For the great sea of fine watches, some chose to achieve a higher rank, persuading technical advancement, making more complicated and accurate movements, but some staying focus on a niche market, serving a group of watch lover with a clear love. Chronoswiss is one of them.
Chronoswiss is one of the brands that watch lovers must heard about, but rarely seen in the public, or in anyone’s collection. She is not famous of making accurate watches but the craftmanship and decoration on the movement, especially skeleton structure. As a quite new watches manufacturer, Chronoswiss made a smart movement that purchased huge amount of movements from discontinued brands in the quartz crisis, such as Enicar. These enable Chronoswiss to stay different from most players in the market using ETA or Sellita movements. The brand are getting aggressive in the recent years, through their mastered technique in building module, they are making flying regulators, Tourbillion and many other variants
Chronoswiss Chronoscrope (ref: CH.1523) is one of their classical timepieces which many of the later models are based on. As a tribute to the early generation of chronograph, CH.1523 is built with a 60s chronograph module with single button control start, stop and reset function, powered by a 70s Enicar 165 movement. The dial and hands designed as a classical regulator, that is hands of hours, minutes and seconds are separated. The watches do have integrated some basic nowadays features like sapphire glasses on the front and case back.
Story behind the purchase?
It’s another lesson for me. Never buy things only because they are discounted. During staff sales of a reputable watch store, I received an invitation from my friends with brands like Chopard, Tag Heuer. Oris, Chronoswiss, Moser are getting a heavy discount, up to 60% off.
I wanted to try on Chronoswiss for long, but honestly Their RSRP is a bit off the track. I have picked 2 pieces, one moonphase chronograph and one Chronoscope. I had chosen the later one for its classical look and the movement.
But after 1 month of wear, I started to regret. It is well-built and robust, but one important thing, tribute to not equal to real vintage. With both cases made and the movement polished by modern machine, I got no feeling on her.
What I love?
1. Unique and rare in the street
2. Well built
3. Single-button chronograph is a real tribute to early generation of chronograph
4. A chance to own a rare and reliable movement
What I Complain?
1. No hacking
2. The 60 sec chronograph is quite meaningless
3. The decoration at the back of the movement can actually be much better for this price
4. Would be happier if they can offer enamel dial
5. No date
6. A hole below the 'second' hand look cool but looks invisible
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