31 forms the foundation, while a slender crescent-moon indicator glides along the circumference, pointing to the current date. Rather than hiding information behind apertures, Krayon places the entire structure of the month in front of you. It’s the difference between checking a single appointment and seeing your whole week laid out in context.

Colour

What elevates this rose gold edition is how colour becomes information. The anthracite dial is punctuated by two superimposed, hand-painted discs created by André Martinez in Le Locle. Weekdays appear in one tone, weekends in another, creating an intuitive rhythm that your eye is meant to read almost subconsciously. You don’t need text. You don’t need abbreviations. You can see, at a glance, where your weekends fall and how the weeks ahead take shape.

There’s something poetic about that. In an era when our phones constantly demand our attention—buzzing, lighting up, fragmenting time into notifications—the Anyday offers a calmer proposition. The month is simply there. Present. Ordered. It’s time rendered spatially, not digitally.

Even the end of the month has been thoughtfully reimagined. Where most calendar watches stumble into the transition from the 31st back to the 1st, Krayon inserts four discreet dots at six o’clock. These act as a visual buffer between months, but they’re also functional, extending the display to a full five-week grid. The result is a sense of continuity—time doesn’t abruptly reset, it flows forward, carrying the rhythm of weekdays and weekends with it.

Calibre C032

Under the hood, the in-house Calibre C032 drives the show. Comprising 378 components, the movement uses an energy-accumulating system that releases its charge in an instantaneous jump at midnight, ensuring that the date transitions cleanly and decisively. Despite the sophistication of the mechanism, usability remains refreshingly simple. Each month is treated as a 31-day cycle, requiring just five manual corrections per year—no more demanding than a traditional simple calendar, yet far richer in the information it provides.

Rose gold case

The rose gold case, at 39mm and just 9.5mm thick, keeps the Anyday firmly in elegant, wearable territory. Paired with the anthracite guilloché dial and Krayon’s distinctive “Y” motif, the watch feels contemporary and classic at the same time. It’s warm, refined, and confident—very much in keeping with a brand that doesn’t shout for attention, but tends to command it anyway.

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Rémi Maillat

Krayon was founded in Neuchâtel by Rémi Maillat, an engineer-designer whose work consistently begins with a sketch—a literal coup de crayon—before evolving into a patented, in-house movement. From Everywhere to Anywhere to Anyday, the brand’s trajectory has been remarkably coherent: complications that are mechanically ambitious, yet intuitive in how they connect to lived experience.

In a world that constantly asks us to check, scroll, and confirm, the Anyday doesn’t interrupt. It simply reminds.

About the Author

Brent Robillard is a writer, educator, craftsman, and watch enthusiast. He is the author of four novels. You can follow him on Instagram.

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