The Brew Metric Taxi Cab is a New York special, made by Brew for the Windup Watch Fair NY. It takes the brand’s compact 1970s-style chronograph into the city’s most recognizable colors: taxi yellow, asphalt black, and the black-and-white checker stripe that ran along the sides of classic cabs. Brew founder Jonathan Ferrer has always drawn on industrial design and everyday objects, and the result here is a playful, unmistakably New York take on the Metric. “NEW YORK” is printed in the minute track at six o’clock. 

The 316L stainless steel case is 36mm wide, 41.5mm lug-to-lug and 10.75mm thick. Its cushion shape is finished with crisp brushed surfaces and polished bevels, and a sapphire crystal sits on top. The dial is matte black with a checker stripe running corner to corner. Two sunray-textured subdials, in yellow and silver-and-yellow, sit at 9 and 6 o’clock. Polished applied indices with lume, yellow-tipped hands, and a yellow-and-black striped chronograph seconds hand finish the look. A date window sits at 4:30. The watch is fitted to Brew’s integrated, brushed stainless steel bracelet with a folding clasp.

Inside is a Seiko meca-quartz chronograph movement. It pairs quartz timekeeping with a mechanical chronograph module, which gives a crisp start, stop and snap-back reset at the pushers. Functions are hours, minutes, chronograph seconds, a chronograph minute counter, and date. Water resistance is 5 ATM (50 meters), fine for splashes and handwashing but not for swimming.