Forget navy blue. Midnight blue, celestial blue, petrol blue and royal blue. Welcome to electric blue. Chronoswiss puts fingers in the plug and electrifies its new Open Gear regulator. A high voltage limited edition....
Maik Panziera, Design Director at Chronoswiss, has vivid childhood memories. Among them: those of a father with golden hands, who repaired everything, all by himself. A "self-made man" of DIY, with sometimes unorthodox but effective methods. Man did not learn from books, but from experience. So it was with electricity. What better way to see if current is flowing into a plug...than to plunge a screwdriver into it?
“It was not very orthodox but it was his way of doing things. I grew up in the sound and light of the flashes and electric arcs with which my father regularly illuminated our house, ”smiles Maik Panziera today.
“Electric Blue”: the name was perfect for the new Open Gear ReSec from Chronoswiss. A piece that is also not very conventional, rather cheeky, off the beaten track. Like Chronoswiss. Like its customers.
For its “Electric Blue”, Chronoswiss has developed a new guilloché. It starts from the center of the room and irradiates the unique architecture of the regulator with an electric blue ray: hour at noon, central minutes, small Retrograde Seconds at 6 o'clock – hence its name, ReSec. From each of these functions we can see a few discreet wheels, an “Open Gear” architecture dear to Chronoswiss.
Entirely blue, case, bracelet and dial, the Electric Blue will only be produced in 50 pieces. As ephemeral as an electric arc, intense as a current, it offers a very trendy vision of Haute Horlogerie in a diameter of 44 mm – for those who are not afraid to free themselves from codes and conventions, nor from forge their own watchmaking path.
Technical Data
Model: Open Gear ReSec Electric Blue
Reference: CH-6926-BLSI
Displays |
Off-centre hours at 12:00, central minutes, retrograde seconds at 6:00 |
Case |
Solid 17-piece, stainless steel case with blue CVD coating, with satin finish and polished, bezel with partial knurling and curved, double coated anti-reflective sapphire crystal, screw-down case back with satin finish and sapphire crystal, onion crown, water resistance up to 10 bar, strap holders screwed down with patented Autobloc system |
Measurements |
Ø 44 mm, height 13.35 mm |
Movement |
Chronoswiss caliber C. 301, automatic, with stop seconds |
Diameter |
Ø 36.50 mm, impulse-angle 51° |
Jewels |
33 |
Balance |
Glucydur, three-legged |
Balance spring |
Nivarox 1 |
Fine Adjustment |
Via Excenter |
Shock protection |
Incabloc |
Frequency |
4 Hz., 28‘800 A/h (semi-oscillations) |
Power reserve |
Approx. 42 hours |
Special features |
Skeletonized blue rotor with Cote de Geneve and ball bearing; polished pallet lever, escape wheel and screws; bridges and plates with perlage |
Dial |
Elaborate 42-part construction on two levels: bottom level hand- guillochéd, upper level featuring screwed-on skeletonized train wheel bridges and funnel-like construction for hour display, as well as a retrograde seconds display and cylinder shape Super-LumiNova indexes |
Hands |
“Trigono” shape; with Super-LumiNova inlays and tips |
Strap |
Hornback crocodile leather, hand-sewn |