A pair of eyes emerges from a haze of blue and violet. A bright blue burst opens across a gold-framed dial. Before you read the time, something else holds your attention.
For this collaboration, LAARVEE welcomes Tokyo-based artist RYOTA DAIMON into its distinctive watchmaking world. Across two designs, his imagery meets our familiar, off-centre silhouette, giving colour, shape and time a new way to interact.
Daimon has been drawing since childhood. Influenced by street culture and the cartoons he grew up watching, he developed his visual language through self-taught airbrush painting. Familiar subjects sit alongside imagined characters, moving between realism and fantasy with an easy, playful confidence.
There is also a photographic quality to his work. In an interview with UNION TOKYO, Daimon traced his interest in depth and blurred focus to photographs taken with an SLR camera that impressed him as a child. That fascination helps explain the feeling of his paintings: some details come sharply into view, while others seem to drift just beyond reach.
That play with perception feels at home on a LAARVEE. Our curved, asymmetric case gives the familiar watch face an unexpected outline. Paired with Daimon’s imagery, the effect becomes more layered: the eye follows the case, moves into the artwork, then returns to the hands.
The artwork extends from the dial onto the bezel, allowing the composition to continue across the two surfaces. The case becomes a frame with a character of its own, shaping how the image is seen.
The silver-toned edition draws you in slowly. Blue and violet soften the background, while a pair of eyes gives the composition its focal point. A star motif sits below the hands, and raised hour markers bring crisp edges to the hazy imagery. There is a quiet strangeness to it—the longer you look, the more your attention moves between the details.
The gold-toned edition has a more immediate energy. Electric blue radiates from a pale centre, crossed by fine, angular lines. The blue continues onto the bezel, while the warmth of the case and bracelet makes the colour feel even more vivid. The sculpted hands become part of this tension between soft light and sharp form.
On the wrist, the image gains another rhythm. The hands move across it throughout the day, changing their relationship with the eyes, the star and the burst of blue. A glance to check the time becomes a chance to notice something different.
LAARVEE × RYOTA DAIMON brings together two distinct visual identities through a shared invitation: look a little longer. Time keeps moving. There is plenty to see along the way.
