Looking for a watch to pair with your sports car? Well, you can’t do much better than a Porsche Design timepiece.
Conceived of by none other than Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche — the creator of the legendary 911 — the original Porsche Design Chronograph from Orfina has since become a horological icon. And though that watch was recently reissued as the Chronograph 1, there are other, more contemporary timepieces within the Porsche Design catalog that are equally worthy of your attention.
Take this Porsche Design Chronotimer, for example: a handsome, thoroughly modern, automatic chronograph, it’s the sort of watch that begs to be paired with a fast sports car — particularly with a 911. Housed in a 42mm black ceramic case with a sapphire crystal, a signed ceramic crown, ‘piston’ pushers, and a smooth, black tachymeter bezel with white printing, it features a luminous, gloss black dial with recessed sub-registers, an outer, printed white minute scale, applied hour indices, a lumed ‘sword’ handset, and a date window at 4:30.
Powered by the automatic Porsche Design Calibre WERK 01.100 based on the ETA 7750 — which is visible via a sapphire exhibition caseback — it comes paired to a signed, black leather strap with a black ceramic pin buckle. It even includes its factory goodies.
If you feel the need for speed — and you want to couple that need with an excellent, under-the-radar timepiece stemming from one of the most famous automotive families in the world — then this chronograph is calling your name!