Monopoussoir Chronograph
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This manual-winding masterpiece features a robust 42 mm titanium case that houses an elegant mechanism defined by a horizontal clutch and column wheel. The movement, inspired by marine chronometers, showcases hand-finished steel components and a large balance beating at 2.5 Hz through a peripheral glass design. Every detail, from the grained silver dials to the black polished and bevelled wheels, is finished by hand to achieve the highest possible level of artistry.
Specifications
Case
- Case size
- 42 mm
- Thickness
- 12.5 mm
- Case material
- Grade 5 titanium (also available in 18K gold)
- Crystal
- Peripheral glass
- Caseback
- Open, showing the chronometer balance
Dial
- Dial
- Silver, hand-grained and bevelled
Movement
- Movement
- Hand-wound mechanical
- Manufacture
- Single-pusher column-wheel chronograph with horizontal clutch, 2.5 Hz variable-inertia balance, hand-finished (bevelled wheels, black-polished steel)
- Beat rate
- 2.5 Hz
- Power reserve
- 45 h
- Complications
- Chronograph, Semi-instantaneous 45-minute counter
Strap
- Strap/bracelet
- Strap
- Strap material
- Bespoke black calfskin
Water
- Water resistance
- 30 m
About Sylvain Pinaud
Sylvain Pinaud is a French independent watchmaker who grew up at his father's bench, trained at the Morteau watchmaking school, and spent years in discreet ateliers and then major manufactures before setting up on his own in Sainte-Croix, high in the Jura. His is a complete workshop — lathes and milling machines beside century-old tools — where restorations of antique pieces sit next to innovative prototypes, and where components are cut and movements decorated in-house before assembly. The Monopoussoir Chronograph, a single-pusher column-wheel movement framed by a peripheral crystal, earned him the title Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France; the Origine that followed took the Horological Revelation prize at the 2022 GPHG. Everything is finished by hand — watchmaking, in his words, at the crossroads of art and science.