Team Shuster Humboldt

To celebrate our partnership with Team Shuster as they defend their Olympic gold, we’re releasing an incredibly limited edition of the Humboldt 12-Hr—the same watch they’re wearing on the ice right now at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games—with a piece of a real curling stone from an Olympic competition set into the caseback. The caseback stones are cut to fit from a single curling rock by an artisanal lapidary in California. The craftsman single-handedly transforms the stone from a massive hunk of granite into precise, watch-size discs. The caseback stones are held in a hand-machined stainless steel setting, made right here in our Chicago headquarters. Each steel setting is machined by Nathan on a vintage Derbyshire Elect lathe, cut and bored with a hand-ground tungsten carbide cutter to tolerances of just hundredths of a millimeter.   Because of the sheer amount of work that goes into each of these watches, this is an extremely limited run of just ten pieces; five are for Team S