Angelus adds a tachymeter to its vintage-inspired monopusher chronograph
Angelus has just launched the Chronographe Tachymètre, a trio of compact monopusher watches that follows last year's Chronographe Télémètre. Same case, same hand-wound calibre, but the telemeter scale is swapped for a tachymeter that measures speed. It is a small change on paper, yet it suits a chronograph so naturally that I can see why they did it.
The brand itself goes back to Le Locle in 1891 and was known for repeaters, alarms and chronographs. Today's La Fabrique collection takes watches from the 1930s to the 1950s as a starting point and rebuilds them with modern materials. The case is 37 mm across and 9.25 mm thick, with a curved caseband and lugs that sweep down and twist at the sides, which gives it that unmistakable vintage profile. The single pusher sits inside the fluted crown at 3 o'clock and handles start, stop and reset.
Inside is the hand-wound A5000, made by sister company La Joux-Perret. Its roots go back to the THA movement of the late 1980s, later known as the Cartier 045MC used in the 1999 Tortue Monopoussoir. It has a column wheel and horizontal clutch, beats at 21,600 vibrations per hour and gives 42 hours of power reserve, finished with Geneva stripes, circular graining and polished screws.
There are three dial options: a gold one with details the brand calls British racing green, plus two steel versions in coral pink with steel grey, or pearl grey with petrol-blue subdials. The tachymeter scale starts at 500 km/h on a base of 1,000. The gold edition is limited to 15 pieces, the steel ones to 30 and 50, at CHF 34,600 and CHF 18,500 respectively.
What I like here is that the brand is not copying an old watch line for line but treating its archive as a creative foundation. Whether a monopusher at this price is for you is another question, but as a study in how to revive vintage design with a proper movement, it is interesting.
Source: Monochrome Watches
The brand itself goes back to Le Locle in 1891 and was known for repeaters, alarms and chronographs. Today's La Fabrique collection takes watches from the 1930s to the 1950s as a starting point and rebuilds them with modern materials. The case is 37 mm across and 9.25 mm thick, with a curved caseband and lugs that sweep down and twist at the sides, which gives it that unmistakable vintage profile. The single pusher sits inside the fluted crown at 3 o'clock and handles start, stop and reset.
Inside is the hand-wound A5000, made by sister company La Joux-Perret. Its roots go back to the THA movement of the late 1980s, later known as the Cartier 045MC used in the 1999 Tortue Monopoussoir. It has a column wheel and horizontal clutch, beats at 21,600 vibrations per hour and gives 42 hours of power reserve, finished with Geneva stripes, circular graining and polished screws.
There are three dial options: a gold one with details the brand calls British racing green, plus two steel versions in coral pink with steel grey, or pearl grey with petrol-blue subdials. The tachymeter scale starts at 500 km/h on a base of 1,000. The gold edition is limited to 15 pieces, the steel ones to 30 and 50, at CHF 34,600 and CHF 18,500 respectively.
What I like here is that the brand is not copying an old watch line for line but treating its archive as a creative foundation. Whether a monopusher at this price is for you is another question, but as a study in how to revive vintage design with a proper movement, it is interesting.
Source: Monochrome Watches
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