WatchTime Los Angeles kicks off this Friday, May 3, with 27 sponsoring watch brands and a host of watch-industry VIPs. Among the brands’ new products on display will be, of course, some new chronograph models making their U.S. debut after being introduced at Baselworld or SIHH. Here are seven that are worthy of a closer look.
The Bremont Arrow is an aviator-style chronograph hailing from Bremont’s new Armed Forces Collection, a trilogy of new models developed in partnership with the British Ministry of Defence that take their inspiration from the famous ?Dirty Dozen,? a series of watches commissioned by the British Army during World War II. Housed in a two-part 42-mm case made of hardened steel and powered by the chronometer-rated, automatic BE-51AE movement, the watch features a chronograph operated by a monopusher at 2 o?clock, with readouts indicated by a central red-arrow-tipped chronograph seconds hand, and subdials at 3 o?clock and 9 o?clock for 30 elapsed chronograph minutes and for running seconds, respectively. The matte black dial, which also has a date window at 6 o’clock, has mint-colored Super-LumiNova details. The caseback, like those of all the Armed Forces models, bears the heraldic badges of all three of Britain?s military services, the Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force (RAF); the watch?s strap is in RAF-style blue sailcloth. Bremont Arrow
Chronoswiss’s navy-dialed Sirius Chronograph Moon Phase combines a stopwatch with a moon-ph...