Porsche Design Chronograph HODINKEE SpecialPricing a signed crown at 5

a signed crown at 5 o’clock

and Derek Bell

thankfully visible via a sapphire exhibition caseback

GP produced a fair number of quartz watches

this piece dates to circa the late 1960s and features a satin gray dial with applied baton indices and a matching pencil handset

Porsche Design Chronograph HODINKEE SpecialPricing a signed crown at 5Its not every day that a truly original watch rears its head. The Porsche Design Chronograph, however, is one such timepiece. Designed by none other than Ferdinand Alexander Butzi Porsche (creator of the 911), it was a technological marvel released in the very midst of the Quartz Crisis. Available in stainless steel, it was perhaps more famously seen in black PVD coated steel as in this example making it the first commercially available timepiece to