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In case you haven’t noticed, I’m kind of an annoying person. While I do know this about myself, there’s not much I can do to change it. I believe it’s genetic – if I did a DNA test, it would show that I’m half-annoying on my mom’s side. But I think my most annoying trait is the way I try to wedge new, fancy words I’ve just learned into everyday conversations.
“Oh,” I commented at a Wal-Mart once in fifth grade, “aren’t those raspberries looking sumptuous?”
“Isn’t that just pernicious!” I exclaimed to my husband while reading a text I had received.
And trust me, the term liminal spaces was used more than once in essays at university (God knows I would never have just said “college”).
This is all to introduce you to a new word that, perhaps, you didn’t already know: lissom, which means slim and graceful. And it’s the perfect description for Farer’s all-new collection of the same name. Coming in at just 38mm and 7.95mm thick, the Farer Lissom is a watch that lives up to its name.
Ostensibly a dress watch, the Lissom’s small profile means that the design itself has to be impactful without veering into ostentation. The small details in the series are what successfully balance this. For example, the case sides are engraved in a keyline to make it appear even thinner, the lugs curve in to hug the wrist better, and the dial is accompanied by a slightly oversized subdial and rounded numerals.
Like all of Farer’s watches, the color theory has as much impact as the design itself. Coming in five colorways, each reference has continued to show us that design is truly the USP for the brand. Farer has continued the tradition of naming their references after British historical places and people, with this set including, in alphabetical order: Arber (named after Agnes Arber, a British plant morphologist), which is a deep raspberry color paired with a purple subdial and white numerals; Balfour (for botany professor Isaac Bayley Balfour), a white-dialled watch with blue accents; Forrest (for George Forrest, a Scottish botanist), which uses Farer’s teal-and-orange colorway, plus a subtle cream subdial to balance out the colors; Lindley (for John Lindley, botanist, gardener, and the namesake of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Hall), in a deep purple with contrasting white numerals and a nice teal subdial to balance it all out; and finally Solander (named after Daniel Solander, who accompanied James Cook across the Pacific), which is the most subtle of the bunch in a monochromatic black-and-white color scheme.
All watches in the series have a 316L stainless steel case and run on a Swiss-made La Joux Perret D100, which has a 50-hour power reserve. The Lissom is available now via Farer’s website with a price tag for all models at $1,295 – which I think is a bargain most advantageous and commendably propitious to the discerning gentleman (see? I just can’t help myself). Farer
