Dragon's pass

The Dragon’s Pass is all about scale — not just visual scale, but emotional scale. The artwork shows a lone knight facing a dragon in a frozen mountain valley, but the focus isn’t on violence or fantasy. It’s about how small a figure can be while still carrying drama. The composition takes inspiration from British artist John Martin, whose vast landscapes dwarfed the humans within them, giving even tiny figures a sense of epic weight.

On the dial, this idea is compressed into a space only a few centimeters wide. The mountains rise sharply, the dragon arcs through the air, and the knight stands in the middle of it all — a miniature world made deliberately huge before being condensed back into something you can wear. That push and pull between grand scale and watch scale is the heart of the design.

The cold tones and stark contrasts give the scene its atmosphere. Nothing is embellished for effect; everything is placed to reinforce the tension between vastness and smallness. The result is a piece that carries a cinematic sense of drama in a format normally reserved for precision and restraint.

How small can a scene be and still feel epic? This artwork tries to answer that.