Kongens gate 14, Oslo · atelier@kavier.example
Meridian 38An edition of 250
A quietermeasure of time.
Our first watch built around an in-house calibre. Automatic, 38 mm, three days of reserve, and made to be worn every day for the rest of your life.
38 mm · A quieter measure of time
The Meridian collection · 250 pieces
Automatic · Calibre H-11
For the hours that belong to you.
Shaped by the quiet of the North, made to accompany a lifetime.
Kavier began as a repair bench in Oslo in 1962. Sixty-four years later we still design for long northern winters: dials you can read by lamplight, cases that sit flat under a wool cuff, and movements a watchmaker can open and service for generations.
Inside the case
Developed with a family atelier in the Vallée de Joux over five years, the H-11 is wound by every movement of your wrist and keeps three full days of energy in reserve. Take it off on Friday evening; it is still running on Monday morning.
The collection
Every Meridian 38 shares the same brushed steel case and H-11 movement. The dials are named after the Norwegian landscapes their colours came from. Choose one to see it on the watch above.
On the wrist
At 38 mm and 9.4 mm thin, the Meridian fits slim and broad wrists alike and slides under a shirt cuff. It is water resistant to 100 metres, so there is no reason to take it off.
Ingrid and Arne Kavier open a two-room workshop near the harbour, servicing the pocket watches and ship's clocks of the city's fishermen.
The Polar 34 is made for a Svalbard survey team who needed a watch they could read in the dark of the polar night. Forty were built.
While much of the industry turned to batteries, the workshop shrank to nine watchmakers and kept building mechanical watches.
A partnership with a family atelier in the Vallée de Joux brings Swiss movement-making to Kavier designs.
Our first in-house calibre takes five years and 214 prototypes to reach the reliability we promised ourselves.
The first watch built around the H-11, in a numbered edition of 250. Each one is assembled and cased by a single watchmaker, whose initials are engraved inside the caseback.
Ownership
A mechanical watch is a long relationship. Here is what comes with every Meridian 38, at no extra cost.
Reservation
No payment is taken today. We will contact you within two working days to confirm your piece number, then invoice when your watch is ready to ship from October.
Boutiques
Book a private appointment to try every dial on your own wrist, or a video call with a watchmaker from our Oslo workshop. Appointments last about 45 minutes.
Questions
Anything else, write to atelier@kavier.example. A watchmaker answers, usually the same day.
The first Meridian 38 pieces ship from October 2026, in reservation order. Your confirmation email gives an estimated week, and we send tracking the day it leaves Oslo.
The H-11 movement is made, assembled and regulated at our partner atelier in the Vallée de Joux, and the watch is cased there. Design, finishing of the dial and all after-sales service happen in Oslo.
Each movement is regulated in five positions and certified to −2 / +4 seconds per day. Mechanical watches drift a little with temperature and how you wear them; a 30-second adjustment every week or two is normal.
Yes. The 20 mm lugs take any standard strap, and the supplied leather has quick-release spring bars, so no tools are needed. Steel bracelets and rubber straps will be available from December.
Any time before your watch ships, with one click from your confirmation email. Nothing is charged until we invoice you on dispatch.
We keep your name and contact details only to handle your reservation, delivery and warranty. We never sell or share them, and you can ask us to delete them at any time.
Four letters a year from Oslo: new pieces before anyone else sees them, notes from the watchmakers, and the occasional photograph of a midsummer sunset over the fjord.
