Just in time for the height of summer, Chronoswiss is offering watch lovers a literally refreshing surprise in the form of the Delphis Sub Zero. The special edition, limited to 50 pieces, impresses with its 42mm stainless steel case, blued using the PVD process and knurled on the sides. The intense color scheme is also reflected by the crown – in typical Chronoswiss onion shape -, the rubber strap, the skeletonized minute hand and the sub-dial for the small seconds.
The complex case, which is pressure-tested to ten bar, frames an equally fascinating dial that is artfully guilloched by hand in the Swiss brand’s Lucerne workshop using old rose-engine machines. The filigree pattern, which creates an almost hypnotizing play of light, serves as a stage for two literally dynamic complications: the jumping hour in a window at twelve and the retrograde minute, where the hand runs over a circular segment and jumps back to its starting point as soon as the hour is full. Chronoswiss founder Gerd-Rüdiger Lang (1943 – 2003) brought this varied combination to the wrist in the 1990s.
This pioneer of the mechanical renaissance in Germany was also a strong advocate of showing the fascinating microcosm of the movement through a sapphire crystal case back from the very beginning. In the Delphis Sub Zero, the automatic manufacture caliber C.6004 is on display in all its beauty. It offers a power reserve of 55 hours and is characterized by a ball-bearing, partially skeletonized rotor made of tungsten, ruthenium-coated bridges decorated with Côtes de Genève.
The Delphis Sub Zero retails for CHF 16,800 – approximately $19,000 when converted to USD – and can be preordered on the brand’s website.
To learn more, visit Chronoswiss, here.