Chronotimer

Launched as the Chronotimer Series 1 in 2014, this is the first collection made entirely under Porsche Design's own control after decades in which the brand had relied on other manufactures to produce its watches — first Orfina, then IWC Schaffhausen during the golden years of their collaboration, and finally Eterna. It emerged from the newly opened Solothurn headquarters, established in that very period, and marked the brand's transition from a designer of watches made by third parties to an in-house producer.

In its aesthetic language, the Chronotimer explicitly recalls the 1972 Chronograph 1 and the executions made with IWC in the late 1970s: a titanium case with sandblasted finish and black PVD coating, a domed sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective treatment on the front, and a smoked sapphire case back — a direct continuation of the Bauhaus aesthetic that Ferdinand Alexander Porsche had wanted since the very first model.

The collection has been offered both with a sandblasted titanium bracelet with deployant clasp and with a leather strap, and over time it has been enriched with a flyback execution — able to reset and restart the chronograph with a single press — which in more recent years some brand sources also associate with the 1919 family, a sign of how much the two lines share the same technical and aesthetic foundation.