Horological Meandering

Marcus Hanke
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The problem with day-date chronographs ...

... is the lacking variety of movements featuring this complication. Aside the discontinued Lémania 5100 and the Zenith 410, there is only the ETA/Valjoux 7550 left (and, of course, its full-calendar cousin, the 7751). Okay, there is also a full calendar variant of the Piguet 113x, equipping a Blancpain.

Many inexpensive 7750s keep the weekday display, but are often produced by private label producers, who offer an extensive cataglogue where the customers simply pick their options and add their logo onto the dial. That measn, if youhave seen one case, you probably have seen them all: tuna-can-style, building rather high. Of course, the material quality is good, but there is simply no uniqueness in style.

There was one other close candidate, the Longines Admiral. I really liked that, but there were two things putting me off: First, the oversized 12 numeral placed into the top hour counter, making it very distractive if you want to read that counter, second the shaped pushers, which simply have not the right angle. That means: on the Tissot, the pushers are shaped so that the finger is automatically pressing onto the the pin directly, while the shape of the Longines pushers results in the pressure to be offset a little. Consequently, the Longines pushers need much more pressure and delay, until the chronograph function reacts.

Regards,
Marcus