Model History
DC designates Damasko's chronograph family, built around heavily modified and internally reinforced Valjoux/ETA 7750 base movements. The DC56 is its most representative model: a chronograph with deliberately understated aesthetics — matte black dial, high-contrast white indices, three counters in standard configuration — that embodies the brand's philosophy, summed up in the formula "simple, direct, legible", behind which lies engineering that is anything but ordinary.
The moment that cemented the DC56's place in the brand's history dates back to 2007, when Airbus/EADS subjected it, alongside other competing chronographs, to extreme tests designed to simulate fighter cockpit conditions, including accelerations of up to 12 g. The DC56 was among the few to survive trials that disabled most of the other watches tested, thereby earning official adoption as onboard instrumentation for German Eurofighter test pilots — an episode that has accompanied the model's narrative ever since.
In the "Si" variant, the DC56 is fitted with an upgraded movement featuring a reinforced barrel for an extended 52-hour power reserve, a ceramic rotor and bearing for better resistance to shocks and vibrations, and the EPS® polycrystalline silicon hairspring developed in-house by Damasko since 2008: a non-magnetic, temperature-compensated hairspring that further improves accuracy and reliability over the base version.
Technical Specifications
Main Executions
In the 2007 Airbus/EADS tests, the DC56 was not simply passed: according to specialist retailers, most of the other chronographs compared in those extreme trials failed to withstand the stresses, while the watch from Barbing came out the other end still working perfectly — an anecdote the brand, despite remaining a small family business, still cites today as field proof of its engineering philosophy.