Description
Just ahead of Watches and Wonders 2026, Chronoswiss has added two new limited editions to its contemporary Pulse GMT line — and they could not be more different in spirit while sharing the exact same architecture. The Pulse GMT Enamel Sky Gold is a 50-piece grand-feu paillonne enamel showcase in 5N 18-carat red gold. The Pulse GMT Silver Guilloche is a 200-piece hand-guilloche in Grade 5 titanium. Both are fully hand-finished in the Chronoswiss atelier in Lucerne. Both use the manufacture calibre C.6002. Both give you the oversized onion crown, the coin-edge bezel, and the layered dial construction that Gerd-Rudiger Lang baked into Chronoswiss's DNA back in 1983 — now wrapped in a modern, integrated-bracelet case.
This is Chronoswiss doing what Chronoswiss does best: craft. The enamel Sky Gold leans all the way into metier d'art — multiple firings of translucent blue enamel over a hand-guilloched white-gold base plate, with tiny star-shaped gold paillons placed individually under magnification and sealed under a final coat of transparent enamel. The Silver Guilloche takes a different route: two different guilloche patterns cut directly into the dial metal on century-old straight-line engines, producing a surface that shifts with the light and earns its silver finish honestly.
Design
Both watches share a 41mm, 13mm-thick case built from 26 individual components with a double-domed, double anti-reflective sapphire crystal, a screw-down sapphire caseback, and a water resistance of 100 metres. The integrated bracelet is a first for the brand, and it's the piece that most clearly says 'this is a modern Chronoswiss, not a 1990s one.' The signature onion crown and coin-edge bezel are still there — non-negotiable house codes — but the proportions feel contemporary.
On the dial side, the layout is shared: central hours and minutes, a small seconds, a local 12-hour subdial at 3 o'clock, and a 24-hour GMT display at 9 o'clock. Polished blued-steel 'Pyramid' hands ride over the top.
The Enamel Sky Gold is the poetic one. The dial is built on a curved white-gold plate, guilloched by hand, then layered with translucent blue enamel fired at high temperature. Between layers, hand-cut gold paillons — tiny star-shaped flecks of fine gold — are placed one by one, then sealed beneath a final transparent enamel coat so they appear to float above the guilloche base. The effect is a miniature night sky on the wrist, which is exactly where the 'Sky' in the name comes from. Paired with the warm 5N red gold case, it reads as an object, not a tool.
The Silver Guilloche is the architectural one. The brass dial is coated in nickel galvanic silver and then engraved with two interacting guilloche patterns, with domed subdials and sunblasted rings catching light off the silver base in every direction. In Grade 5 titanium, on an integrated titanium bracelet, it is light on the wrist in a way the gold version is not — sculptural instead of ceremonial. Everyday-wearable metier d'art.
Specs
Pulse GMT Enamel Sky Gold
| Brand | Chronoswiss |
| Model | Pulse GMT Enamel Sky Gold |
| Reference | CH-4221REM-GRBL |
| Case Material | 5N 18-carat red gold, 26-piece construction |
| Diameter | 41 mm |
| Thickness | 13 mm |
| Water Resistance | 100 metres |
| Crystal | Curved double anti-reflective sapphire |
| Caseback | Screw-down sapphire |
| Dial | Hand-guilloche white-gold base, translucent blue paillonne enamel with hand-placed gold paillons |
| Hands | Polished blued-steel Pyramid |
| Movement | Chronoswiss manufacture calibre C.6002 (developed with La Joux-Perret), automatic |
| Frequency | 28,800 vph (4 Hz) |
| Power Reserve | 55 hours |
| Jewels | 29 |
| Functions | Hours, minutes, small seconds, local 12-hour at 3 o'clock, 24-hour GMT at 9 o'clock |
| Bracelet | Integrated 5N red gold |
| Limited Edition | 50 pieces |
| Price | CHF 79,000 / EUR 87,000 |
| Availability | Available now — Chronoswiss Atelier Lucerne and online boutique |
Pulse GMT Silver Guilloche
| Brand | Chronoswiss |
| Model | Pulse GMT Silver Guilloche |
| Reference | CH-4223TM-GR |
| Case Material | Grade 5 titanium, 26-piece construction |
| Diameter | 41 mm |
| Thickness | 13 mm |
| Water Resistance | 100 metres |
| Crystal | Curved double anti-reflective sapphire |
| Caseback | Screw-down sapphire |
| Dial | Brass base, nickel galvanic silver coating, two interacting hand-guilloche patterns, domed subdials |
| Hands | Polished blued-steel Pyramid |
| Movement | Chronoswiss manufacture calibre C.6002 (developed with La Joux-Perret), automatic |
| Frequency | 28,800 vph (4 Hz) |
| Power Reserve | 55 hours |
| Jewels | 29 |
| Functions | Hours, minutes, small seconds, local 12-hour at 3 o'clock, 24-hour GMT at 9 o'clock |
| Bracelet | Integrated Grade 5 titanium |
| Limited Edition | 200 pieces |
| Price | CHF 16,800 / EUR 18,500 |
| Availability | Available now — Chronoswiss Atelier Lucerne and online boutique |
What's Exciting
Chronoswiss is one of the few brands that still does everything on the dial side in-house — guilloche on original straight-line engines, grand-feu enamel, paillonne work — and charges an honest price for it. The Silver Guilloche is the one that matters on that second point: a hand-guilloche, integrated-bracelet titanium GMT from a manufacture with a calibre of its own, for CHF 16,800, is genuinely rare in 2026. You are not paying Patek money for Patek-technique work.
The Enamel Sky Gold is the flex. 50 pieces, paillonne enamel, red gold, and a case built from 26 components is not mass production — it is atelier output. It sits in a very exclusive club of modern metier d'art pieces that actually wear like travel watches, because under the sky-blue enamel is a proper manufacture GMT with a 55-hour power reserve. Both watches share the same C.6002 calibre developed with La Joux-Perret, which means the mechanical DNA is identical — what you are paying for is the dial, the metal, and the hours of handwork. That is the healthiest way to price a collection.
Sources
- Monochrome Watches — First Look: The new Chronoswiss Pulse GMT Series
- Fratello Watches — Hands-On With The New Chronoswiss Pulse GMT
- Oracle of Time — Chronoswiss Pulse GMT Silver Guilloche Review
- aBlogtoWatch — Chronoswiss Pulse GMT Watches
- Watchonista — Chronoswiss Presents Two New Travel Watches
History
Chronoswiss was founded in 1983 by Gerd-Rudiger Lang in Munich, at a time when the Swiss watch industry was still cleaning up after the quartz crisis. Lang's bet was simple and, in hindsight, vital: mechanical watchmaking was not dead, it was just under-loved. He is widely credited as a key figure in the mechanical chronograph revival of the 1980s — his early Chronoswiss Regulateur brought the regulator dial into contemporary watchmaking, and the brand's signature codes (the onion crown, the coin-edge bezel, the screwed-down fluted lugs, the guilloche dials) are his. In 2012, the brand was acquired by Oliver Ebstein and relocated to Lucerne, Switzerland, where it continues to operate as a true atelier — doing guilloche, enamel, and dial finishing in-house. The Pulse GMT line, launched in 2024, was the brand's first major integrated-bracelet modern release. These two 2026 editions extend that line into metier d'art territory while keeping the house codes intact.
Gallery
Images to be added — Enamel Sky Gold dial macro showing gold paillons, Silver Guilloche dial macro showing dual-pattern engraving, 5N red gold case profile, titanium integrated bracelet, onion crown detail, C.6002 caseback.
