1975
The year the
curve died.
Flat glass was cheaper to cut. In a single decade the dome disappeared from everything you could afford — it moved upstairs, behind glass counters.
The Cypher Legacy
Return of the Curve.
In 1975 the industry flattened the glass because flat was cheaper to cut. We spent a year putting the dome back.
Reading the registry… Reserve your number
The year the
The Crystal
Sapphire,
and a tall dome.
A double-domed sapphire rising above the case exactly like the plexi domes of the sixties — except this one will never scratch.
9Mohs hardness
2Domes
ARCoated
The Dial
A pattern you feel
with your eyes.
Hobnail guilloche around the outer ring — hundreds of tiny pyramids, each catching light on its own.
We could have printed a flat imitation.
See the six dials →Six dials · One curve
Choose the one
that finds you.
The same case, the same dome, the same guilloche. Six colours that behave completely differently under light.
Collection 01 · The archive
Paddock '74.
The one that started it.
A racing chronograph built for a country that was told it couldn't build one. Three batches, three thousand numbered pieces, every serial claimed.
3,000Pieces released
100%Sold out
0Cancellations
Sold out
Monza Red
Black leather strap
Sold out
Ignition Orange
Black leather strap
Sold out
Ignition Orange
Orange leather strap
Sold out
Grand Prix Panda
Black leather strap
Sold out
Grand Prix Panda
Orange leather strap
Sold out
Le Mans Blue
Black leather strap
Sold out
Le Mans Blue
Orange leather strap
Sold out
Silverstone Green
Green leather strap
Sold out
Silverstone Green
Orange leather strap
Batch 4 pre-bookings are open — choose your serial from the registry.
In development
Two more are
being built.
Cypher isn't one watch that got lucky. Here's what's on the bench right now — and roughly when you'll be able to claim a number.
Incoming transmission
Collection 03
September
Aphelion
The farthest point.
A Japanese automatic caliber the factory stopped making — 21 jewels, a 24-hour indicator, a running small seconds. We bought the last 500 in existence. When they're assembled, the reference is gone.
500Pieces ever
38mmCushion case
21Jewels · auto
We cannot make 501. It's a physical constraint, not a marketing one.
Read the file →
Jaipur · 1724
Collection 04
2027
Samrat
India measured time first.
A world timer built from India, looking outward. Named for the 27-metre sundial at Jantar Mantar that was reading the sky to two-second accuracy 160 years before Greenwich existed.
22World cities
40mmGMT automatic
300First batch
The first world timer that doesn't round your time zone. Mumbai :30. Kathmandu :45.
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Sufiyan Mulla
Founder · Cypher Watch Company
A letter from the founder
I didn't build Cypher
for everyone.
For eight years I was told an Indian brand couldn't make watches that compete with the world. Not once. Repeatedly, by people who meant it kindly.
Then five hundred numbered pieces sold out seven days before we launched. A thousand more went in thirty days. Every one paid upfront, with a two-and-a-half month wait ahead — and not a single cancellation.
That wasn't marketing. That was you: telling friends, posting wrist shots, choosing serial numbers like the number actually meant something.
Because it does.
To the people who believed before there was any reason to — you didn't buy a watch. You funded a workshop, three more collections, and a stubborn idea about what gets made here. I don't take that lightly, and I never will.
S.M.
Navi Mumbai, 2026
On the wrist
Don't take our
word for it.
0Pieces delivered
0In the inner circle
0Cities
0:22
0:53
0:57
1:15
★★★★★
The build quality, the precision, and my favourite — the custom number engraved on the back — was the biggest highlight.
★★★★★
The dial texture looks fantastic and really brings depth and character. Truly represents my love for F1.
★★★★★
Quick, direct responses from the founder himself show the passion behind the brand.
Dispatches from the workshop
The Cypher
Journal.
Engineering breakdowns, horological arguments, and the reasoning behind decisions most brands never explain.
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