CODE41 Anomaly-01 watches

CODE41, the Swiss brand, launched the Anomaly-01 through a Kickstarter campaign in 2016 that easily beat its funding goal. It shared that campaign with the Anomaly-02. Where the Anomaly-02 used a Swiss ETA 2824-2 with a date window, the Anomaly-01 runs on the Japanese Miyota 82S7, an automatic movement that shows the running seconds on a rotating disc and adds a 24-hour disc. That disc is an AM/PM indicator, not a second time zone.

CODE41 specified a 42 mm case in 316L stainless steel, a sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides, water resistance to 50 m and interchangeable straps. The case is 12.8 mm thick. The AN01-IN-BK-ST-PER-BE and AN01-IN-SIL-ST-BR are plain steel with a black or a silver dial. The AN01-BK-ST-BK puts a black dial in a black PVD-coated steel case, and the AN01-BR-ST-ALIG-BR pairs a brown dial with brown PVD. The AN01-CA-ST-PER-BE has a forged carbon case and a black dial.

In 2021, at the height of the pandemic, a supply problem cut CODE41 off from the ETA and Miyota movements used in the Anomaly-01 and 02. The Anomaly Evolution that followed keeps the technical design of the 01 but takes the Swiss movement and date of the 02; its Edition 2 uses a Sellita SW200-1.

In November 2023 CODE41 announced an Anomaly-01 Collector Edition, due for delivery in 2024 as an eighth-anniversary model. It returns to the Miyota 82S7 in a 41.5 mm steel case, 11.2 mm thick and water resistant to 100 m, with sand and white on the dial, blue hands with Super-LumiNova and a sheriff on the display caseback.