How to best enjoy life: Buy this NORQAIN watch and stand to win a one-week luxury escapade to Maldives

Swiss independent watchmaker NORQAIN has unveiled the Freedom GMT Enjoy Life “Holiday” Limited Edition, a colourful 500-piece release that embraces travel, spontaneity, and life’s little pleasures. Better still, one lucky owner will discover a hidden “Golden Ticket” that unlocks a six-night luxury holiday for two in the idyllic island paradise of Maldives.

The prize, which will be revealed through a special hidden detail on one watch, includes accommodation in an Ocean Villa at Ayada Maldives on a full-board basis (excluding alcoholic beverages), making this such a rare promotion to accompany a luxury watch launch, which just kicked off July 2026.

Presented in 40mm stainless steel, the NORQAIN Freedom GMT Enjoy Life “Holiday” Limited Edition is the first watch within the playful Enjoy Life collection featuring a second time zone function — dedicated to carefree modern-day explorers.

Anchoring the aesthetics is a white dial featuring a hand-drawn world map by the brand’s design and product development director, Matteo Mercan. Its fresh shades of orange, pink and turquoise are mirrored on the GMT ring, where the hues graduate softly from one to another, evoking the rising and setting of the summer sun.

Scattered across the dial are 25 hand-illustrated holiday-themed motifs, including the world’s most iconic cultural and natural attractions depicted on the map. From Australia’s kangaroo and Japan’s torii gate, from Thailand’s tuk-tuk to South Africa’s impala, from Hollywood’s movie-making magic to Brazil’s surf scene, each conjures up the irresistible thrill of travel.

The fun continues in the date display at 6 o’clock, where conventional numerals give way to five cheeky rotating symbols. The window cycles through a beach umbrella, swim trunks, flip-flops, sunglasses or a bikini — whimsical reminders for the wearer to embrace the holiday state of mind, and that timekeeping is more than just the mundane tracking of the calendar.

The GMT scale also marks midnight with a crescent moon and midday with a smiling sun, as well as life’s most important self-care moments, especially while on a well-deserved summer vacation: Morning Coffee between 8am and 9am, Happy Hour between 4pm and 6pm as indicated by a cocktail glass, alongside sleep time at 2am.

Despite its light-hearted design, the mechanics are serious. Powering the watch is the NORQAIN manufacture Calibre NN20/2, developed by movement specialist Kenissi.

The COSC-certified automatic movement beats at 4Hz, offers a generous 70-hour power reserve and features a traveller’s GMT function with an independently adjustable jumping local hour hand — allowing frequent flyers to reset local time and advance or reverse the date without interrupting the watch’s timekeeping.

An open sapphire caseback reveals the movement and bears the joyful “Enjoy Life” logo together with the “One of 500” limited-edition engraving. The exclusivity doesn’t end there — you may even personalise the watch via an engravable plate on the case side for a fee.

This NORQAIN Freedom GMT Enjoy Life “Holiday” Limited Edition also comes with a choice of a stainless steel bracelet or a smooth white rubber strap to take you comfortably over land or into the blue.

The travel theme extends beyond the watch itself. Each piece comes in a special aluminium travel case complete with a passport holder, a world map insert, and bucket-list pins for marking dream destinations — a fitting companion for whichever adventures lie ahead, whether they’re self-planned or, fingers-crossed, won by chance in this special launch.