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The echo/neutra x Worn & Wound Rivanera puts a skyline on the dial

A titanium rectangle frames an Art Deco city in relief, with black hands and a hand-wound movement keeping the 100-piece collaboration grounded.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 8 October 2026

• The echo/neutra and Worn & Wound collaboration gives the Rivanera a sculptural dial inspired by early twentieth-century futurism and Art Deco architecture.
• Its grey architectural relief sits inside a slim Grade 5 titanium case, with black hands and the logo printed beneath the sapphire crystal.
• The 100-piece edition includes rubber and shell cordovan straps, with prices of A$2,500, €1,490 and US$1,810 across its confirmed regional storefronts.

A skyline with no numerals

There is a particular pleasure in drawings of cities that never quite arrived: towers rising towards a sunburst, every edge impossibly clean, the future apparently solved by a better architect. Put that imagery on a watch and it could easily become a miniature souvenir poster. Give the buildings actual surfaces that catch the light, though, and the idea starts to belong to watchmaking. That is the promising distinction behind the echo/neutra x Worn & Wound Rivanera Limited Edition.

Announced on 7 October, the collaboration takes the Rivanera's rectangular titanium case and turns its dial into an architectural relief. Echo/neutra describes the inspiration as early twentieth-century futurism and Art Deco geometry, and the result is unusually committed to that premise. Five tall forms rise from the lower edge, their angled tops giving the impression of a skyline seen from below. In the collaborators' photographs, the pale and dark faces read almost like separate materials, although their contrast comes from the surfaces catching light differently.

Move upwards and the skyline meets a burst of radiating lines, then look towards six o'clock, where a spiral interrupts all those straight edges. It is a busy arrangement made coherent by its grey palette. The black hands are the practical concession, giving the eye something simple to follow across the relief. Worn & Wound explains that the only printing, the echo/neutra name, sits on the underside of the crystal. That keeps the landscape itself free of lettering, with the wordmark appearing to sit above it.

Titanium gives the buildings a frame

I like the decision to leave out a conventional chapter ring, even though it makes this an awkward recommendation for anyone who wants to read every minute at a glance. The dial asks to be looked at before it asks to be read. A line of numerals would give it familiar order, but would also turn the architecture into a background illustration. Here the image occupies the whole available space, and the rectangular frame feels like part of the composition rather than something applied afterwards.

Echo/neutra makes that frame from Grade 5 titanium, while the collaboration announcement describes a bead-blasted grey finish interrupted by polished channels along its upper sides. The contrast matters: broad, subdued surfaces contain the dial, and the brighter lines preserve the sharp outline. At 27 mm wide and 5.9 mm thick including its flat sapphire crystal, this is a narrow, slim proposition. Nothing about those dimensions demands that the design become quieter; the interest is concentrated within the rectangle instead of being spread across a large case.

The practical details are modest and appropriate to that shape. Echo/neutra specifies a push-pull crown, 30 metres of water resistance and 20 mm strap attachments. Those are useful reminders that a titanium case does not automatically make this a sports watch. The unusually broad strap relative to the case's width also gives the whole object a continuous, band-like outline in the brand's photographs. It is a different visual balance from a small round watch suspended between thin straps, and one of the reasons the rectangle has such presence.

A familiar hand-wound engine behind the scene

Turn the watch over and the display back reveals the hand-wound ETA 7001. Worn & Wound identifies 17 jewels, a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour and approximately 40 hours of running time, alongside striped decoration and blue screws. That is a conventional mechanical foundation for an unconventional face. There is no rotor covering the movement, and winding it remains part of using it. The appeal here is not a technical breakthrough hidden behind an artistic dial; the familiar mechanism lets the design carry the argument.

Both supplied straps are black, with rubber and Horween shell cordovan giving the buyer two quite different surfaces beside the matt titanium. Rubber continues the industrial impression, while the leather provides a more familiar dress-watch pairing. Keeping both black seems the right call to me: a contrasting strap would introduce another subject to a dial already occupied with perspective, rays and intersecting textures. The maker also offers short, regular and extra-long sizing for the second strap, a useful practical choice within an otherwise tightly specified edition.

At A$2,500, this asks the buyer to put considerable value on a dial. I think that is a more interesting proposition when the design changes how the entire watch reads, as it does here, than when decoration merely fills the space between familiar markers. Its attraction is the commitment: case, finish, hands and straps all support the same architectural idea. A hundred pieces is a small edition, but the stronger reason to want one is that removing the skyline would remove the watch's whole point.

echo/neutra x Worn & Wound Rivanera Limited Edition pricing and availability

The edition is limited to 100 pieces and includes black rubber and black Horween shell cordovan straps. It is available through echo/neutra, with Worn & Wound's Windup Watch Shop also listing the watch as ready to ship. Prices: A$2,500 through echo/neutra's Australian storefront | €1,490 through its European storefront | US$1,810 through Windup Watch Shop.