Selten and Watch Ho & Co. Channel Hong Kong’s Dim Sum Culture Into an Endearing Timepiece

Independent watch brand Selten has teamed up with watch community platform Watch Ho & Co. to introduce a deeply personal métiers d’art timepiece: the Yum Cha edition. Created to mark Watch Ho & Co.’s third anniversary, the release translates founder Jackie Ho’s cherished childhood memories of visiting traditional Hong Kong tea houses with his grandparents into horology. Instead of taking design cues from conventional motorsport or military tropes, the collaboration centers on the warmth, family rituals and rich culinary heritage of dim sum culture.

The highlight of the timepiece is its hand-engraved, fine-silver Grand Feu enamel dial, designed to mirror the intricate weave of a traditional bamboo steamer basket. Crafted under a microscope by Selten’s in-house master engraver and enamelist, Master Qin, each dial requires 16.5 hours of painstaking labor, involving roughly 3,500 individual hand cuts and multiple high-temperature firings. Finished in a rich honey-gold to amber fumé gradient, the dial recalls the warm patina acquired by wooden steamers after decades of use and is framed by custom diamond-cut hands shaped like tea leaves.

Housed in a 38mm stainless steel case measuring 9.95mm thick with a prominent top-hat sapphire crystal, the watch is powered by the manual-wind Sellita SW210-2 M Power+ movement, offering a 65-hour power reserve and regulated to within ±6 seconds per day. The aesthetic theme continues onto the solid engraved caseback depicting a sentimental family meal, as well as its presentation packaging, which includes a genuine handcrafted bamboo steamer, bamboo coasters, and a warranty card styled like a classic Hong Kong dim sum order sheet. Capped at just 100 pieces globally, the Watch Ho & Co. x Selten Yum Cha Edition retails for $4,950 USD. For more information, visit Selten’s dedicated webpage for the timepiece via its website.