The Octagon — Red Cornerstone by Reigi

Reigi — watch artisan · Jyväskylä, Finland

This watch wasn’t made to show others who you are — it was made to remind you what it took to get here.

Finnish School of Watchmaking · 2024 In-house modified ETA 6498 Hand-woven silver dial Five-year warranty WatchTime · Iltalehti · Timezone

Why we make watches

Time is your most valuable asset.

Everything you are proud of was paid for in time — the training, the work, the setbacks you outlasted. We build watches that physically embody that effort: hard work, dedication and perseverance you can hold in your hand. A Reigi is not a trophy for others to read. It is a daily reminder of your values and your achievements — worn where only you can feel it.

The Octagon · Cornerstone Series

The Octagon — Red Cornerstone
Red Cornerstone
Rei — Respect

For those who move forward when it would be easier to wait.

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The Octagon — Blue Cornerstone
Blue Cornerstone
Gi — Integrity

For those who remain steady when pressure rises.

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The Octagon · Signature Series

Signature Series — Tom Aspinall
Tom Aspinall
Edition of 28

Built with the UFC heavyweight champion — a father’s lesson about time and money, woven into the dial.

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Pièce Unique

Pièce Unique
One of one — never repeated

The Octagon is our founder’s dream watch. This is yours: designed with you, built once from raw material — and never made again.

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Hand-woven 925 silver mesh seated in the octagonal dial frame of The Octagon

The signature

A dial woven from silver, strand by strand.

Sterling-silver wire, 0.4 mm thin, woven by hand into a mesh no machine produces — seated into a dial of 22 parts. Reigi (礼儀) means etiquette — the respect that opens every practice in the dojo. Rei is respect. Gi is integrity. Two of the seven virtues of bushidō, tied into a bow of silver on every strap.

The craft

Made for one

Yours before the first part is cut.

Every Reigi is built to order, for one person — that is the baseline, and it never moves. But if making it personal will make the watch carry more — the dial’s colour and finish, an engraving, a date, a story folded into the commission — we are more than ready.

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Welcome

House of Reigi

Built like a dojo — slowly, in the right order, one room at a time.

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The Craft

Made the hard way.

Every case, dial and hand is machined, woven, blued and finished at the atelier in Jyväskylä. The hard way, by choice: it is the only way a watch can honour hard-won things.

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Julli Huikkonen photographed from behind

The Maker

The long way to Reigi.

A discipline learned in martial arts found its final shape at a watchmaker’s bench. Juho “Julli” Huikkonen — micromechanic, Finnish School of Watchmaking, 2024 — builds every Reigi today, with the ambition to grow a true Finnish house of watchmaking.

The story

What we hope for it

Wear it. Let it earn its marks.

We don’t want you to curate this watch for the next generation — we want you to own it: wear it, wind it each morning, let it gather the evidence of a life fully used. And one day, when it moves to the next wrist, it carries you with it — your years, your standards, your wisdom. A quiet source of strength and comfort for the people you love, keeping the best of you present.

Our philosophy

Commission

Begin the conversation.

No cart, no checkout. A reservation of 50 % confirms your commission — and the watch is built for you, in conversation with the atelier.

Commission

Julli replies personally — usually within a day or two.

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