Before Norqain’s Wild One Skeleton went viral on the wrist of Mark Wahlberg in 2024, one year after its launch, the young independent Swiss brand’s flagship watch was arguably the Adventure, a well-made but fairly generic automatic steel tool watch with 100m of water resistance, a rotating timing bezel and a carbon fiber-like patterned dial.
Today, the Wild One Skeleton is undoubtedly the brand’s best-known watch, but Norqain is far from a one-trick pony. The brand has slowly but surely been making over the rest of its catalog, seemingly finding inspiration in the Wild One Skeleton’s success and spreading that model’s bold use of bright color to its other watches.
This has been evident in subsequent hit watches like the Independence Skeleton Chrono and the Freedom 60 Chrono “Enjoy Life” Limited Edition — AKA the “Ice Cream” — which also nabbed an endorsement from everyone’s favorite Bostonian actor-turned-watch-kingmaker.
Now it’s the long-toothed Adventure’s turn to get a makeover, as one of Norqain’s original models gets an injection of color, a new case size and a raft of other updates that make it far more appealing.
Adventure in color
There are three new Norqain Adventure models, and they all have a 40mm case. That’s probably the headline news here, as the collection’s standard three-hand models previously only existed in 42mm and 37mm sizes. The only Norqain Adventures we’ve ever seen before in the sweet-spot 40mm size were the limited Neverest Editions, and while one of this new trio is a Neverest, the other two are not, breaking new ground for the collection.
I’ll get to the new Neverest, which is my favorite of these new models, but first I’d like to cover the two standard Adventure 40mm models, as I believe they’re more representative of the collection’s future.
