Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. The New Chronoswiss Q-Repeater Collection
Using a restored movement from the 1990s, the new Q-Repeaters chime the hours and quarters on demand.
Gerd R. Lang, the founder of Chronoswiss, developed a distinctive design language featuring old-school regulators, jumping hours, knurled bezels, large onion crowns and screwed lugs. In the hands of the Ebstein family since 2012, Chronoswiss has maintained the regulator and other traditional displays but injected new life into its collections with a bold mix of contemporary materials and colours. Venturing up the complications ladder, Chronoswiss presents two quarter repeater watches, the Q-Repeater Scream and the Q-Repeater Blue Note, with multi-level regulator dials and some surprising colours.
While the openworked architecture, materials and colours reflect the new face of Chronoswiss, the calibre is an archive movement produced exclusively for Chronoswiss in the 1990s that has been restored, refined and reborn in the brand’s Lucerne atelier. A bridge between the past and the present, the Q-Repeaters strike the hours and quarters on demand in titanium cases with skeletonised regulator-style dials.
The round, drum-shaped titanium case measures 42mm across and has a pronounced height of 16.2mm. Decorated with double bands of knurling, the case has a massive onion crown and a prominent pusher at 10 o’clock to activate the repeater. The top part of the lugs, bezel, crown and pusher are polished in contrast to the vertical satin-brushed case middle. A glassbox sapphire crystal over the dial amplifies the scenery, creating groovy distortions on the periphery.
The Q-Repeater Scream is the loudest of the pair with its deep, multi-level dial with CVD-coated openworked bridges in electric blue, orange and purple arching over the central green minutes ring and supporting the small seconds counter at 6 o’clock and the hours at noon. Two hand-guilloché bridges in electric blue and green add more colour to the dial, while the striking hammers can be seen at 1 o’clock. All the time indications are treated with Super-LumiNova – from the central minutes hand to the tip of the hour and seconds hands and the 5-minute markers on the peripheral track.
More conservative yet still contemporary, the Q-Repeater Blue Notes features navy blue CVD-coated skeletonised bridges and silver-coloured hours and seconds sub-dials. Like historical regulators, the minutes track takes precedence and is featured on the openworked galvanic blue peripheral track with 3D ceramic Super-LumiNova blocks shaped like lollipops at 5-minute intervals. The markers on the hour disc are also ceramic blocks of SLN. The two hand-guilloché bridges are blue to match the theme of the watch.
The restored Chronoswiss legacy calibre C.126 is an automatic with a repeater on two gongs. With a diameter of 28mm and 42 jewels, the frequency is 21,600vph and the power reserve is 35 hours. Fitted with a Glucydur balance wheel and a Nivarox balance spring, the movement features an openworked rotor decorated with Côtes de Genève.
Scream is fitted with a grey nubuck leather strap with an orange and purple Alcantara lining; the Blue Note with a blue calfskin strap with a light grey Alcantara lining. Each model is a limited edition of 25 pieces. They share a retail price of CHF 38,000 / EUR 42,500. More information at chronoswiss.com.
