FROM THE EDITORS Letters + Events
The new Carl F. Bucherer
Manero Tourbillon
Double Peripheral.
REGULATORS & ATELIERS
o you enjoy gazing at a sophisticated movement as it powers
your beautifully engineered mechanical timepiece? Do you prefer
watches with clear sapphire casebacks for just this purpose?
If so, you can thank Chronoswiss founder Gerd-Rudiger Lang. It was Lang,
the German watchmaker who started Chronoswiss thirty-five years ago, who
popularized this practice, now taken for granted by most collectors.
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AS WE DETAIL IN THIS MONTH’S COVER STORY about Chronoswiss, Herr Lang also brought the
regulator to the wrist.
Before Lang prompted his company to serialize the regulator dial for the wrist, the regulator clock
or pocket watch, with its long minute hand separate from the hour and seconds hands, was more a tool
for the atelier. There, watchmakers used it to help set their newest timepieces. Regulators set into highly
accurate long-cased clocks were (and still are) also found in the parlors of elegant residences.
New Chronoswiss CEO Oliver Ebstein continues to advance the firm’s historical focus on the regulator
dial. As Chronoswiss celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary in 2018, it debuts no less than five new
Chronoswiss regulator models, in part to also underscore the thirtieth year of the firm’s first regulator.
Find out more starting on page 52 inside this issue.
Also inside this summer issue we’ve lined up in-depth stories on newer watchmakers. Ken Nichols
tries on the latest dive watch from Kansas City-based Monta (page 34) and we look at how Akrivia
Atelier founder Rexhep Rexhepi is attempting to reinvent the 1940s officer’s watch with his astounding
10 | INTERNATIONAL WATCH | SUMMER 2018
Chronometre Contemporain (page 118).
And we don’t stop there. Contributor James
Henderson details his visit to the headquarters of
young Japanese brand Minase (page110), John Charles
Reid visits Jaeger-LeCoultre (page 60) and friend of iW
James Lamdin – Mr. Analog/Shift – tell us how much he
enjoyed racing the new Ferrari GTC4Lusso on the ice of
northern Quebec (page114).
If all this isn’t enough summertime horological (and
automotive) excitement, we’ve also detailed many of
our favorite new watches, as seen at Baselworld 2018,
starting on page 73.
Enjoy, and we’ll see you in print again this fall, and
every day online.
Regards ,
Michael Thompson
Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]