Round-UpSublime Beauty: Presenting Top-Five Chronoswiss Watches With Alluring Guilloche Dials
Traditional and artistic crafts hold immense importance in the haute horlogerie industry… Just like some outstanding timepieces from Chronoswiss, which showcase exquisite guilloche dials. We bring you our top picks
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Established in 1983, Chronoswiss are a fairly young brand and are a proponent of traditional fine watchmaking, evident in their design ethos and craftsmanship. The company calls itself a ‘modern mechanical’ watch brand, which believes in the ‘symbiosis of horological know-how, non-conformist designs, modern materials, and classical artisanal mastery’. Their watches can be easily recognised, thanks to their prominent design features: a fluted bezel, onion crown, three-dimensional display, and guilloche and enamel dials. The brand is vehemently opposed to mass-produced items and believe in quality over quantity—evident in their artistic watches, created specifically at their atelier in Lucerne, where they have mastered the art of skeltonisation, enamelling, and guilloche. These age-old artistic techniques require years of training and employ only the best skilled watchmakers, resulting in some of the most outstanding creations. Here’s a look at some exquisite offerings from Chronoswiss that showcase magnificent guilloche dials.
Chronoswiss Flying Regulator Open Gear Purple Panther
This watch features a combination of contemporary materials and strong colours on a three-dimensional, handmade in-house guilloche dial and is limited to 50 pieces only. It comes in a bold, black 41mm DLC-coated case with a purple dial. The pattern used here has been created using a century-old rose machine, which creates vivid reflections, almost reflecting waves on a still lake when one throws a stone. The multilevel regulator construction of 42 parts allows unhindered views of the mechanics along with the automatic movement C.299 with its skeletonised rotor that is also coated in purple.
Chronoswiss Open Gear ReSec Tiger
This stunning watch features a vibrant orange dial with a hypnotic new guilloche pattern, which captures the essence of the majestic tiger’s fur. The dramatic orange hue on the dial is actually part of the Chronoswiss C.301 movement, as it creates a mesmerizing pattern on the watch face. The guilloche pattern is crafted on a rose engine turning machine from 1924. It is numbered to 50 pieces only and celebrates the beauty of nature, as it combines outstanding design with the classic characteristics of the brand, such as the regulator set-up, the knurled bezel, and the onion crown.
Chronoswiss Delphis Venture
This futuristic timepiece from Chronoswiss showcases a fine balance between classic craftsmanship and avant-garde design. Crafted in a 42mm stainless-steel case, it is a testament to impeccable guilloche artistry. It features a darker guilloche area on its dial, almost like haphazard wave-like pattern, made of lightning bolts. The small seconds counter at six o’clock is also decorated with a blue guilloche is a circular, radial pattern. It is powered by the automatic Chronoswiss movement, calibre C. 6004 with a 55-hour power reserve.
Chronoswiss Space Timer Moonwalk
This timekeeper is one of the most complex creations from the brand and gives the impression of the vastness of the inter-galactic realm. It features a three-dimensional dial with black guilloche and also features a titanium moon illuminated with Sumer-LumiNova. It has a 63-part construction with a galvanic meteor coating at its base. Screwed onto the dial are skeletonised blued bridges, and above this, at 12 o’clock, is a translucent hours sub-dial made from polished and sandblasted ITR2 (or Innovative Technical Revolutionary Resin).
Chronoswiss Open Gear Flying Regulator
This electrifying timepiece features a radiating guilloche pattern, which kind of emulates a sunray pattern, where the waves seem to branch out from the centre. Blue CVD (chemical vapour deposition) treatment coats the 41mm case of the Open Gear Flying Regulator Blue Spark, featuring the brand’s signature knurled bezel, oversized onion crown, and straight lugs. Limited to only 50 pieces worldwide, the stunning hand-guilloche pattern is offset by blued accents for the funnel-shaped sub-dials housing the off-centred hours and seconds. Tipped with a contrasting red are the central minutes hand and the curved seconds hand at the six o’clock counter.