The Choptank is a full-calendar chronograph that showcases the industrial style and maritime heritage of the Chesapeake Region. The tonneau shape is inspired by the "screwpile" style architecture of navigational lighthouse beacons in the Choptank River. The elegantly crafted case exudes durability and utility, designed for everyday wear as well as formal occasions. Encapsulating a guilloche-style dial with handcrafted rose gold hands. The grand-complication-set presented on the silver dial includes the following functions: minute, hour, day, month, date, 24-hour, moonphase, and chronograph counting functions for minutes, hours and seconds. Equipped with your choice of leather strap below.
The Choptank is a full-calendar chronograph that showcases the industrial style and maritime heritage of the Chesapeake Region. The tonneau shape is inspired by the "screwpile" style architecture of navigational lighthouse beacons in the Choptank River. The elegantly crafted case exudes durability and utility, designed for everyday wear as well as formal occasions. Encapsulating a guilloche-style dial with handcrafted rose gold hands. The grand-complication-set presented on the silver dial includes the following functions: minute, hour, day, month, date, 24-hour, moonphase, and chronograph counting functions for minutes, hours and seconds. Equipped with your choice of leather strap below.
Movement: Regulated and decorated by Towson Watchmakers, featuring an automatic Swiss Valjoux 7751 caliber with 25 jewels and a power reserve of 46 hours. Adjusted to 5 positions, featuring a Nivarox hairspring, Glucydur balance, Incabloc shock absorption, and chronometer-grade accuracy of ±5 seconds/day. The decoration includes rhodium-plating, Geneva stripes, Perlage on the base plate, heat-treated blued screws, and an engraved rotor with gold-plating.
Grand-Complication Set: Mastered by Hartwig Balke, this full calendar chronograph offers sweep-second central hand, minute counter at 12 o'clock, hour counter at 6 o'clock, and a full calendar with day/month windows at 12 o'clock. It also includes a moon-crescent central hand indicating date and moonphase integrated in the hour-counter sub-dial at 6 o'clock. Additional features comprise a 24-hour sub-dial at 9 o'clock with a constantly-rotating sweep-second hand. A date-reset pusher is installed on the left side of the case for quick-adjustment.
Stainless Steel Case: Forged by the world’s finest case-makers, the tonneau-shaped case measures 40mm x 44mm in diameter, 13.5mm in thickness, and has a lug width of 20mm. It features a satin-finish mid-section and lugs, mirror-finish bezel, scratch-resistant domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, and a gripped push-pull crown with three positions for quick-adjust date and moonphase. The case-back has a sapphire exhibition display with a screwdown frame engraved with customer and brand information. Additional features include a date reset pusher on the left side and free-standing oval shaped chronograph pushers with high-polish on the right. It has a water resistance of 5 ATM.
Guilloche Dial: Handmade from start to finish, the silver dial with black and blue text includes blue dotted minute markers and a red, white, blue TWC logo. The three sub-dials are engine-turned and distinguished with a rhodium divider. The applied hour-markers are rhodium-plated with a diamond-shape. The spade-shaped hands are rose gold, with the date hand indicated by a red moon crescent tip, and a central chronograph seconds hand with a cathedral tip.
Movement: Regulated and decorated by Towson Watchmakers, featuring an automatic Swiss Valjoux 7751 caliber with 25 jewels and a power reserve of 46 hours. Adjusted to 5 positions, featuring a Nivarox hairspring, Glucydur balance, Incabloc shock absorption, and chronometer-grade accuracy of ±5 seconds/day. The decoration includes rhodium-plating, Geneva stripes, Perlage on the base plate, heat-treated blued screws, and an engraved rotor with gold-plating.
Grand-Complication Set: Mastered by Hartwig Balke, this full calendar chronograph offers sweep-second central hand, minute counter at 12 o'clock, hour counter at 6 o'clock, and a full calendar with day/month windows at 12 o'clock. It also includes a moon-crescent central hand indicating date and moonphase integrated in the hour-counter sub-dial at 6 o'clock. Additional features comprise a 24-hour sub-dial at 9 o'clock with a constantly-rotating sweep-second hand. A date-reset pusher is installed on the left side of the case for quick-adjustment.
Stainless Steel Case: Forged by the world’s finest case-makers, the tonneau-shaped case measures 40mm x 44mm in diameter, 13.5mm in thickness, and has a lug width of 20mm. It features a satin-finish mid-section and lugs, mirror-finish bezel, scratch-resistant domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, and a gripped push-pull crown with three positions for quick-adjust date and moonphase. The case-back has a sapphire exhibition display with a screwdown frame engraved with customer and brand information. Additional features include a date reset pusher on the left side and free-standing oval shaped chronograph pushers with high-polish on the right. It has a water resistance of 5 ATM.
Guilloche Dial: Handmade from start to finish, the silver dial with black and blue text includes blue dotted minute markers and a red, white, blue TWC logo. The three sub-dials are engine-turned and distinguished with a rhodium divider. The applied hour-markers are rhodium-plated with a diamond-shape. The spade-shaped hands are rose gold, with the date hand indicated by a red moon crescent tip, and a central chronograph seconds hand with a cathedral tip.
Model: Choptank
Edition: First
Color Variant: Silver or Copper
Reference No: E250 - (S) or (C)
Serial No: 1 - 100
Production Quantity: 100pcs. per color
Region of Manufacturer: Maryland, U.S.A.
Watchmaker(s): Hartwig Balke
Customization: Strap, Engraving per Request
Warranty: Lifetime
Model: Choptank
Edition: First
Color Variant: Silver or Copper
Reference No: E250 - (S) or (C)
Serial No: 1 - 100
Production Quantity: 100pcs. per color
Region of Manufacturer: Maryland, U.S.A.
Watchmaker(s): Hartwig Balke
Customization: Strap, Engraving per Request
Warranty: Lifetime
Availability : One series with two references - both available.
Distribution : exclusively available for purchase here
Shipping : Fedex Priority
Cost : free + zero liability to you
Returns : no returns
Warranty : lifetime (must be located in the official TWC customer registrar)
Customization : strap + hands
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This First Edition CHOPTANK is sold-out and retired.
See the Second Edition here.