Studio project · Horology / Luxury Retail

Kaldera Reykjavík

A dial pressed from volcanic stone means no two watches match. The site had to prove that — so the atelier sequence runs 240 frames of the movement being assembled, scrubbed by scroll.

Sector
Horology / Luxury Retail
Service
E-Commerce, Web Development, UI/UX
Platform
React, Vite
Category
E-Commerce
Year
2026
Kaldera Reykjavík — Forged in fire
Forged in fireThe Fumarole Diver 43 on wet basalt under ember light, with the two headline claims — the in-house calibre and the pressed-stone dial — set beneath the lede rather than in a badge row.
  • 240Frames in the atelier scrub
  • 4Chapters, each with its own evidence
  • 8References with real availability states

Overview

The brief

An invented Icelandic dive-watch maison, built as four chapters rather than a page: the case, the layers, the calibre, and the collection. Watch buyers read specifications the way other people read novels, so the structure gives each claim its own chapter and its own evidence instead of compressing them into a feature grid.

How it was built

The detail

Chapter four is a 240-frame scrub of the Calibre K-01 being assembled, driven by scroll position with a frame counter and timecode beside it, preloaded behind a progress preloader that can be skipped. Chapter three explodes the watch into four labelled strata — sapphire, ceramic bezel, basalt dial, skeleton rotor — which separate as the section is entered. The collection carries eight references with their own codes, euro prices and real availability states, including Reserved, Last one and Made to order, rather than showing everything as in stock. The emblem and lockup are rendered 3D pieces shipped as transparent WebP at three densities.