The Nezumi Voiture VM2—an automatic version of the chronograph that marked the Swedish brand's entry into watchmaking in 2015—features a Peacock caliber and a thickness of 12.9 mm.
Nezumi began in Stockholm in 2011 as a side project of David Campo, a designer who was working as a creative director in the fashion industry, and its first products were denim and leather goods. In 2015 the brand moved into watches with the Voiture, a mecha-quartz chronograph inspired by the motorsport models of the 1960s and 1970s, which found its audience through Kickstarter. Campo has designed the watches in Sweden ever since, while assembly and quality control are done in Germany.
Until now the Voiture had seen only one mechanical series: the VM1S, 300 pieces with the Swiss hand-wound Sellita SW510 caliber, which the brand introduced in 2022 for its tenth anniversary. On September 30 Nezumi put the Voiture VM2 on sale. It is the first automatic Voiture, a column-wheel chronograph offered in two references, VM2.202 and VM2.1102, and it joins the regular catalog alongside the mecha-quartz versions, which remain on sale.
Technical Specs
| References | VM2.202 (black and gray dial with white counters) and VM2.1102 (gray and black dial with orange and cream details) |
| Case | Brushed 316L steel; 40 mm in diameter, 12.9 mm thick with the crystal (11 mm without it), 47 mm lug to lug, 20 mm between the lugs |
| Bezel and crown | Fixed aluminum bezel, 39 mm, with tachymeter scale; push-pull crown |
| Crystal and back | Double-domed sapphire, 1.9 mm, with anti-reflective coating on the inside; screw-in engraved steel caseback |
| Water resistance | 5 ATM (50 m) |
| Dial | Recessed counters and applied brushed steel indices; hands and indices with Super-LumiNova |
| Caliber | Peacock SL-4801, automatic chronograph with column wheel and vertical clutch; 28,800 vph (4 Hz), 41 jewels, power reserve of about 55 hours |
| Functions | Hours and minutes; small seconds at 6 o'clock; chronograph with central seconds, 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock and 12-hour counter at 9 o'clock; tachymeter scale |
| Strap | Perforated leather (black or brown), canvas (black or moss green) or Colin 2.2 steel bracelet |
| Price and availability | EUR 850 on a strap and EUR 902 on the bracelet on the official website; on pre-order, with the next batch expected at the end of October 2026; 2-year warranty |
A slimmer case
The brushed 316L steel case keeps the dimensions of the VM1S: 40 mm across and 47 mm lug to lug. The fixed aluminum bezel, which carries a tachymeter scale, measures 39 mm, a millimeter less than the case, so the profile narrows toward the dial. The VM2's case is thinner, though: 11 mm, or 12.9 mm with its double-domed sapphire crystal. The VM1S, which was wound by hand and so had no rotor, measured 14.5 mm with a crystal of the same thickness, which makes the first automatic Voiture 1.6 mm slimmer than its predecessor. According to the brand, raising the dial beneath the domed crystal allowed a slimmer case profile.
Water resistance is 5 ATM. Nezumi specifies that the rating covers rain, handwashing and splashes, and that the watch is not meant for swimming or showering.
Two dials with a central band
Both references share the same layout of recessed counters: small seconds at 6 o'clock, the 30-minute counter at 3 and the 12-hour counter at 9. The two chronograph counters sit inside a band in a different tone that runs across the dial from side to side, and the two versions differ in their colors. On the VM2.202 the dial is black, the band is gray and all three counters are white. On the VM2.1102 the base is gray and the band is black, the 12-hour counter is cream, the 30-minute counter combines cream, black and orange, and the central chronograph hand is orange.
The applied indices are brushed steel and carry Super-LumiNova, as do the hour and minute hands. Nezumi offers five ways to wear the watch: a perforated rally-style leather strap in black or brown, a canvas strap in black or moss green, and the Colin 2.2 steel bracelet, with five rows of links, which costs 52 euros more than the straps.
The Peacock SL-4801 caliber
The movement is the SL-4801 from Peacock, a manufacturer in Liaoning province, in northeastern China, which has produced it since 2023. It is an automatic chronograph with a column wheel and a vertical clutch. The column wheel is a small rotating part with pillars, something like a tiny castle turret, that coordinates the chronograph's start, stop and reset. The vertical clutch connects the chronograph to the rest of the movement through two discs pressed against each other, so the central hand starts without the small jump that can occur when the connection is made with toothed wheels. The caliber runs at 4 Hz, has 41 jewels and a power reserve of about 55 hours.
At 6.5 mm tall according to Nezumi, it is lower than the ETA Valjoux 7750, one of the most widely used Swiss automatic chronographs, which measures 7.9 mm, and that partly explains the thickness of the case. In 2024 the SL-4801 appeared in the Serie-R Tangerine from the French brand Depancel, and Monochrome, which reviewed that watch, described the caliber's architecture as strongly influenced by that of the Rolex 4130, with less refined decoration and technical solutions. According to Nezumi, each movement is inspected, lubricated where needed, regulated and tested in Germany during assembly. It is a caliber with only a few years on the market, and its long-term behavior is less documented than that of a caliber like the 7750, in production since the 1970s.
Ordering from Spain and Latin America
Nezumi sells the Voiture VM2 on its own website, which charges in euros: 850 on any of the straps and 902 on the bracelet. The site can display prices in dollars, with a note that the conversion is an estimate. For orders within the European Union, Spain included, the price includes VAT and there are no additional charges on delivery. For Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and other countries outside the EU, shipping is free and goes by FedEx, insured, usually in three to five business days, but Nezumi does not collect import taxes at checkout: the buyer pays whatever duties, VAT and customs fees apply in each country when the watch arrives.
The watch is on pre-order: on October 1, a day after the launch, Nezumi said the first batch had sold out, and the site says the next one will arrive at the end of October. The warranty is two years, returns must be requested within 14 days of delivery, and servicing is arranged by emailing the brand, which recommends it every five years for mechanical watches worn regularly.
A slim, automatic Voiture
With the VM2, the mechanical Voiture becomes a regular production model. The VM1S was a limited series that sold for 1,679 euros, as Fratello reported in 2022; the VM2 is not limited to a set number of pieces and costs about half as much, with an automatic column-wheel, vertical-clutch caliber inside a case slimmer than that of the hand-wound chronograph.
The mecha-quartz Voiture, with the Seiko VK63 caliber, stays in the catalog, at 396 euros on a strap for the reference VQ4.202, and keeps the advantages of that kind of movement, which ORELO covered in an article, in Spanish, on the Yema Rallygraf Meca-Quartz: a lower price and maintenance that generally comes down to a battery change. In the VM2, both the time and the chronograph depend entirely on a mechanical movement that winds itself with wear. Eleven years after its first watch, Nezumi offers the Voiture with both kinds of movement, and the automatic version is an option for those who prefer that design with a mechanical caliber.
