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Chronoswiss Launches Titanium Opus

Chronoswiss lightens its groundbreaking Opus skeletonized chronograph with the new Opus Chronograph Titanium, a modernized update of the original Opus, a watch Chronoswiss introduced in 1995 as one of the first serially-produced automatic skeletonized chronographs.

The new Chronoswiss Opus Chronograph Titanium, also available with green accents.

It’s hard to overstate the influence of the original Opus, which graced watch publications (including this one) and collector wrists worldwide in the years after its debut. Its transparency exposed a new generation of aficionados to the artistry and technical beauty of mechanical watchmaking.

The industry saw a general uptick in skeleton-dialed debuts from a wide range of watchmakers for years following the Opus debut.

Chronoswiss is now offering a contemporary take on the classic Opus design, casing two variations in grade-5 titanium.

The same levers, gears and cams remain as visible as ever here, with Chronoswiss adding a CVD-coating to the watch’s caliber C.741S, an ETA Valjoux-based integrated chronograph movement.

With galvanic black skeletonized bridges, the movement retains its mesmerizing allure to enthusiasts while adding a stealthy modern twist. Look for two color options, green and blue, each of which frame and complement the movement’s web of blackened and CVD-coated gears and levers. (See specifications below).

Offered in steel within the current Chronoswiss collection, the modern Opus Chronograph has not previously been made using a titanium case with the exception of a customized thirty-piece collection created with the Singapore-based Grail Watch.

“The new Opus Titanium arrives just in time to mark our 40th anniversary,” explains Oliver Epstein, CEO of Lucern-based Chronoswiss. “This watch is not just a product; it’s a statement of our relentless pursuit of innovation and our respect for tradition.”

Price: $14,500. 

Specifications: Chronoswiss Opus Chronograph Titanium

(References CH-7543T.1S-BL2 and CH7543T.1S-DGR) 

Case: 41mm by 14.80mm, solid 23 pieces, grade-5 titanium, with satin finish and polished, bezel with partial knurling and curved, double coated anti-reflective sapphire crystal, screw-down case back with satin finish and sapphire crystal, onion crown, water resistance to 100 meters, screw-in lugs with patented Auto bloc system. 

Movement: Chronoswiss Caliber C.741S, automatic (ETA Valjoux-based), skeletonized, 4 Hz., 28,800 vph, power reserve of 46 hours, skeletonized and CVD-plated rotor with Côtes de Genève, ball bearings; polished pallet lever, escape wheel and screws; skeletonized bridges and base plate with perlage, galvanic black.

Dial: Skeletonized, blue or green CVD-coated matte finish, Breguet lozenge-shaped hands, rhodium plated. 

Strap: Textile cordura. 

Price: $14,500

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Chronoswiss Adds Purple Mystery to Open Gear ReSec Series

Chronoswiss expands its Open Gear ReSec collection with the purple-and-black-dialed Open Gear ReSec Voodoo.

The new Chronoswiss Open Gear ReSec Voodoo.

Meant to recall “ancient Voodoo rituals” the hand-cut guilloche dial is both dark and somewhat mysterious thanks to both its color and its multi-layer, regulator-style dial layout.

Named for its premier function (ReSec stands for Retrograde Seconds), the watch’s jumping seconds hand operates in a half-circle, leaping from the thirty seconds position back to start its arc to complete counting each minute.

The Open Gear design displays off-center hours (at 12 o’clock position) and a large central minutes hand in addition to the retrograde seconds display at the 6 o’clock position.

In addition to the regulator layout, the Open Gear ReSec Voodoo features all the expected Chronoswiss design codes, including a three-dimensional dial, an onion crown and a fluted bezel.

The watch’s case measures 44mm by 13.35mm and is coated with black DLC that Chronoswiss then decorates with a matte and vertical satin finish.

Here, Chronoswiss allows the viewer to penetrate the dark dial with extra bright Super-LumiNova pillars and an unusual luminous strap, both of which combine to add spooky allure to the limited edition model.

Chronoswiss creates its One Gear ReSec series with its caliber C. 301, an automatic movement built using an in-house jumping seconds module atop a sturdy ETA 2892 caliber.

Chronoswiss then coats the Open Gear ReSec Voodoo rotor purple to match the dial. The full movement is nicely decorated with Côtes de Genève, a polished pallet lever, escape wheel and screws and perlage-finished bridges and plates.

Chronoswiss will make fifty Open Gear ReSec Voodoo watches, each priced at $12,500.

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Chronoswiss Sparks an ‘Electric’ Open Gear 

With its CVD-coated blue case and swirling black dial, the new Chronoswiss Open Gear Blue Spark is meant to echo the energy of an electrical charge.

The new Chronoswiss Open Gear Blue Spark.

The watch melds a classical regulator dial layout with a stunning hand-guilloche swirling dial pattern meant to remind its wearer of pure energy.

The Chronoswiss Open Gear series is comprised of  regulator dial watches that feature a prominent, separate central minute hand and secondary hour and seconds hands. The layout was historically placed on reference clocks for use by watchmakers to quickly read the time while setting new or repaired timepieces.

 

The swirled black dial here provides an energetic backdrop for a blue hour ring at the 12 o’clock position. This is paired with the long minute hand and a small seconds display at six o’clock, which provides its own whirlpool of time.

 

The display is presented on two levels with the upper level showcasing skeletonized gear train bridges and the hour and seconds indicators and the lower showcasing the intricate, hand-crafted dial work.

 

The Chronoswiss Open Gear style is present throughout the watch with its 41mm stainless steel case, satin-finished and polished knurled bezel and onion crown. Through the clear sapphire back you’ll see Chronoswiss’s Caliber C. 299, an automatic movement with a skeletonized rotor.

Price: $11,600. Limited edition of 50. 

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Chronoswiss Reaches for the Sun 

Chronoswiss continues to explore the universe with the new Space Timer Solaris, the independent Swiss watchmaker’s third watch in its relatively new Space Timer collection.

The new Chronoswiss Space Timer Solaris.

Like the earlier Space Timer Moonwalk and Space Timer Jupiter models, the new entry into the regulator-style collection boasts an unusual high-tech dial inspired by galactic-themes, patterns and colors.

As its name implies, the Space Timer Solaris’s fiery orange and red dial is meant to mimic the surface of the sun. Chronoswiss artisans created the dial’s textured surface by placing seventeen layers of nano-printed and laser-sculpted metal onto a gold-plated surface.

The watch’s multilayered dial is composed in part of a raised date disc and hour ring, each built from clear ITR2, a carbon nano-tube synthetic material.

Though employing a regulator dial display like the existing Open Gear ReSec series, the newer Space Timer collection offers a celestial dial theme that replaces that collection’s retrograde seconds hand with a large moon phase and date sub-dial. 

That date subdial is a heat-colored titanium globe with SuperLuminova that display the moon’s rotation and a few stars. Around the globe, miniature steel (0.6mm) ’planet’ balls serve as date indicators between Arabic numerals.

The remainder of the dial echoes the familiar Chronoswiss Open Gear regulator dial layout, with a polished and skeletonized bridge supporting the raised, decentralized hour display.

A long central minute hand and central seconds hand both rotate above the full Space Timer Solaris universe.

The watch’s rotor is skeletonized and orange-colored with Côtes de Genève finishing.

Chronoswiss fits its ETA-based C.308 automatic caliber into a 44mm by 15.2mm steel case to power this impressive galactic display. 

The Chronoswiss Space Timer Solaris is a limited edition of fifty pieces.

Price: $18,800.

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Chronoswiss Launches a Hurricane  

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.

The new Chronoswiss Open Gear ReSec Hurricane.

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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