The present watch was conceived by Richard Daners in 1990 with first production in 1991, only 4 pieces with the dial " Colosse de Rhodes" were sold through Gübelin. The mechanism and dial are completely hand crafted in Gübelin's Lucerne workshop. The "Bras en l'Air" complication was previously used only on pocket watches.
The Colossus of Rhodes was the bronze statue of Helios in Rhodes, which for its size came to be reckoned among the the wonders of the world. It was made from the spoils left by Demetrius Poliorcetes when he raised the prolonged siege of Rhodes. The sculptor was Chares, a native of Lindus and of the school of Lysippus, under whose influence, the art of sculpture was led to the production of colossal figures by preference. The work occupied him for twelve years, it is said, and the finished statue stood 70 cubits high. It stood near the harbour, but at what point is not certain. When, and from what grounds the belief arose that it had stood across the entrance to the harbour, with a beacon light in its hand and ships passing between the legs, is not known, but the belief was current as early as the 16th century. The statue was destroyed by an earthquake about the year 224 B.C. The statue stood for about 56 years.