Lucky Harvey is a Guangzhou watchmaker founded in 2021 that presents itself as the first Chinese brand built around automata. Its watches put a moving scene on the dial and, on most models, an hour chime to go with it: a snake that flicks out its tongue, a dragon spitting a gold bead, a horse, or the Genghis Khan piece from the Dynasty collection, where a figure in relief sits over a guilloché ground.

The core is the in-house CAL.LH003 — hour chiming, 4 Hz, 30 jewels, 40-hour power reserve — in a 40 mm grade-5 titanium case 11 mm thick, under sapphire and water resistant to 5 ATM. The Chiming Watch 2.0 line runs limited editions of 100 with dials brushed by hand, two to three hours of work each, and of 50 with a Muonionalusta meteorite face, at 2,199 to 2,399 dollars. Below them sits a playful game series — roulette, slot machine, mahjong — around 1,199 dollars, and simpler automatics from a few hundred. The catalogue runs from roughly 200 to 2,399 dollars, with free worldwide shipping and a two-year international warranty.