Chronodate by Angelus, the luxury Swiss watchmaker since 1891, launches the brand’s latest silver edition. “Magnetic Silver,” a tone-on-tone effect timepiece, features a harmonious blend between a titanium case, titanium bracelet or black rubber strap, and rhodium-plated hands with a dial surface that creates a technical monochrome impression.
This grey continues into black, revealing the movement container and then the carbon composite push-pieces. This black ensemble culminates in the two counters, one a 30-minute chronograph totalizer and the other with small seconds.
Chronodate is a fusion of two styles: Angelus, the historic brand and its Swiss watchmaking heritage, and Angelus, the technical, modern brand with a penchant for complications. The house presents the most striking version of this chronograph collection with this color combination.
Chronodate Titanium embodies the neo-retro approach of Angelus sports chronographs. It offers the highest standards of modernity and comfort with a multi-structured modular case.
The movement is housed in a container machined from a rigid yet lightweight carbon composite. The chronograph push-pieces, made from the same material, are applied directly to this case.
Around this container, Angelus has designed an open-worked cradle that unites the case middle and lugs in a single line. It also houses the bezel marked with twelve notches. This modular superstructure can accommodate one or more materials.
The energy emanating from its chamfered profile and the alternating straight and curved lines give the Chronodate collection a sporty feel. Finally, there is the bracelet, also in titanium: vintage in appearance, with its single, wide links, modern in construction, and very comfortable to wear.
Chronodate serves as a historical reminder of the brand’s origins. Angelus was a leading manufacturer of chronographs from the 1940s to the 1960s. These timepieces were small in diameter, in keeping with the taste of the time, and had particularly large and legible counters. It is only fitting that Angelus now presents a Chronodate with large, easy-to-read counters.
The 30-minute chronograph totalizer and the small seconds are adorned in metallic black with a snailed texture that adds to the modernity of the design. The dominant color, “Magnetic Silver”, is applied with a fine, matt sunray-brushed effect, set off by applied hour-markers and Arabic numerals with a 1940s aesthetic.
Angelus has fitted Chronodate Titanium with its chronograph movement, the A-500 caliber, which displays the small seconds at 9 o’clock and the 30-minute totalizer at 3 o’clock.
A pointer-type date display runs around the periphery of the dial. The caliber, oscillating at 4 Hz, is driven by a column wheel. Its self-winding system operates with an oscillating weight with a design taken from the brand’s archives: a capital letter “A” above a star, evoking a bell and its clapper. It alludes to the early days of Angelus, right at the heart of the mechanism.
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