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Here at aBlogtoWatch, we have covered our fair share of chronograph watches, and oftentimes they can be bunched into the “sportier” side of life. This isn’t to say that there aren’t chronographs out there that can be seen as dressy; in fact, with so many brands evolving their lines to include new materials and classier touches, the range of options have grown vastly to broaden the role that a chronograph can serve.

Whether it be a cleaner, uncluttered dial or a gold case, a chronograph can be just as much at home in a suit as it can with jeans and a t-shirt. Foregoing any loud color choices, styling, and general “sportiness,” these dressy chronographs are subtle without coming off stuffy or too formal – classy with something of an edge, you could say. The goal when looking for one is to find what works best for you, and we have compiled a list that should serve as a great “starting point” to your personal collection. With these things in mind, let’s take a look at just a few of your options.

Bulgari Octo Velocissimo Ultranero Chronograph

With its octagonal case, dressed up to shine thanks to a total of over 100 facets, polished and applied indices and a deep black dial, this Bulgari Octo Velocissimo strikes a rare balance between masculine, sporty design, and powerful restraint. Bulgari offers several variants in the Octo collection, so you can go from this all steel version all the way to the even more serious-looking version with a combination of a black DLC case and an 18k gold bezel, hands and indices.

It is not easy to successfully mix timeless, elegant design with unique treats. Thanks to this powerful mixture of curves and hard angles, shining bright and brushed surfaces, and a relatively small 41mm wide case, the Bulgari Octo Velocissimo does manage to tick a lot of boxes. The movement is a Zenith El Primero-based BVL328 that is stunning to view through the sapphire crystal back. Pricing starts $9,900 for the steel cased version on the black leather strap.

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph

Blancpain continues to be a strong provider of unique and intriguing movements in what often feels like a sea of mechanical genericism, even in the luxury watch market. Look closely and you’ll find in Blancpain watches really innovative efforts that are creating new assortments of present ideas, as well as some novel ones. Now, I’d like to look at the Blancpain Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT watch that we first covered here. It’s upgraded for 2016 based on a motion which launched in 2011. In its heart, this view is about supplying a unique design for two complication sets that you don’t often find together. That is a subsidiary GMT hand to indicate another time zone, as well as an annual calendar complication. The latter is rather elegantly laid out with the calendar data being signaled via three different windows on the dial. Underneath is a series of three discs that overlap. What’s interesting is that despite the quantity of information about the dial (period, next 24-hour time zone, date, day, and month) that the surface of the Blancpain Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT is comparatively sparse and clean.Lovers of only symmetrical dials will probably find the eccentric layout on the Blancpain Quantieme Annuel GMT dial bothersome, and people who like a little bit of asymmetry in their watches will probably love the look in addition to the pristine legibility. This steel version of the Blancpain Quaniteme Annuel GMT is the cleanest looking of the sequence. The 18k red gold variant has a “sunburst grey” dial, whereas the 18k white gold model has the most intricate-looking dial that is “stamped flinque opaline.”

It would be hard to make a list like this without including the A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph. One of Germany’s finest watchmakers, Lange has never really been about large watches – and we have all forgotten about that experimental Lange 31 that was 46mm wide, right? The 1815, with its sleek white gold case, thin lugs and discreet, rectangular pushers is as classic in its look as they get. Chronographs of today do tend to be too bulky for the sake of being bulky, but at 39.5mm, this watch is ideally sized to suit its reserved wrist-presence.

Powered by the exquisite Caliber L951.5, the 1815 has a healthy power reserve of 60 hours. This particular A Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph Boutique Edition is professional-looking even with the added pulsometer on the flange ring and, with a dark-blue leather strap, should have no trouble to be matched to whatever you put on for your suit-up day. It won’t be on every other wrist either with a price of 49,000 Euros.

Cartier Rotonde Chronograph

Dressy elegance and Cartier are a match made in heaven. With this Rotonde de Cartier Chronograph (Reference CRWSRO0002), Cartier succeeded in designing a timepiece that truly embodies the exquisite finishing and classic styling the brand is known for. Some could argue that the dial is a bit busy, and though it might be, the large hands and trademark Cartier Roman numerals all make for above-average-legibility.

