Bausele Elemental City Lights and Long Weekend: Two Australian Editions

Bausele's Elemental City Lights and Long Weekend ship on an integrated steel bracelet with a Swiss Sellita SW200. Made-to-order 15–30 October 2026.

The Key Takeaways

• Australian sand sealed inside a screw-down transparent crown cap distinguishes both new Elemental editions: City Lights (Ref. EL-BK01) with a black lacquer dial and Long Weekend (Ref. EL-BE01) with a pale, sand-toned dial — each powered by a Swiss Sellita SW200 in a 40mm, 200m-rated case.
• Both editions ship on a new integrated stainless steel bracelet with rubber and leather straps available in the same order.
• Priced from USD $795, orders are accepted exclusively between 15 and 30 October 2026; delivery begins March 2027.
• The Elemental collection was developed over six months with more than 400 community members, the “Time Architects”, who voted on functional details including the dual-scale BREATHE / CONNECT bezel.

Design & Dials

Two dials, one premise. City Lights runs a black lacquer top layer over a textured sand base; applied indices float above it like a skyline seen from the water. Long Weekend takes the opposite register: a pale dial the colour of a beach at seven in the morning, before the first footprint.

The distinction goes into the crown. Dark Australian sand is sealed under the transparent cap of City Lights; light sand under Long Weekend’s. The detail is small and entirely specific to the brand’s founding proposition — every Bausele carries a physical piece of Australia.

Movement & Materials

Underneath, the specification is shared across both references: a Swiss automatic Sellita SW200 with 38 hours of power reserve and hacking seconds, housed in a 40mm case of 316L surgical-grade stainless steel at 12.2mm thick and 46mm lug-to-lug. Water resistance is rated to 200m.

The sapphire crystal is internally machined with a cyclops magnifier and finished with a five-layer anti-reflective coating. The BREATHE / CONNECT bezel is unidirectional with a 60-minute outer scale and a 12-hour inner scale for tracking a second time zone. Antimagnetic resistance reaches 1,000 gauss.

Market Position & How to Order

Bausele operates without distributor stock, which positions pricing — from USD $795, or AUD $1,290 — below what a comparable Swiss-movement integrated-bracelet watch typically costs at retail. The made-to-order model, now in its fourth period, has drawn more than 7,000 people to the waitlist, with watches worn in over 50 countries.

Orders open 15 October and close 30 October 2026 at Bausele’s official Elemental page. Adding one extra strap (rubber or leather) brings the total to USD $870; both straps together come to USD $935. Watches ship from March 2027.

Bausele was founded in Sydney in 2011 by Christophe Hoppe, former CFO at Universo in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and has presented at Geneva Watch Days alongside brands operating at considerably higher price points.

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