Furlan Marri Outback Songlines Review: A Hunter Case That Sings
Back on the Furlan Marri Trail
I have genuinely missed a Furlan Marri release. Ever since the Disco Volante collection, which remains one of my favourite collections of all time and one of the most perfectly executed (the Disco Verde still lives rent free in my head), I have caught myself asking the same question every few months: how will they outdo themselves next? The Furlan Marri Outback Songlines is the latest attempt at an answer, and it arrives with a hunter caseback, a deep brown dial, and enough rose gold to make me drop any pretence of neutrality.
For anyone new to the name, Furlan Marri is a Swiss watch brand founded in 2021 by two friends, Andrea Furlan from Switzerland and Hamad Al Marri from Saudi Arabia. The brand launched on Kickstarter and hit its funding goal in 35 seconds, then picked up the Horological Revelation Prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève in its very first year. The founding idea was to bring back emotional watchmaking, where design, detail, and narrative carry as much weight as precision, and every project since has been designed in house with the kind of attention to detail usually reserved for far pricier watchmaking, shared step by step with a community of thousands along the way.
The Outback Songlines belongs to Furlan Marri Editions, a series of collaborative retailer editions developed with selected boutiques around the world. This one is the second Edition created with Time + Tide, a partner since the brand’s early days, and like the first, it takes its cue from the Australian Outback. It launches on September 19 2026 at a retail price of CHF 1,850 and will be sold exclusively through them, first online during a 24-hour window and then only in their boutiques. On paper, it is a steel automatic measuring 39 millimetres. In reality, there is a lot more going on, starting with the story that gave it a name.
Songlines: A Map Made of Music
For millennia, the Aboriginal peoples of Australia crossed vast territories without maps or instruments. What they relied on instead were Songlines: melodies and chants that, sung in sequence, describe the landscape and mark where to find waterholes, shelter, and resources. Sing them in order and the route unfolds, which allowed people to retrace long journeys across their lands without ever losing their way.
Considered one of the oldest memory systems in the world, Songlines are far from a historical footnote. They remain essential to Indigenous communities today, keeping a living connection to ancestral history and carrying generations of knowledge about the land and its natural balances.
Furlan Marri sees an echo of its own ethos in that: memory handed down, and stories that bring a community together. The dial translates the arid Outback into warm tones and rose gold highlights, and the reference lives in that palette rather than in any literal motif, which feels like the right call (a story told with restraint tends to age better than one told with decoration).
A Dial Built on Brown and Rose Gold
Let me get my bias out of the way early: I am a sucker for rose gold releases, and if any brand has perfected rose gold accents in this price range, it is Furlan Marri. The Outback Songlines is a case in point. The base is a deep brown with a grained and lacquered finish, the grained texture filling the centre while a glossier brown ring frames it. Around the edge, a domed outer ring carries a warm toned minute track with numerals every five minutes, and all the indications are double printed.
The colour scheme is where this watch really wins me over. Brown and rose gold is a pairing that can turn heavy very quickly, but the polished steel of the hands and indexes keeps everything bright, and the accents feel unmistakably Furlan Marri: specific, fitting, and confident without being loud. It is the sort of palette that should shift from espresso to something closer to red earth as the light moves (fitting, given the brief).
The detail work borders on obsessive in the best possible way. At twelve, three, six, and nine, applied stainless steel indexes curve as they run toward the outer ring, while polished half-spheres in steel mark the remaining hours. Beneath the Furlan Marri logo, a single word in bright red reads EDITIONS, the only splash of red on the entire dial and a smart way of flagging this watch as something outside the core catalogue. The domed stainless steel hour and minute hands keep things classic, and then the seconds hand arrives plated in 4N rose gold to tie the centre of the dial back to the minute track. 4N, for the curious, is one of the standardised Swiss colour grades for gold alloys, a warm pink rose shade that sits one step softer than the redder 5N.
It is not a dial that shouts, but it rewards every second look. The case has a trick of its own.
