Horological Meandering

Hi, This is one of the "new" Chronoswiss models presented last year at Baselworld 2012. I believe that this is one of the first to arrive to the United States. It is a Timemaster Automatic (Ref. CH 2855 lu). It is a design update on the earlier, more trad...  

Thank you very much for such a thorough and informative overview. It was especially interesting for this novice to learn the meaning of the term ' etablisseur '. All credit to Herr Lang: Chronoswiss keeps going, and keeps improvising, where many others fa... 

I find it interesting how the industry has spent the last two decades diminishing the public presence of the traditional method of manufacturing watches. In-house vertical manufacture has been touted as superior by the industry and many collectors. I have... 

Apologies for my error. Upon closer inspection it is indeed a top grade Sellita SW300: [/URL] So it appears Swatchgroup have now cut-off companies with a 30-year relationship of buying movements from ETA. I wonder who they will continue to supply? ...  

At least the regulator and a number of others are based on reworked old movements. I know the skeleton watches like my Opus are 7750-based.

Chronoswiss does use a variety of calibers. Today, the Sirius line uses 1950s Marvin 700 bases (Chronoswiss C.111). My Regulateur 24 uses a similar caliber reconfigured for a regulateur format (C.112). [URL=] [/URL] Here is a Caliber C.112 to compare: [UR...  

Not exactly Cole Porter but.... ...  

when they were established they used vintage movements in their watches which was Herr Langs great love. if i remember correctly the Delphis had an Enicar movement amd Chronoswiss had a huge quantity of movements stored ready for use. i appreciate that th... 

To your point, Chronoswiss still uses a number of Historic calibers: Marvin 700 based (manual wind): - C.111 (used in the Sirius) Enicar 165 based (automatic): - C.122 (used in Regulateur) - C.126 (w/Dubois Depraz in Repetition a Quarts) - C.127 ( w/Duboi... 

thanls for that update and i fully agree with you. somehow i dont think swatch will fully stop supply, they may stop to their large competitors, but i like small brands and i like eta movements so i hope they keep the supply chain open. last resort and qu... 

They haven't fully stopped supply but the squeeze transition is on and each year as the amount of product they allocate to non-Swatchgroup companies decreases this will only get worse and companies will unfortunately fail. Swatchgroup has also greatly inc... 

styled Timemasters and really loved it. I think they did an excellent job on this update. Mel

Contrasting the old and the new... ...  

theres a very big difference between the old and new. i wonder what happened to the dead second movement they were supposed to be developing? wasnt there a big presentation a few years ago, i think i read it here, but the movement has materialised as far ... 

Karsten Fraessdorf was the designer of the "Sauterelle" movement that was shown by Chronoswiss at Baselworld 2009. The details of what happened are best not discussed publicly. If you would like to know more, feel free to PM me.

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