Porsche Design taps into the brand’s racing legacy with the Monobloc Actuator collection of luxury timepieces designed to capture life by the millisecond.
Time measurement and motorsport are inherently linked, like a balance wheel and an escapement. As a reliable instrument for measuring time, a chronograph can accurately tally and document outstanding achievements, precise to mere fractions of a second.
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The new Monobloc Actuator Collection from Porsche Design, unveiled at Baselworld 2017, promises to maintain that relationship. In a collaboration between the watchmakers at Porsche Design Timepieces AG in Switzerland, the designers at Studio F. A. Porsche in Austria, and the engineers at Porsche Development Centre in Germany, the new Monobloc Actuator Collection takes its inspiration from the racing engine of the new Porsche 911 RSR: a paradigmatic example of precision and performance on the highest level.
The timepieces comprising the Monobloc Actuator line achieve the unprecedented feat of literally engineering the chronograph’s buttons seamlessly into the case of the watch. A multiply borne rocker switch alternately sets into motion and halts the chronograph mechanism of automatic Calibre ETA Valjoux 7754. Like the valves in the racing engine of the 911 RSR, this mechanism provides absolute precision, dependability, and continual, reliable protection against moisture penetration. This means the stopwatch function of this chronograph, which is pressure-resistant to ten bar, is operational underwater.
The Monobloc Actuator GMT-Chronotimer model versions offer the ideal companions at 24-hour races, or simply jetting across multiple time zones. Each version comes in a 45.5mm titanium case, the staple material for the brand since its innovation in 1980. The watches, available with a matte black or a deep blue sunburst-dial, come on a rubber strap, or an all-titanium bracelet, which utilizes a folding clasp with integrated fine-adjustment-mechanism to ensure a perfect fit.
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The Monoblanc Actuator 24H-Chronotimer features an innovative black titanium-carbide coating over its titanium case, a matte black dial, and a checkered-flag-design function indicator at “9 o’clock” – especially useful due to its optimal readability. This model is exclusively available on a rubber strap with deployment buckle.
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