Atum

The Atum collection was born as Moritz Grossmann's response to the need to offer a more attainable entry point into its catalogue, without however watering down the technical and aesthetic identity the manufacture had built with the Benu. The name recalls Atum, the Egyptian creator deity in the mythology of Heliopolis — consistent with the brand's taste for ancient Egyptian references already seen in the Benu — and the line presents itself with more compact cases and proportions designed also for less generous wrists, including the Atum 37 variant with a 37 mm diameter.

Aesthetically the Atum revives the brand's classic layout — silvered dial, small seconds at 6 o'clock, blued hands with a faceted profile — enriching it in some executions with a pointer date, indicated by an additional hand that runs along a numbered scale around the dial's edge and adjusted via a second, independent crown. On the technical front it carries the same constructive principles as the rest of the manufacture, including the balance-stop system triggered by pulling the crown, retained even in the executions conceived as a first contact with the brand.

Over time the line has also hosted more elaborate variants, such as the Atum Backpage, which moves the display of the mechanism from the case back to the dial side to show the Grossmann balance and the hand-engraved snailed wheel in transparency: a demonstration of how, while remaining the catalogue's most accessible offering, the Atum does not give up the house's distinctive technical solutions.