CROTON WATCH CHRONOMASTER MANUAL

Two have a slightly updated look and black dials. The most iconic is the black Chronomaster with broad arrow hands.

CROTON WATCH CHRONOMASTER MANUAL

Whatever you want a manual wind or an automatic watch, you can choose between four different versions of the Chronomaster, all based on actual vintage models. See, over the year, Nivada Grenchen offered various versions of the Chronomaster to the potential buyers. Vintage Chronomaster models were manual-windings, so having this option in the collection is a great touch. When it comes to the Chronomaster, you can choose between automatic or manual wind watches. Perhaps we might have the chance to take a closer look at them at a later stage. Other than the aforementioned Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver, Nivada resurrected another iconic, albeit lesser-known model, the Antarctic. The new Nivada Grenchen line up consists of two model lines and various timepieces within each of those lines. By that point, I’d seen so many shots and videos of this watch that my only question was, “Does it really look that close to the original vintage Nivada Grenchen?”Īnd, I’m happy to say, the answer is, yes! True to his word, a FedEx parcel landed on my desk a few weeks ago. Guillaume reached out and promised me a watch when the prototypes were ready. However, whether the watch can live up to my expectations or not, I’m not so sure. It seems that the designers did an excellent job with these new Nivada Chronomaster timepieces. I’m familiar with the look of the vintage models as well, and it’s a striking resemblance. I’ve seen the prototypes on social media many times. And now we’re up-to-date.Īs soon as the project came out, I caught wind of it. They discovered that a Mexican company owned the Nivada brand, and so the Montrichard Group acquired the necessary rights from it. 1985, and Remi Chabrat, the CEO of Montrichard Group, drew up a plan to resurrect the iconic Grenchen-based watch brand. Nivada managed to linger for a few years before finally ceasing production around the dawn of the 1980s.Ī few years ago, Guillaume Laidet, who many of you might know by his earlier venture William L. The devastation wreaked by inexpensive quartz watches on the market came in the 1970s. It’s a story that is very similar to many other brands’ that disappeared during the quartz crisis. The history of Nivada Grenchen is very well documented, so I do not want to get into the details. That was until 2020 rolled around, and the Nivada Grenchen Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver became one of the most anticipated new releases of the year… Nivada Grenchen See, the brand was not in production for many years. What I think, though, is that if you have all the money in the world and a huge watch group behind you, perhaps you should make a bit more effort to come up with new stuff every once in a while. I find them exciting and have reviewed a good few of them in the past. Now, let me be clear: I’m not against reeditions. However, this is certainly not the case when it comes to the new Nivada Grenchen Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver. Oddly, these neo-vintage watches are often just weak copies of the original vintage watches they are based on. They spend more time going through their archives and recreating old models rather than focusing on research and development. Certain brands seem to be oblivious to the year we live in. We are living in a world where reeditions, heritage-inspired, and neo-vintage watches are becoming the norm.

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