Watch x Chapal Chronographe 1972

Here is our first mechanical manual-winding chronograph*, produced in 2 x 100 numbered pieces. Essentially sporty, it adds the display of timed intervals to the current time reading. To create and develop it, we collaborated with the prestigious Chapal manufacture, whose history is closely linked to aviation and automotive.

Kelton is also very much involved in motorsport. Emerson Fittipaldi, a two-time Formula 1 world champion in 1972 and 1974 and sponsored by Timex, visited the workshops in Besançon in 1975. The name of this watch (1972) is a nod to Emerson's achievements.

Since 1832, the Chapal manufacture has been part of the adventures of aviation and motor racing through its collections of custom leather clothing; as such, it makes sense that it produces - in its workshops in Crocq (Creuse) - the leather strap that equips our chronograph.

The beating heart of this chrono is a Seagull St 1901 calibre. The beautiful stories of watches and movements usually begin in Switzerland, thus the ancestor of the calibre powering our chronograph was born in Moutier, at the Venus SA movement factory, which filed a first patent for a chronograph system in 1933.

• Between lugs: 20 mm
• Height lug to lug: 48 mm
• Thickness: 13 mm
• Case diameter: 40 mm
• Case: Satin-finished 316 L stainless steel
• Glass: Sapphire
• Water resistance: 10 ATM
• Total weight: 95 g
• Movement type: Mechanical
• Movement: Seagull ST 1901
• Feature: Super-LumiNova (hour and minute hands)

Strap

• Material: Vegetable-tanned box leather, hot stamped: Chapal Paris
• Buckle type: Brass button clasp