Lucerne-based Chronoswiss brews up a storm with its all-black Open Gear ReSec Hurricane, the latest model within the independent watchmaker’s regulator-layout Open Gear ReSec collection. Each new limited edition in the collection displays an inventive, hand-crafted movement-plate ‘dial’ treatment, and this new model is no exception.
On the new Open Gear ReSec Hurricane, the namesake storm is crafted by hand by Chronoswiss with the aid of a century-old rose-engine turning machine. The swirling guilloché appears across the multi-level movement plate. The hour ring hovers above the fray alongside the 120-degree retrograde second display bridge.
This multi-part dial, which is actually part of the automatic Chronoswiss C.301 movement, highlights the regulator’s large central minute hand that crosses atop the prominent hour display at 12 o’clock. 
Named for its premier function (ReSec stands for Retrograde Seconds), the watch’s jumping seconds hand along the lower half of the dial operates in a half-circle, leaping from the thirty seconds position back to start its arc to complete counting each minute.
Chronoswiss wisely builds large pillars of solid SuperLuminova to create the five-minute markers, which appear like beacons in the storm at night.
The 44mm black DLC-cased steel Open Gear ReSec Hurricane, with the familiar Chronoswiss knurled bezel and onion crown, is a limited edition of fifty.
Price: $12,000.
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