Chronoswiss is bringing its very latest second generation regulator watches and a brand new Strike Two collection to WatchPro Salon in London later this year.
WatchPro Salon takes place from Friday, November 1, to Saturday, November 2, at the spectacular The Londoner Hotel on Leicester Square in the heart of the capital.
Munich-based Gerd-Rüdiger Lang founded Chronoswiss in 1983 with a mission to keep innovation in mechanical watchmaking alive in an era when the accuracy of quartz was still a considerable challenge to Swiss and German haute horologists.
Using micro engineering and a keen eye for striking designs and novelties including the world’s first mechanical chronograph with a moon phase indication, Mr Lang built a global watch business that disrupted the status quo.
At the end of the 1980s, Chronoswiss pivoted into producing regulator watches — where hours, minutes and seconds are displayed independently — and has specialized in the timekeepers for over 35 years with increasing complexity, sophistication and ever-more-elaborate styling.
Chronoswiss was sold in 2012 by Mr Lang to the family of Oliver Ebstein, who has been its CEO ever since, and was the among first to offer his condolences when the company’s founder passed away last year.
Chronoswiss ReSec Manufacture
Chronoswiss used this year’s Watches and Wonders in Geneva to introduce two radical new lines of watches, both of which will be presented for the first time in the UK at WatchPro Salon.
First is the ReSec Manufacture, which comes in three models, each limited to just 100 pieces.
The collection is a new generation of regulators with three-dimensional hand-guillochéd dials.
Hours are shown on a skeletonized display at the top of the dial, a central hand shows minutes and a retrograde hand in the lower half of the face tracks seconds in 30 second increments.
Chronoswiss is known for eye-catching designs and colour combinations, and the ReSec Manufacture collection does not disappoint.
In addition to the bright orange and royal blue model, with its rubber strap in a matching orange, there are also pieces in black and gold or red and blue.
Two of the watches come in 42mm x 14.2mm titanium cases, which retail for €15,300 while the black piece comes in a rose gold case and is priced at €23,400.
They use a new C.6005 manufacture movement with ruthenium plating, a tungsten rotor and Côtes de Genève finishing radiating from the center to echo the brand’s signature ray guilloché.
The movement was developed in collaboration with La Joux-Perret and has 55 hours of power reserve.
Chronoswiss Strike Two
Also being introduced to British watch lovers for the first time at WatchPro Salon is the Chronoswiss Strike Two Series of regulators with small seconds, central minutes and hours displayed in a straight line through the centre of their dials.
The subdial has an open heart to expose part of the movement’s gearwork below, and is held in place by two visible bridges. Chronoswiss’s famous mastery of guilloché decoration is put to work in the small seconds subdial at 9 o’clock.
Chronoswiss worked with La Joux-Perret to create a unique movement for the collection, which is slim enough to give the watches a 12.7mm profile for their 40mm stainless steel cases.
The decorated movements are presented through an exhibition case back.
Two references in the Strike Two Series are the Golden Gear, which combines a dark grey dial with rose gold accents, and H2O: A Fluid Masterpiece, which has a striking 3D light blue dial.
Both are limited to 100 pieces and are retailing now for €10,800.