Chronoswiss
| Chronoswiss AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat | Lucerne , Switzerland |
| management | Oliver Ebstein |
| Branch | Watch manufacturer |
| Website | www.chronoswiss.com |
Chronoswiss is a Swiss watch manufacturer based in Lucerne , which was founded in 1981 by Gerd-Rüdiger Lang in Munich and has been producing watches as Chronoswiss watch manufacturer since 1983 .
history
In the early days of Chronoswiss, remnants of mechanical watch movements by the manufacturer Enicar , which were no longer manufactured, were placed in watch cases and sold. Today's collection consists of mechanical watches and also includes limited editions. The onion crown , the knurled bezel and screwed bracelet bars are characteristic of the watches . A distinctive feature of Chronoswiss is a design that is based on models from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries .
Typical complications include the use of quarter-hour repeaters (model Repetition à quarts ) and the introduction of the first skeletonized automatic chronograph (model Opus ). The Classic Chronograph model was produced using original tools from the 1940s . The model Orea has a dial - enameling on. The Régulateur , introduced in 1987 and available from 1988, is one of the brand's best-known models , the first standard wristwatch with a regulator dial. Over the decades, this has become the brand's icon, which has been continuously developed. In 2016 Chronoswiss introduced the Flying Regulator, the first regulator model with a dial on several levels. In keeping with the focus on the Regulator line, the brand's slogan is "Regulate your time". Since then, a separate collection with ever new complications and functionalities has been built around the model icon Regulator.
Flying regulator
From December 2006 the company was based in Karlsfeld near Munich . Chronoswiss produced fewer than 5000 watches annually in 2012 (estimated). At the beginning of 2012, the previous owners, the Lang family, sold their shares in Chronoswiss Uhren GmbH to the Swiss entrepreneurial family Oliver and Eva Maria Ebstein, based in Lucerne on Lake Lucerne . In the meantime the company headquarters has been relocated to Lucerne. In August 2013 Chronoswiss announced that the Karlsfeld location would be completely abandoned. In the summer of 2014, the House of Chronoswiss opened its doors at the headquarters in Lucerne, where the production can be visited. Rare handicrafts such as guilloché and enamelling can also be experienced in the in-house dial manufacture.
literature
- Peter Braun: Chronoswiss special wristwatches: history, design, technology. With a large model overview . Heel, Königswinter 2002, ISBN 978-3-89880-101-0 .
- Peter Braun: Chronoswiss special wristwatches: history, development, production, technology . Heel, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-745-6 .
- Gerd-Rüdiger Lang: Time signals. The book with the tic . Chronopress 2003. (Can only be obtained from the website and from specialist dealers)
Web links
- Chronoswiss homepage
- Chronoswiss special prints as PDF files with further information on watches, innovations and people (3.40 MB)
- Chronoswiss company profile as a PDF file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Braun (Ed.), Wristwatches Catalog 2013, page 108, ISBN 978-3-86852-628-8 .
- ↑ watchtime.net: Gerd-Rüdiger Lang sells his life's work . Retrieved September 20, 2012.
- ↑ Online excerpt from the commercial register ( page no longer accessible , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 20, 2012.
- ↑ watchtime.net: Chronoswiss leaves Germany . Retrieved September 10, 2013.