A Hunter Case Grown to 39 Millimetres
The Outback Songlines revisits the hunter case, hinged caseback and all, that Furlan Marri first introduced on the Red Hunter anniversary piece, scaling it up from 36 to 39 millimetres. The design pays homage to watches popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries among hunters, equestrians, and military officers, people who needed durability and legibility above all else, and whose hunter-case pocket watches protected the glass with a cover before the idea moved onto the wrist.
The case is 316L stainless steel with alternating polished and brushed surfaces and deep engraving. It measures 39 millimetres across, 47 millimetres from lug to lug, and 12.06 millimetres thick including the crystal, which is a fair profile for a watch carrying a double caseback (an arrangement Furlan Marri credits for durability as much as looks). A screw-down crown and 10 ATM (100 metres) of water resistance make it a genuine everyday proposition, and the scratch-resistant sapphire crystal on both front and back gets five layers of anti-reflective coating plus a fingerprint-resistant coating.
The fun starts when you turn it over. A discreet notch on the side lets you open the hunter lid, engraved with the Outback Songlines name, and underneath you find two things: a special Time + Tide engraving and a sapphire window onto the rose gold rotor that Furlan Marri first introduced on the Red Hunter (fidgeters, consider yourselves warned). It is a small piece of theatre, and it keeps the display window covered until you decide it is worth showing someone.
Movement: La Joux-Perret G100 Under the Lid
Powering the Outback Songlines is the G100 automatic calibre from Manufacture La Joux-Perret, made in La Chaux-de-Fonds and previously used by Furlan Marri in the Cornes de Vache collection. It measures 11½ lines (25.6 millimetres) across and 4.45 millimetres thick, runs on 24 jewels at 28,800 vph (4 Hz), and delivers a 68-hour power reserve, with Furlan Marri quoting precision of plus or minus seven seconds per day. That reserve matters more than it sounds: take the watch off on Friday evening and it should still be running when you pick it up again after the weekend (rotation guilt, solved).
The rotor is tungsten, chosen for its weight distribution and smooth rotation, and it carries a 4N rose gold coating that mirrors the seconds hand on the dial side, plus an engraving of the brand name above the line "crafted with care, designed for details". The finishing matches what Furlan Marri applied on the Cornes de Vache: Côtes de Genève, snailing (a spiral graining applied to round surfaces), and blued-steel screws. That engraved line could easily read as marketing, but on this particular watch it is hard to argue with.
Bracelet, Strap and a Box to Match
Furlan Marri ships the Outback Songlines with two options. The first is a three-row stainless steel bracelet supplied with its own adjustment tool (no queue at the jeweller required). The second is a brown calf leather strap, cut from Italian or French leather like every Furlan Marri strap, and the brand fits its straps with a quick-release system, so switching is a job for your fingernails, not a spring bar tool.
The pin buckle is stainless steel, signed, brushed on the inside, and engraved with the reference number, exactly the kind of detail most owners will rarely see and Furlan Marri includes anyway. Everything arrives in a brown box matched to the watch, with a certificate, archives, and a cleaning cloth. Two looks in one box, then: brown leather for full Outback warmth, steel for something sportier.
Why It’s Special
The Outback Songlines is more than a retailer exclusive with a fresh dial colour. It combines a functional hunter case, a properly decorated Swiss automatic, and a colour story with genuine meaning behind it.
- A hunter case that earns its place: the hinged lid is not decoration for its own sake. It covers the sapphire exhibition window, hides a special engraving, and brings a 19th-century pocket watch idea to a modern wristwatch.
- Rose gold handled with precision: the 4N seconds hand, the warm printed minute track, and the 4N rotor coating all speak the same language. In my book, nobody in this price range uses rose gold accents as convincingly as Furlan Marri.
- Detail density: curved applied indexes at twelve, three, six, and nine, polished half-spheres elsewhere, a domed outer ring, and a single red EDITIONS signature. Nothing on this dial feels accidental.
