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Yema's lollipop seconds hand is back after fifty years, now on a bronze Superman

The lollipop seconds hand is back on the Superman after fifty years away, and this is the first time it has appeared on a bronze one.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 7 August 2026

Yema Superman Bronze CMM.10 with a black dial — Image: Yema

A short run of Yema Supermans left the factory at the start of the 1970s wearing a fat, round-tipped seconds hand. Collectors named it the lollipop. Then it disappeared and stayed disappeared for fifty years. It has finally come back, and a bronze Superman is where it has turned up first.

That hand, not the spec sheet, is the reason to look at the expanded Superman Bronze CMM.10 range. The black limited edition, reference 11.13.36.ZN.U6, is US$1,999 direct from Yema in either 39mm or 41mm, with 100 pieces built in each size. European buyers pay EUR 1,790. Yema ships worldwide out of France and has not set a separate Australian price.

The sapphire caseback of the Superman Bronze, showing the CMM.10 movement inside the bronze case — The CMM.10 through the sapphire back, each one serial numbered. Image: Yema

Made at Morteau, not merely put together there

The CMM.10 sitting under the dial deserves more credit than it usually gets. Yema draws it, machines it, builds it and regulates it in its own workshops at Morteau. Nothing bought in from elsewhere and screwed together on French soil. Genuinely made there.

The quoted figures are minus three to plus five seconds a day, a 70-hour reserve running at 28,800 A/h, and resistance to magnetism and shock. That reserve comes off a large barrel instead of a lazy beat rate, which is the costlier route to the same number.

Almost nobody at this money makes their own movement. The brands that do are generally asking five figures for it.

The dial now carries French text and a Manufacture Française signature at six, marking the point where CMM.10 parts began coming from in-house. A small line of print that says a fair bit about where Yema reckons it stands.

The Yema Superman Bronze at three-quarter angle, bronze case and bezel with a black dial on a black rubber strap — Bronze case, bronze bezel, and a bronze buckle to match. Image: Yema

The bronze goes all the way out to the buckle

Both sizes get a bronze case, brushed and polished, and it will patina its own way on whichever wrist it ends up on. Anyone after a watch that looks identical in five years should keep walking. The bezel is bronze as well, unidirectional, with a 0 to 60 count-up and a lumed pip at twelve, and its circular brushing runs across the grain of the vertical brushing on the case. Finishing at that level normally costs more.

The crystal is double-domed sapphire, 2.20mm of it. Hands are diamond-cut steel under an IP bronze coating, filled with Grade A Super-LumiNova to match the markers and the bezel pip. Out the back, sapphire sits over the CMM.10, engraved with a serial and an edition number, and the case is good for 30 bar. The strap is integrated FKM Viton rubber, supplied in two sizes, on a brushed bronze buckle so the hardware weathers along with everything else.

That buckle matters more than it sounds. Steel hardware on a bronze watch stops matching inside a year, and plenty of brands still fit it anyway. The size split is the other sensible call: 39mm and 41mm, rather than splitting the difference at 40mm and landing on a compromise that has never really suited anyone.