Anton Suhanov built the Flamingo Singapore Edition around a bridge shaped like the Merlion, and the bridge moves. Wind the watch and the creature’s tail sways, a toothed wheel turns at its mouth, and its eye blinks every 12 seconds.
The edition runs to 18 pieces in stainless steel, built for the IAMWATCH 2026 exhibition in Singapore, and it carries Suhanov’s in-house hand-wound caliber Su26.2L. The price is CHF 60,000, about $71,562, and the edition’s serial numbers are engraved inside the movement. On the dial side, the oversized balance wheel runs the top of the watch, with the day and night indicator at 10, small seconds at 2 and the power reserve sweeping the bottom at 6.
Nothing on this dial ever sits still.
Anton Suhanov Flamingo Singapore Edition
Caliber Su26.2L, 42mm stainless steel, limited to 18 pieces
Price: $71,562 (CHF 60,000)
Where to buy: Buy at Anton Suhanov
Three animations, and every one is a working part
The Merlion replaces the Y-shaped bridge of the classic Flamingo, a bridge whose outline traces the Neva River through St Petersburg. Suhanov kept the geography and changed the city. The silhouette is cut into curves, cut-outs and sharp angles, then finished by hand.
Start winding and the tail sways from side to side in front of a fixed cover stamped with the maker’s logo. A toothed wheel in the winding train sits at the creature’s mouth, and its teeth cross the opening one by one as the crown turns, standing in for the water jet the real statue spouts across the bay.
The blink runs on its own. Spokes of the small-seconds wheel pass behind the opening that forms the Merlion’s eye, and the eye shuts for a moment every 12 seconds, all through the watch’s running, no winding needed. Each effect comes from parts the watch already needs, the winding train and the small-seconds wheel. The Merlion is a load-bearing part of the caliber.
The film released with the edition shows the winding sequence and the blink in motion.
The Flaming Balance, now in green
Suhanov’s signature sits on the dial side, a balance wheel 15.7mm across with luminescent inserts set into its rim. It beats at 18,000 vibrations per hour, and the maker calls it one of the largest balance wheels in the world at that frequency.
In darkness it becomes a ring.
As the wheel oscillates, the inserts blur into a continuous luminous ring, and polished chamfers throw moving highlights across the rim each time the watch tilts. For Singapore, the wheel is anodized green, matched to green chatons set with rubies elsewhere in the caliber, a pairing Suhanov hasn’t used in the Flamingo line before.
Mounting the balance on the dial side puts the oscillation in full view under the crystal, above the hours and minutes that sit low on the dial at 6.
The wheel’s size does the visual work a tourbillon usually gets hired for.
Stars that grow as the barrels fill
Five white stars sit under the power reserve scale, growing from left to right, the smallest beside the red sector and the largest beside the white. The hand’s travel along them turns refueling into a progress bar, and the scale itself runs in the flag’s red and white.
The reserve display is non-linear, a layout carried over from the classic Flamingo. Through the final 12 hours, marked in red, the hand moves twice as fast, so the last stretch of the 84 hours announces itself instead of creeping.
The last hours feel faster, by design.
Through the sapphire back, the two barrel ratchet wheels echo the Supertrees at Gardens by the Bay, round canopies on radiating teeth, their green covers standing in for the gardens’ evening light. The crown carries two ruby pallets and the maker’s logo on its end face, and the hands run green with ruby jewels and ruby pallets of their own.
Red and white from the flag organize the scales, and green from the gardens organizes everything else.
Hand finishing, and the decade behind it
The click and its spring in the winding mechanism wear deeper curves than the classic model’s, reshaped to follow tropical vines, and both parts are finished green. Perlage, anglage and sandblasting cover the movement, with chamfers polished by hand and internal corners left sharp. Sharp internal corners give the handwork away.
Suhanov’s name reached collectors in 2016, when his Black Clock, a table clock with a three-axis tourbillon, won the AHCI Young Talent Competition. In 2025 his St Petersburg Easter Egg Tourbillon Clock took the Horological Revelation Prize at the GPHG, and the Flamingo followed in 2026 with his first fully in-house wristwatch caliber, four years in development.
One of the two barrel ratchet wheels is laser-engraved with the edition’s inscription and the watch’s individual serial number, so the numbering lives inside the movement rather than on a caseback rim.
The case is stainless steel at 42mm by 11.5mm, water-resistant to 30 meters, on a light-green crocodile strap. The tradeoff is plain: a 30-meter rating and 18 pieces make this a watch for a cabinet and a calendar of careful outings, and in exchange the movement performs every time its owner winds it.
Anton Suhanov Flamingo Singapore Edition
Caliber Su26.2L, 42mm stainless steel, limited to 18 pieces
Price: $71,562 (CHF 60,000)
Where to buy: Buy at Anton Suhanov
Buy it if you collect independent watchmaking and want the piece where a national symbol does mechanical work, at $71,562 (CHF 60,000) through the maker’s site. Skip it if you need a watch that shrugs off water, waits for no one, or exists in more than 18 examples.
