Chronoswiss Delphis
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Chronoswiss, the independent Swiss-German maison Gerd-Rüdiger Lang founded in Munich in 1983, is known for its fluted onion crown and exposed screwed lugs on classically proportioned round cases. (Wikipedia) Lang's Delphis, introduced in 1996, was the first wristwatch to combine three display types on one dial: a digital jumping-hour aperture, a central retrograde minute hand snapping back from 60 to zero, and small seconds, an arrangement Chinese collectors nickname "独眼龙" (Cyclops) for the single jump-hour window dominating the layout. (Monochrome Watches) Specialist watch-history blogger 石版的钟表工作 identifies a Delphis on Andy Lau's Lau Kin-ming in Infernal Affairs III, reading the complication as fitting counterpoint to a character whose double life ends in psychotic delusion and an unsuccessful suicide attempt. (石版的钟表工作; mirrored at Zhihu)
Appearances
| Title | Year | Type | Actor | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infernal Affairs III (2003) | 2003 | Film | Andy Lau | Lau Kin-ming |