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About Chronoswiss Watches

Shortly after the devastating impact of the quartz crisis, many watchmakers either lost their jobs as their companies reduced their workforce to cut costs, or completely folded up shop. This wasn’t the case for Gerd-Rüdiger Lang who founded prestigious watch manufacturer, Chronoswiss. He instead turned his attention to creating semi custom watches which subsequently led to the first ever Chronoswiss watch in 1982. It wasn’t until a year later, however, that the brand officially launched under its name. Lang has a special affinity with the chronograph, hence where the company’s name derives from. His movements, he believed, should be put on show, thus Chronoswiss movements are often displayed behind a sapphire backed case.

The first Chronoswiss watch was a mechanical chronograph with a moon phase indicator which went on to pave the way for many an exceptional timepiece created by Chronoswiss thereafter. Between 1988 and 1990 its first regulator display was created separating the minutes, the seconds and the hours, as well as the archetypal Chronoswiss case recognised for its fluted bezel, a patented screw in solution that connected the strap to the lugs and an onion shaped crown. Between the years 1991 and 1994 the Kairos Chronograph was launched with an off centre hour and minute display, as well as the reversible rectangular Cabrio. The skilled craftsmen and artisans working at Chronoswiss’ house of manufacture also mastered and revived the art of the hand enamelled dial, which gave a sense of depth and detail to its watches to come.

Next came the Chronoswiss Opus boasting a skeletonised dial along with the world’s first skeletonised, self-winding, split-seconds chronograph called the patented Chronoswiss Pathos. Further refinancing its development of the tourbillon was the Régulateur à Tourbillon between 1995 and 2000, equipped with a minute repeater. Chronoswiss later won the “Watch of the Year 2003” awarded by Armbanduhren magazine for the Chronoscope, and created a 200 limited edition hand engraved tourbillon regulator watch called the Régulateur à Tourbillon Squelette.

Chronoswiss launched a perpetual calendar at Baselworld between the years 2005 and 2012, later going on to create the Régulateur 24, Kairos Lady, Grand Lunar Chronograph and Opus watches. Although Chronoswiss is no longer run by the Lang family, it has retained its Swiss roots having recently been taken over by the Ebstein family. When the company reached its 30th anniversary it launched the Régulateur 30, a collection instantly recognisable for its guilloche textured dials. The company has also created a new headquarters and atelier in Lucerne, which also opened its doors to the public for the first time, granting them an insight into the meticulous craftsmanship of each beautifully crafted Chronoswiss. Here, dial-crafting artisans showcase their hand guilloche techniques and display the skill behind their delicate enamelling processes to 21st century watch collectors and aficionados.

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