- A serious movement for the money: the La Joux-Perret G100 brings 68 hours of power reserve, a tungsten rotor, Côtes de Genève, snailing, and blued-steel screws. Plenty of Swiss automatics at a similar price still use an undecorated workhorse calibre with around 38 hours of reserve, so this is a meaningful step up.
- A story with substance: the Songlines inspiration is carried through colour rather than borrowed imagery, which gives the watch a narrative well beyond a catchy name.
Verdict: Another Record Worth Spinning
The Outback Songlines is for the collector who wants an everyday Swiss automatic at 39 millimetres with more going on than first meets the eye: warm brown dials, the Red Hunter's hinged caseback in a larger size, and, naturally, a rose gold weakness as pronounced as mine.
At CHF 1,850, you get a hinged hunter caseback, a La Joux-Perret G100 with 68 hours of reserve and genuine finishing, sapphire front and back, 100 metres of water resistance, and both a steel bracelet and a leather strap in the box. It launches on September 19 2026 exclusively through Time + Tide, with a 24-hour online window before it moves to their boutiques only, so plan accordingly.
So, did Furlan Marri outdo themselves after the Disco Volante? I will let you be the judge of that one, but if you have been looking for a reason to set an alarm for September 19, consider this it.
Specifications
- Brand: Furlan Marri
- Model: Outback Songlines (Furlan Marri Editions x Time + Tide)
- Case Material: 316L stainless steel, alternating polished and brushed finishes with deep engraving
- Case Dimensions: 39mm diameter, 47mm lug to lug, 12.06mm thick (with crystal)
- Caseback: Double caseback, hinged hunter-style lid over an open caseback with sapphire crystal
- Water Resistance: 10 ATM / 100m
- Strap: Three-row stainless steel bracelet with adjustment tool, plus brown calf leather strap with quick-release system and signed stainless steel pin buckle
- Crystal: Scratch-resistant sapphire front and back, five layers of anti-reflective coating and one fingerprint-resistant coating
- Dial: Deep brown and rose gold tones, grained and lacquered finish, applied curved indexes and half-spheres in stainless steel, double printed indications, domed outer ring
- Hands: Domed stainless steel, 4N rose gold-plated seconds hand
- Movement: La Joux-Perret G100 automatic, 11½ lines (25.6mm), 4.45mm thick, 24 jewels, 28,800 vph (4 Hz), ±7 seconds per day, engraved tungsten rotor with 4N rose gold coating, Côtes de Genève, snailing, blued-steel screws
- Power Reserve: 68 hours
- Lume: Not specified
- Limited Edition: Retailer exclusive Furlan Marri Edition for Time + Tide, no production number announced
- Price: CHF 1,850
- Launch Date: September 19 2026
The Outback Songlines will be available exclusively on Time + Tide.
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About Furlan Marri Outback Songlines: Key Questions Answered
Where can I buy the Furlan Marri Outback Songlines?
The Outback Songlines is a Furlan Marri Edition sold exclusively through Time + Tide. It launches on September 19 2026, first online during an exclusive 24-hour window and then only through Time + Tide boutiques. Furlan Marri lists the retail price at CHF 1,850.
How big is the Furlan Marri Outback Songlines?
The 316L stainless steel case measures 39mm in diameter, 47mm from lug to lug, and 12.06mm thick including the crystal. It is a scaled-up version of the 36mm hunter case Furlan Marri first introduced on the Red Hunter, and it offers 100m of water resistance with a screw-down crown.
What is under the hunter caseback of the Outback Songlines?
A discreet notch on the side of the case lets you open the hinged hunter lid. Underneath sits a special Time + Tide engraving and a sapphire exhibition window showing the La Joux-Perret G100 automatic, with its engraved tungsten rotor in 4N rose gold, Côtes de Genève, snailing, and blued-steel screws. The G100 beats at 28,800 vph and offers a 68-hour power reserve.
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