THE FUTURE
IS LIGHT
We believe doing better should never cost you the life you want to live.
Solios exists to make doing good effortless. We set out to build a watch you’d choose for the way it looks and the way it lasts, that also happens to be one of the most responsible watches you can wear.
we refused to choose.
Everyone in the industry told us to pick one. Two if we were lucky. Powered by light, beautiful, good for the planet. We were too stubborn to pick.
Since 2019, that same stubbornness sits in every watch we've made: a refusal to trade how it looks for how it's made, or how it's made for how it looks.
We couldn't find the watch we wanted. So we spent three years building it.
RUNS ON LIGHT
Any light charges it. Sunlight, daylight, even a desk lamp. It keeps running in the dark for up to a year, with no battery to change and nothing to service. You wear it, the world charges it. Doing good has never taken less effort.
LOOKS LIKE TEN TIMES ITS PRICE
Beauty came first, and we were relentless about it. The thought behind every angle, every cut, every colour. Designed to look as good in twenty years as it does today. No loud logos, just the kind of watch people stop to ask about. And when they ask, you've got a story worth telling.
DOES GOOD, QUIETLY
Recycled steel. PU-free vegan leather. Locally made, recycled packaging. The first B Corp certified watch brand in the world. Not the loud kind of good, just the kind we were built on. Not for the badge, just why we exist.
Our history
It didn't happen overnight
Solios took years of stubbornness, a few plane tickets, and one documentary. Here's how a watch that runs on light came to be.
2016 • FOUNDERS, EARLY DAYS
IT STARTED WITH A DOCUMENTARY
Two friends from Montréal, Sam and Alex, watched Before the Flood one night and decided whatever they built had to be good for the world, not just good business.
2017
THE IDEA, UNDER THE GREEK SUN
Somewhere between Paros and Ios, it clicked: a watch that was minimal, solar, and built to last.
2017
A flight to Japan
They went to the home of the solar movement to learn how to build a solar watch properly, and came back with everything they needed.
2018 • KICKSTARTER LAUNCH NIGHT / STAGE
The night the world said yes
600
people at the event
$130K
pledged in total
The watch nobody could find had a waiting list.
2019
The first Solios watches ship
Three years in the making, finally on wrists.
2020
The first B Corp watch brand on earth
Not a badge we bought. A standard we chose to be held to.
2021
The country starts to notice
A pitch on Dans l'œil du dragon. Coverage in Global News, Elle, La Presse, TVA, and beyond. Two friends and an idea were becoming a name people knew.
2022
The Curve Design that broke the mould
A single-sided curved sapphire crystal, something a minimalist solar watch had never worn. The moment solar stopped meaning plain, and design became a reason to choose Solios.
2026 • SUNSEEKER IN LIGHT
Discover the Sunseeker →
The Sunseeker. Assembled in Canada.
Our most advanced watch yet, and the first we assemble at home. Building responsibly, closer than ever.
We think the future is light
Not heavier, not louder. Lighter. Powered by the world instead of draining it. If that's the kind of choice you like making, you're already one of us.