The stainless steel case is pictured here, but Cartier also offers the Rotonde in 18k white or pink gold – and even with the steel you, of course, also get the added touch of the blue spinel cabochon. . Consider this piece is powered by the in-house caliber 1904-CH MC and you have not only a beautiful watch, but also the added bragging rights of a proprietary movement. Priced at $9,050, the Rotonde de Cartier Chronograph is a true classic – albeit arguably not one with the most competitive price.

Vacheron Constantin Historique Cornes De Vache 1955 Chronograph

The Vacheron Constantin Historiques Cornes De Vache 1955 revives vintage chronograph vibes like hardly anything else released in recent years. At 38.5mm, this platinum reinterpretation of Vacheron’s Reference 6087 wears a little smaller than your average chronograph, and the famed “cow-horn” lugs add to the vintage-inspired touch. Its white dial is elegant and straight-forward and its thin baton hands are just the right length.

The in-house Calibre 1142 is the epitome of classic mechanical chronograph movement design, and the case’s sapphire crystal back permits an excellent view. The modest size of the Cornes De Vache, again a plus here, allows it to fit nicely under shirt cuffs and the dark alligator strap is smart and safe choice. Price, even with the platinum case and the remarkable movement, is up there at $75,000.

Patek Philippe 5170R-010

The Patek Philippe 5170R-010 has a rather similar dial layout to the Cartier and the Lange we have looked at above – and yet, the 5170R ends up being an incomparably different watch. Its dauphine hands, applied Breguet numerals and (relatively speaking) generously sized, 39.4 millimeter-wide rose gold case all make for a more powerful, and yet more classical look.

Patek Philippe does offer the 5170 in a few different versions, but it really is the rose gold (with either a white or black dial) that combines traditional with contemporary. Run by Patek’s hand-wound CH 29-535 PS, this is yet another look at the highest levels of traditional chronograph movement architecture. All this magnificence and the Patek name do come with a matching price: the Patek Philippe 5170R-010 is priced at $81,000.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph

Given the nature of this list, I would be remiss if I left out the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph. This watch makes the list for several reasons, first of which is its ability to blend in or stand out depending on your attire. The trademark AP “grande tapisserie” dial is available in a number of colors and is paired with either stainless steel or 18k gold case variants. The famous avant-garde styling of the Royal Oak lends itself well to a dressier nature and the stunning link band makes for a perfect combination.

You can change the vibe of the Royal Oak Chronograph easily by simply matching it to either a rubber strap, black or brown alligator options, or AP’s amazing bracelets – which are, of course, available in gold or steel. The movement cannot measure up to those offered by AP and VC, but the solid 2385 automatic caliber has sure been around long enough to be tried and proven by now. In gold, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph is priced at $38,500.

If there was one refrain echoed around Baselworld 2018, it was that far too many brands were playing it safe, hedging bets on the vintage re-issue trend with forgotten, back catalog editions. Blancpain sort of did this last year with the Milspec, but that watch was tied to a very specific vintage Fifty Fathoms model, and didn’t feel like too much of a departure from the modern Fifty Fathoms collection, which has consistently maintained strong ties with its source material over the years. This year, Blancpain is again reaching into its back catalog with the new limited edition Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day Date 70s, but this watch is more “inspired by” vintage editions, than a direct re-issue of one. Is that a good thing? Well, it’s certainly not a bad thing – here’s why.

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The Bathyscaphe was introduced to the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms diver line back in 2013, where it brought a healthy dose of vintage-inspired, but tech-savvy modernity to the collection. Soon to be available in titanium and ceramic along with the inaugural stainless steel, its 43mm case carried clean lines, interesting bevels, and muted finishes. It was finished with the Swatch Group’s signature technologies, like finely machine-finished movements, a Liquid Metal bezel, and later, colored ceramic cases, yielding a stealthy, albeit truly luxury product that quickly earned plenty of fans at aBlogtoWatch.

