Nestled in the heart of Colorado, where sunrise paints the peaks in molten gold, alpine lakes reflect snow-capped peaks, and wildflowers bloom in unapologetic color, one company dares to redefine what it means to wear time on your wrist. 5280 Watch Company, born exactly one mile high, isn’t just creating watches—We’re forging wearable art and heirlooms of craftsmanship through centuries-old techniques nearly lost to time and practiced by only a handful of artisans worldwide.

At the soul of every 5280 timepiece is a canvas of .999 pure silver, engraved by hand using a 1914 rose engine lathe, the same tool once used to decorate Fabergé eggs. Onto this low-relief silver, artists apply Basse-Taille—a 11th-century enameling technique where translucent glass powder fuses to silver under 1,400°F of fire over the top of hand-engraved Guilloché. The process—called Grand Feu enameling—requires up to 30 hours per dial, and the stakes are high: three out of four dials don’t survive the fire. What remains is rare, eternal, and unlike anything else in modern horology.