Nivada Chronoking 87034Q10

2024 Nivada Chronoking “Paul Newman” Orange 38mm

Here we have a 2024 Nivada Chronoking “Paul Newman” Orange, a modern reinterpretation of their 1960s Chronoking 4324 and Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver chronographs. The dial is inspired by the 1960s Rolex Daytona reference 6239, famously worn by Paul Newman. Jean Singer in Switzerland made those distinctive tricompax dials as well as for Omega, Bucherer, Heuer and LeJour. Featuring a 38mm brushed and polished stainless steel case that curves over your wrist with tapered, flat-ended, drilled lugs, a bevelled edge flows along its flanks to a lug-to-lug length of 46.5mm and a case thickness of 13mm, ensuring a comfortable fit on your wrist. Taking its design cues from the legendary Chronoking of their past, they have added a pleasing modern contemporary flair. On the right side, we have polished piston-style chronograph pushers and a large, signed crown in the centre. A rotating no-click bezel features a black aluminium insert with a silver 60-minute scale, holding a double-domed sapphire crystal, in keeping with its vintage aesthetic, evoking the domed acrylic crystals of the past, above a matte black dial. An outer Tachymeter scale above the precisely executed bright orange minute track surrounds yellow baton indexes marking the hours, at 3 o’clock a 24-hour register, at 6 o’clock a continuous seconds register and finally at 9 o’clock a 60-minute register, each recessed and concentric circular patterned in cream, a nice contrast to the black and orange dial featuring the iconic Singer numeral font. Slender baton hands filled with yellow Super-LumiNova are complemented by a tapered orange chronograph hand. At noon, we have the Nivada Grenchen motif and “Chronoking” printed underneath, completing this vintage-inspired sports chronograph. On the reverse, a screw-down case back with the watch details around its edge and the Nivada Grenchen motif in the centre, inside MecaQuartz Seiko Cal. VK64A, this mechanical quartz hybrid has a tuning-fork-type quartz crystal; you get the same kind of mechanical resistance when you engage the pushers, and a satisfying snap-back of the chronograph seconds hand on reset. The watch comes paired with its 20mm leather rally-style strap with a signed pin buckle, and it includes its Nivada presentation box, swing tag, and paperwork.