If there’s one thing (apart from snow) heralding the start of winter in Scandinavia, it’s frost. Those magical patterns form when a pane of glass is exposed to below-freezing temperatures on the outside and moist air on the inside. on glass when moist air condenses on below freezing glass.

Water vapor from the air condenses as frost on the inside surface of the window, and the ice crystals catch and reflect the light like millions of tiny diamonds.

Gos Sarek Frost on ice

Frost was a regular part of GoS co-founder and CEO Patrik Sjögren’s childhood growing up in Sweden, and the independent watchmaker spent years developing techniques to replicate the effect on a watch.

The result is the Sarek Frost.

Gos Sarek Frost Midnight Blue

The dial of the Sarek Frost features a sunray finish, with glossy transparent and matte white hues creating the scintillating appearance of frost. The hour track is formed of 12 sections of sapphire crystal mounted on tiny solid blocks of Super-LumiNova to further emphasize the play of light.

Gos Sarek Frost Midnight Blue dial details

From the book accompanying each watch:

Patrik  Sjögren spent his early years in a weathered wooden cottage in the countryside to the west of Stockholm. The windows of this cottage, framed in sturdy wood, were fitted with an inner extra window during winter to better fend off the biting chill. But this safeguard against the cold had its own charm: it transformed the glass into a canvas for frost and ice.

During the quiet nights, as the world slumbered, frost would stealthily creep in, growing delicate and intricate patterns across the windowpane. These frosty works of art greeted Patrik in the morning, a fleeting beauty that vanished under the warming gaze of the sun or the crackling hearth inside. However, traces of frost always lingered, creating a frosty halo around the sash windows.

GoSSarek Frost Ice Blue prototype on the wrist

Patrik’s desire to capture the enchantment of those frosted windows from his youth led to a unique watch dial. It’s a dial that mirrors the randomness of frost and ice patterns, with the enduring charm of an icy frame serving as indexes.

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