Chronoswiss Flying Grand Regulator Open Gear ReSec Hits Like a Bolt From the (Electric) Blue
Chronoswiss, whose stock-in-trade is the regulator watch, continues to develop new and intriguing variations on that 19th-century device in its increasingly colorful collection of Flying Grand Regulator wristwatches. The first Open Gear versions of the model, which placed wheels and bridges on the front of the dial in an openworked configuration, debuted in 2018, and this year the Lucerne-based brand takes this design to the next level with the Flying Grand Regulator Open Gear Retrograde Second, or ReSec. Perhaps even more notably, it does so with a dazzling “Electric Blue” color combo scarcely seen before in watchmaking.
Chronoswiss Flying Grand Regulator Open Gear ReSec (Ref. CH-6926-BLBL)
The stainless steel case of the Flying Grand Regulator Open Gear ReSec is treated with a highly scratch-resistant DLC (diamond-like carbon) that imparts a hardness of 4,500 Vickers in addition to its eye-catching, lustrous blue color. Measuring 44 mm in diameter and 13.35 mm thick, the 17-piece case houses Chronoswiss’s automatic Caliber C.301, designed to bring attention to its dial side, with skeletonized gear train bridges screwed firmly to the front, along with the funneled subdial at 12 o’clock hosting the off-center hours display, the large central minutes hand, and the model’s namesake function, the retrograde seconds display at 6 o’clock, with a hand sweeping across a 120-degree scale, jumping back to zero once every 30 seconds. The blue tone...
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