No One Has Ever Made a Calendar Watch Like This Before

This would come in surprisingly handy.

Published March 17, 2025

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A calendar is perhaps the most ubiquitous complication seen in watches, and also the most varied. From a simple date window to complex perpetual calendars and even watches that track the movements of various celestial bodies, calendar complications come in all shapes and sizes.

You’d think that with hundreds of years of horological development, we’d have already seen every possible iteration of a calendar complication in a watch. But that isn’t the case.

One brand that’s been pushing the boundaries of calendar watches since its debut in 2017 is Krayon, which previously released the Anywhere and Everywhere models, both of which calculate the time of sunrise and sunset on a given day (and, in the case of Everywhere, in a given location).

Now, Krayon is at it again with a calendar watch unlike any ever seen before.

a krayon watch — The Anyday shows the entire month’s calendar at a glance.

Best-laid Plans

Krayon refers to its new Anyday model as “the first mechanical planner watch,” as it gives the wearer a view of the entire month at a glance. The watch itself appears very simple but is deceptively complex, with an in-house mechanical movement comprised of 378 parts.

Surrounding the dial of the Anyday is a scale representing 31 days in the month. A rotating disc inside the scale holds a crescent marker that marks off the current day. So far, you’re looking at a basic pointer date complication — but there’s much more going on.

a closeup of a krayon watch dial — A crescent pointer marks the current date, while different colors are used to distinguish weekdays from weekends on the date scale.

The numbers on the date scale are open-worked and represent the days of the week via differently colored rotating discs under the dial. Monday through Friday are expressed in dark blue, while the weekends appear as silver. Between 31 and 1 are four dots representing the status of the next four days at the end of the month.

After the 31st of the month, the movement automatically jumps to the 1st, while simultaneously updating the rest of the scale to show the correct days of the week for the rest of the month. On months with fewer than 31 days — five times a year — this must be set manually through the lone crown. Otherwise, the date and days will adjust and advance automatically without any intervention.

The movement draws its power from two cams in a setup never seen before in a mechanical watch. One cam builds up energy over a 24-hour period to advance all of the days at midnight, while a larger cam jumps the date at midnight.

the mechanical movement of a krayon watch — The gorgeous in-house movement contains a whopping 378 components.

Pricing and Availability

Given the exclusive nature of the watch’s complication and its complicated in-house movement — not to mention its 39mm case made of solid 18K white gold — the Anyday is not what I would call an affordable or accessible watch.

The Anyday retails for CHF 88,000, which is knocking on the door of $100,000 USD ($99,909 as of this writing). This isn’t a watch for the masses, rather, it’s awards bait for high-end collectors. Krayon previously won a GPHG Innovation Award for its Everywhere Horizon, and I wouldn’t be shocked at all to see the Anyday pick up the same prestigious hardware at this year’s ceremony.