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If the Bathyscaphe had any detractors, they were generally of the mind that the expansive dial was perhaps too open – no thanks in part to the small, conical hourly indices, which don’t seem to match the proportions of the wider paddle-shaped hands. Those shortcomings have all but been rectified with the new Seventies Day Date, which borrows the exact dial layout from a vintage tonneau-shaped Fifty Fathoms from the early 1970s, and neatly drops it into the Bathyscaphe case. The end result is a more proportionately filled-in dial, whose applied rectangular indices are a better match to the handset. Even still, I can’t help but feeling like the whimsical minute track running the outer ring of the dial is a slight mismatch against the striking modern angles of the case and bezel.

In addition, the 913 has a glucydur balance wheel with gold micrometric regulating screws, which makes it flexible and also more shock-resistant compared to its predecessor. There is also a better winding system which employs a ball-bearing mounted rotor. The sapphire case back shows the rotor, which is reddish gold using a snailed bevel, glistening chamfers and straight and circular C?tes de Genève patterns. It has a 40-hour power reserve.At 29.2mm, the Blancpain Villeret Date Moonphase is a very small watch considering there is a moon phase and a date and a seconds hand, a rare edge in a small women’ automatic. It is proof of Blancpain’s devotion to producing size-appropriate high-grade calibers devoted to ladies’ watches at its elite collections. The date is elegantly spaced out only inside the hour track, indicated by a red-tipped pointer. The bezel is set with 48 diamonds and you will find eight diamond indicators in addition to four applied Roman numerals in the signature Villeret font. The dial is opaline and the strap is taupe-colored alligator. There are two references, one in 18k gold, priced at $19,900, and in steel at $16,600. Even as purveyors of possibly among the world’s first truly purpose-built dive watches, there’s no denying it has been a very long time since Blancpain has even been remotely close to the tool watch realm it once pioneered. That said it’s still neat to find the newest revisit those days using a marked level of panache from the newly announced Tribute to Fifty Fathoms Mil-Spec — a watch that might cost $14,000, but it’s still every bit the competent instrument once depended upon by combat divers from the late fifties.

Visible through the sapphire caseback, the Buy blancpain watches online Replica Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day Date 70s is powered by Blancpain’s automatic 1315 “DD” Calibre, a 4Hz (28,800vph) movement with a generous 120-hour power reserve and a day and date window at 3:00. The aperture for the date extends to the very outermost edge of the dial, placing it directly in-line with the silver chapter ring, which is a nice detail. It’s worth noting that this is the first time Blancpain has introduced any sort of complication to the 3-hand Bathyscaphe (outside of the Flyback Chronograph), but it’s not alone. Blancpain also debuted a trio of complicated Bathyscaphes, including an Annual Calendar and Calendar Moonphase – any of which should satiate anyone who thought the original 3-hand Bathy was too ‘sterile.’

The dial itself is now a graduated grey, which darkens towards the outer ring of the dial, rendering itself as a warm beige under direct light, not unlike what you’d see on a vintage watch with a faded ‘tropical’ dial. It’s definitely a neat effect, and one that starkly contrasts the clean, “Meteor Grey” sunburst dials found on the standard Bathyscaphes. Those warm tones are complemented by the ‘antique’ chocolate leather strap which also comes standard on this edition. On the wrist, the 43mm x 13mm case wears physically identically to the standard 3-handed Bathyscaphes (and by extension, identical to the new complicated models as well). But the warm, retro tones couldn’t yield a more different presence than the starkly modern, minimalist look and appeal of the standard version.

It’s odd that the Blancpain villeret watch band Replica Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day Date 70s (ref. 5052-1110-63A) is limited to only 500 pieces, as it would make for an excellent in-line companion to the standard Bathyscaphe for those looking for something a little more classically vintage-inspired. Intent notwithstanding, that limited nature also lends it a higher starting price of €12,000 on either sailcloth, NATO, or the distressed leather strap. That price jumps to €14,500 if you’d rather have it on the excellent bracelet. blancpain.com