Nina Scally Chronoswiss introduces natural stone dials to its Small Seconds collection for the first time, pairing German Jasper and Swiss Serpentine to celebrate both the brand’s origins and its home in Lucerne.
Every dial is cut from a unique piece of natural stone, ensuring no two watches are identical, while production is limited to just 50 pieces of each reference.
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Housed in a 40mm case and powered by the in-house Chronoswiss Calibre C.6000 with a 55-hour power reserve, the collection combines the brand’s signature small seconds display with contemporary mechanical finishing.
Stone dials have been shoved under our nose for a while now.
So it can be refreshing when a brand comes along with a new take and a genuine story behind why the stone has been used, enter Chronoswiss and its new Small Seconds Jasper and Serpentine.
If you’ve been closely following Chronoswiss’ trajectory over the last few years, you’ll likely know that the Small Second collection serves as the purest distillation of the brand’s current design language, especially when compared to its more complex jumping hour complications.
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Crafting dials from natural stone is hardly a novel idea in horology, yet even in an era of hyper-advanced material science, working with raw minerals remains one of the most fraught endeavours a manufacture can undertake because of the significant failure rate when slicing these dense minerals to wafer-thin tolerances.
In a departure from its off-centred regulator dials, Chronoswiss recently introduced the Small Second, a simpler timekeeper with central hour and minute hands.
Uniting the two-nation history of the brand, the Small Second Jasper pays tribute to Chronoswiss’ origins with an eye-catching natural jasper stone dial from Germany, while the Small Second Serpentine references the brand’s new location with a Swiss-sourced serpentine stone dial.
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