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Yema brings back a hand it last used in 1970
The oversized Superman lollipop seconds hand returns after fifty years, on bronze for the first time.
Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 7 August 2026
For a short while at the start of the 1970s, a handful of Yema Supermans left the factory with an oversized round-tipped seconds hand. Collectors call it the lollipop. It did not last, and it has not been back since. It is back now, and this is the first time it has appeared on a bronze Superman.
That is the reason to look at the expanded Superman Bronze CMM.10 range, more than any spec on the sheet. The black limited edition, reference 11.13.36.ZN.U6, is 1,999 US dollars on Yema's own site in either 39mm or 41mm, in runs of 100 pieces per diameter. European buyers pay 1,790 euros. Yema ships worldwide from France and has not set a separate Australian price.
Made in Morteau, not merely assembled there
Underneath is the CMM.10, and it is the sort of movement that ought to be more famous than it is. Yema designs, manufactures, assembles and calibrates it in its own workshops in Morteau. Not assembled in France from parts bought elsewhere. Made there. The brand quotes minus three to plus five seconds a day, a 70-hour reserve at 28,800 A/h, and resistance to magnetism and shock. The reserve comes from a large barrel instead of a lowered frequency, which is the more expensive way round.
Very few brands at any price make their own movements. Most that do are asking five figures.
The dial now carries French text and a Manufacture Française signature at six o'clock, marking the point at which CMM.10 component production came in-house. It is a small thing that says quite a lot about where the brand thinks it now sits.
Bronze on bronze, down to the buckle
Case is bronze in both sizes, brushed and polished, and it will patina differently on every wrist. If you want a watch that looks the same in five years, look elsewhere. The bezel is bronze too, unidirectional, 0 to 60 count-up, with a lumed pip at twelve, and its circular brushing runs against the vertical brushing on the case. That is finishing you normally pay more for.
The crystal is double-domed sapphire at 2.20mm. Hands are diamond-cut steel with an IP bronze coating and Grade A Super-LumiNova, matched to the markers and the bezel pip. The back is sapphire over the CMM.10, engraved with a serial and edition number, and the watch is good for 30 bar. The strap is integrated FKM Viton rubber in two sizes on a brushed bronze buckle, which will age alongside the case.
That buckle is a detail almost everyone gets wrong. A steel buckle on a bronze watch looks out of step within a year. And offering 39mm and 41mm instead of splitting the difference at 40 is the other decision more brands should copy, because nobody has ever been well served by a compromise size.