The story
Sea-Gull is one of the major watch companies in China, based in Tianjin. This watch itself if a 'small seconds' design whereby the second hand doesn't revolve around the main axis, but in a smaller subdial. This creates an area of interest in the dial that also presents a visual challenge to the art design.
The idea here was to integrate traditional chinese painting designs, which are often based on nature; trees, birds, flowers, with a modern style. Chinese painting is often done in inks with a limited color pallette, often very quickly since you can't re-work the ink; it must be done first time. This tends to give the works a vibrancy and pace, where every stroke counts, though at the expense of depth of color. This design, of the famous Chang Bai mountain pine tree, aims to keep a very limited color pallette; with some simple dark browns, green and gold leaf paint to capture the tree's features and potentially the late afternoon sunlight in a wintry mountainside.