Chronoswiss Releases Motorsports-Inspired Regulator Classic Carbon Racer
Regulator dial timepieces are a rare breed, ostensibly designed for maximum readability of the minutes at a glance but often acting as a display of a brand's movement-making prowess. Few companies have embraced the style as thoroughly or as expertly as Chronoswiss, which, since 1988, has built the core of its brand ethos around the unusual style. For its latest iteration on the theme, Chronoswiss has taken the classic regulator style to the track for the Regulator Classic Carbon Racer.The 41 millimeter stainless steel case of the Regulator Classic Carbon Racer is pure classic Chronoswiss, with its elegantly simple lines, knurled case sides, oversized onion crown, and distinctive narrow lugs with a dramatic downward curve. This continuity helps to preserve the brand's distinctive DNA while other elements of the design experiment with drastically new styles. Around back, a screw-down caseback with a sapphire display window offers a glimpse into the manufacture caliber C.295 movement, whi
50 Years of Titanium Innovation: A Brief History of Citizen's Super Titanium and a Q&A With Citizen's Lead Engineer, Mr. Seiichi Hiroe
Sponsored post presented on best watches by advertiserWhile strolling the pastoral English countryside of Cornwall in 1791, the amateur geologist Reverend William Gregor happened upon black, magnetic sand that he christened with the innocuous name mannacan to honor his small parish. Little did he know that in two short centuries, the metal in those sands - later renamed titanium in homage to the Greek deities sired by Uranus and Gaea, a title certainly more befitting its stature - would become instrumental for creating everything from artificial joints to military aircraft to parts for NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover. Citizen was the first watch brand to see the potential in titanium, creating the world's first titanium watch in 1970, the Citizen X-8 Chronometer. But that was just the start; over the past 50 years, Citizen has been at the forefront of innovation in using titanium in watchmaking.As a metal, titanium has a number of properties that make it ideally suited for a wide range of