The Austrian watchmaking firm Habring² has introduced a new perpetual calendar monopusher rattrapante chronograph that builds on the brand’s expertise in creating split-second timers. Given the name Perpetual-Doppel, it is the most complicated Habring² watch released to date.

Fronted by the husband and wife duo of Richard and Maria Habring, the eponymous watch company has a history with split-second chronographs that goes back a long while. Richard developed the split-second chronograph as a module atop a Valjoux 7750 movement for IWC Schaffhausen more than 25 years ago. It was the first split-second chronograph to use a cam system for the chronograph and rattrapante function. That movement first debuted in the Pilot?s Watch Double Chronograph Ref. 3711. And IWC alum, Richard would go on to start his own watch brand, and after the patent on the system he developed for IWC expired in 2012, Habring introduced the Doppel 2.0, a split-seconds chronograph based on a Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement. It would go on to win the Best Sport?s Watch Prize at the Grand Prix d?Horlogerie de Genève that year. In 2018, the brand unveiled the Doppel-Felix, a split-seconds monopusher chronograph based on a movement developed in-house. That watch would end up taking home the the Petite Aiguille award at GPHG 2018.

The new Perpetual-Doppel builds on this timepiece with the addition of a perpetual calendar module. The watch uses a stainless steel 43-mm wide case, Habring² says it...