Some watch brands begin with machinery.

Gurlevik began with a drawing, a memory and a mountain.

Founded by Yusuf Özdemir and Muhammed, Gurlevik is a young independent watch brand with its creative roots in Istanbul. Its name comes from Mount Gürlevik, a place connected to Yusuf’s youth, and carries the poetic sense of movement, permanence and time finding its way forward.

What makes Gurlevik interesting is not a claim of old manufacture prestige. It is the desire to create watches that carry stories.

The brand’s world is shaped by navigation, architecture, Eastern heritage, maritime exploration, manuscripts, ornament and cultural memory. Gurlevik does not simply decorate dials; it turns them into miniature worlds.

A Young Brand with an Old Sense of Wonder

Gurlevik’s first chapter, the Maritime Collection, draws from astrolabes, celestial charts, nautical maps and the instruments once used by sailors, scholars and explorers.

Before modern navigation, time was not just convenience. It was direction, distance and survival.

The Maritime watches translate that spirit into accessible automatic pieces with 42mm cases, sapphire crystal, Japanese Miyota movements and dials designed around exploration rather than fashion.

The Gates Collection

The Gates Collection is Gurlevik’s more architectural statement.

With its shaped 38 x 32mm case, custom-cut sapphire crystal, Miyota 9039 automatic movement, Italian leather straps and stone or miniature-style dials, the collection feels less like a standard rectangular watch and more like a small cultural object.

It asks whether a watch can carry not only time, but civilisation, ornament, geography and memory.

Divan and Decorative Storytelling

The Divan Collection, including Lale, moves deeper into Ottoman atelier culture.

Tulips, carnations, arabesque forms, mother-of-pearl and exposed movement architecture create watches that feel closer to miniature painting than conventional dial design.

This is not minimalism.

It is ornament with meaning.

Why Gurlevik Belongs at Sincrono

At Sincrono Luxury, we are drawn to independent brands with a clear point of view.

Gurlevik has one.

It is not trying to imitate Switzerland or pretend to be a century-old manufacture. Its strength lies in cultural imagination, accessible mechanical watchmaking, unusual dial design and a sincere desire to make watches connected to history and place.

Gurlevik watches are for collectors who enjoy narrative: maps, manuscripts, architecture, ornament, navigation and the romance of distant places.

A Gurlevik watch is not merely worn to tell the time.

It is worn to carry a story.