Explore Isotope

Isotope likes to disturb the familiar just enough. A dive watch still reads as a dive watch, but its dial might borrow the colors and lettering of a shop’s “Will Return” sign. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2016, this independent brand has built a recognizable design language around unexpected graphics and the Lacrima, a teardrop-shaped motif that gives its watches a signature beyond the name on the dial.

The Hydrium collection is the clearest expression of that approach: compact, purposeful divers with broad hands, clean dial layouts, and color combinations that range from restrained to deliberately playful. The HydriumX “Will Return” makes the everyday sign into a watch dial without losing the practical clarity you want from a diver.

The GMT 0º takes the same appetite for unusual shapes into travel-watch territory. Its Lacrima-shaped GMT indicator makes the second time zone part of the dial’s composition, rather than simply adding another conventional hand to an otherwise familiar face.