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Nodus gives the Sector II Dive a floating sapphire dial

The 75-piece Holme & Hadfield edition layers its markers over a sapphire dial, then frames the effect with raw bronze for US$650.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 3 min read · 26 August 2026

• The collaboration suspends luminous indices, markers and both brand logos on a sapphire dial inspired by Holme & Hadfield's display cases.
• A 38 mm steel case carries a raw CuAl5 bronze bezel and crown, with 100 metres of water resistance.
• Production is limited to 75 pieces at US$650, with VIP access on 27 August before the public opening on 28 August.

Most collaboration watches begin with a logo looking for somewhere to sit. The Nodus Sector II Dive Holme & Hadfield Edition begins with a piece of sapphire and asks the logos to float. Its dial suspends the luminous indices, markers and both brand marks, borrowing the clear-layer idea from Holme & Hadfield's watch display cases. Around it, Nodus has fitted raw CuAl5 bronze at the bezel and crown. Only 75 pieces will be made, each priced at US$650.

This is still recognisably a Sector II Dive, and that is useful. The collaboration has a dependable 38 mm steel case underneath its visual trick, with a 40 mm bezel, 11.9 mm thickness and 47 mm lug-to-lug measurement. Its sizing suits an everyday diver; the visual trick does not turn it into a display object, despite a dial conceived by a company known for display cases. That little reversal could have become painfully literal. Instead, the transparent layer is doing actual design work.

The dial earns the collaboration

Nodus and Holme & Hadfield describe the sapphire dial as producing a floating aesthetic. The watch uses Swiss Super-LumiNova BGW9 Grade A on the indices and markers that appear to hover in daylight. Keeping the no-date display preserves that layered treatment, while the green seconds hand adds a small point of contrast visible in the launch photographs.

The raw bronze bezel and crown give that precision a material counterweight. Both use CuAl5 bronze and are intended to develop a natural patina. Because the bronze is left untreated, the brands expect its texture and tone to vary as the watch is worn. The case itself remains 316L stainless steel, which keeps the main structure familiar while the exposed bronze changes with wear. This is the bit I kept changing my mind about. Bronze can make a modern diver look like it arrived with a costume. Here, it makes sense beside a dial designed to stay optically clean, because one surface remains clear while another records handling.

The bezel is a 60-click unidirectional unit with a matte DLC-coated steel insert. Above the dial is a box sapphire crystal with blue anti-reflective coating on its underside, while the screw-down bronze crown helps the watch reach 100 metres of water resistance. Those are coherent specifications for a compact everyday diver. Nobody is claiming a saturation instrument, and the watch does not need to become one to justify the name on its dial.

A regulated NH38 keeps the display tidy

Power comes from the TMI NH38, an automatic, no-date movement with 24 jewels and a 41-hour power reserve. Nodus regulates it to plus or minus 10 seconds per day and quotes magnetic resistance of at least 4,800 A/m. The absence of a date is particularly sensible here. A calendar aperture would punch through the layered idea that gives the edition its reason to exist, turning a clear display into a noticeboard.

Nodus pairs the watch with a bracelet tapering from 20 mm to 16 mm, plus its NEM clasp and quick-release spring bars. The watch head weighs 64 g, and the 20 mm lug width keeps aftermarket strap choices straightforward. It is designed and assembled in Los Angeles, consistent with Nodus's usual approach. None of those practical details has been traded away for the collaboration treatment. The sapphire dial is the novelty; the bracelet, crown, bezel and regulated movement are there to make it wearable after the novelty becomes normal. An edition built to record wear through its bronze deserves to spend time outside its display case.

At US$650, the strongest argument is not that sapphire and bronze are inherently exotic. It is that the two materials are used to express the relationship between the collaborators. Holme & Hadfield's clear display cases become a dial construction, while the bronze is left to gather evidence of use rather than remain showroom-neat. That gives the edition an idea you can see without reading the case back, which is more than many logo swaps manage.

Nodus × Holme & Hadfield Sector II Dive pricing and availability

The Nodus Sector II Dive Holme & Hadfield Edition is limited to 75 pieces and costs US$650. Holme & Hadfield says its VIP list receives first access on 27 August 2026 at noon US Eastern time, with public access opening on 28 August at noon Eastern. The brand also warns that the allocation may sell out before the public window. That makes the early-access list relevant rather than decorative, which is about as close as a watch launch should come to making its own display case nervous.