Showing at WatchTime New York: Chronoswiss Flying Grand Regulator Open Gear ReSec
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, one of the Lucerne-based brand’s showcase pieces at the upcoming WatchTime New York event in October.
Chronoswiss Flying Grand Regulator Open Gear ReSec (Ref. CH-6925-BKGRE)
Measuring 44 mm in diameter and 13.35 mm thick, the 17-piece case ? in 18k rose gold, stainless steel or DLC-coated steel ? 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 colors of the case carry over seamlessly into the dial ? which is essentially, in the Open Gear design, part of the movement ? whose elaborate guilloché motif was executed by hand on a historical rose engine. The dial’s larg...
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