If there was an easy knock you could make against the previous iterations of the Singer Reimagined chronographs, it?s that they were too big. At 43mm in a big cushion case, they have a ton of wrist presence to be sure, and require a larger wrist to pull off effectively. But they?re mechanically ingenious, and, in my opinion, pretty great looking from a purely aesthetic perspective, so I was always willing to forgive them for their size. Now, with a pair of watches in the brand?s new Singer 1969 collection, they?ve gone a long way toward answering doubters who made the large size of their earlier watches a dealbreaker. They?ve also incorporated new functionality, refining the mechanical piece to make their watches even more intuitive. 
The 1969 Chronograph is the heavy hitter of the pair of watches announced today. This watch features an updated Agengraphe caliber that?s smaller (to fit the new 40mm case) and also includes a time display. Elapsed time is still read from the centrally mounted hands, but the current time is now displayed in an aperture at 6:00 via a pair of rotating discs. The chronograph incorporates jumping minutes and hours for precision, and the caliber is capable of timing events of up to 60 hours, which is a feat only Singer can claim. 

The more modest 1969 Timer is my personal favorite of the two new watches. This is effectively an update of Singer?s Flytrack watches, which incorporate a 60 second timer via the centrally mounted runni...