Wempe, the family-owned retail big based in 1878 in Hamburg, has change into one of many greatest names in luxurious watch gross sales. Now within the arms of a fourth-generation Wempe, the retailer has 29 showrooms worldwide and produces particular editions with main German watchmakers. Designed along with Wempe, the most recent 100-piece restricted version, which celebrates Wempe’s 100-year partnership with Junghans, is a recent tackle the Meister Chronoscope with a beautiful gentle blue dial.
Junghans is a good German model and, at one level in its historical past (1903), was the biggest producer of clocks on the planet. Happy with its strong and nearly uninterrupted historical past since 1861, Junghans performs the Bauhaus design card with nice credibility. The elegant, vintage-flavoured Chronoscope, which takes its design cues from a 1936 chronograph, is considerably laborious to pigeonhole. Ostensibly a chronograph, its elegant, dressier manner elevates it to a different degree.
Seen from the aspect, you may recognize the pie-pan structure of the 40.7mm polished stainless-steel case with a smaller base increasing to the broader opening for the dial with an nearly non-existent bezel. The 13.9mm thickness is absorbed by the intelligent case development, leading to a a lot slimmer-looking watch. The dial, which is normally protected by vintage-style plexiglass, comes with a convex anti-reflective sapphire crystal.
Showing with totally different dial colors, and even a extra strong, sportier ‘S’ model, the Wempe Chronoscope options an on-trend gentle blue dial. The domed dial options the signature recessed and bowl-like sub-dials for the chronograph at 12 and 6 o’clock with blue interiors and darkish blue arms, accompanied by a smaller seconds sub-dial at 9 o’clock. Marking a primary, the identify Wempe is printed beneath the double-framed day-date aperture at 3 o’clock.
The soothing gentle blue dial doesn’t play with contrasting colors, and the calendar and date discs characteristic the identical shade of blue for a harmonious impact. A pleasant element is how the elongated rhodium-plated indices and the tip of the minutes hand are bent to comply with the curvature of the dial.
The Chronoscope is powered by the calibre J880.1 (base calibre Sellita SW500), with an influence reserve of 48 hours. Finishings embrace rhodium-plated parts, perlage on the bottom plates, Côtes de Genève stripes on the rotor and canopy plate, and blued screws, all showcased by means of the mineral crystal caseback secured by 5 screws.
The watch is paired with a midnight blue alligator strap and a chrome steel folding clasp. It’s restricted to 100 items and out there worldwide from 7 Might 2025 in all Wempe showrooms with a Junghans concession for EUR 2,590. Extra info at wempe.com.
