Porsche Design Chronograph Titanium Limited Edition Porsche Design was quick to make its intentions clear last year after parting ways with Eterna. Throughout the years the two companies have collaborated, Porsche Design has worked with Eterna to produce a variety of modest, technical timepieces. (In fact, you can read my review of the Porsche Design Worldtimer timepieces made during this period in the March 2013 edition of iW). last year. Porsche Design has set up its own watch division in Switzerland, appointing former Eterna technical director Patrick Kury as its chief, and launched two new timepieces a few months ago.

These new models are developed exclusively for the first time by the new Porsche Design Timepieces AG, headquartered in Solothurn, Switzerland, and serve two purposes. First, they mark the beginning of a completely new timepiece design and production process centered entirely on Porsche. Secondly, these new pieces recall the pioneering features of two of the brand’s most successful early models produced in the 1970s and 1980s: the Timepiece 1 and the Titanium Chronograph, respectively. Comes in matte black and titanium. In fact, this 1980 titanium watch is often considered the world’s first all-titanium case and bracelet style.

PORSCHE DESIGN Chronograph Titanium Limited Edition
Anyone who knows or owns these early models will recognize these latest watches - which is of course the point. The first models in the 2015 collection, the Porsche Design Timepiece No.1 on the right and the Porsche Design Timepiece Titanium Limited Edition, both limited to 500 pieces, are both instantly recognizable as serious timepieces. Watch.

I've been wearing the latter model for a week or so, and it feels light on my wrist, which isn't surprising considering its titanium case and buckle. But even with the not-exceptionally-thin ETA Valjoux automatic chronograph movement, the watch didn't stress my wrist as noticeably as other watches with this workhorse movement. Maybe it’s the padded calfskin strap that works its magic on my senses.