Description
ROYALE PARIS CHRONO BPM
With the Royale Paris Chrono BPM, the French Manufacture Pequignet brings electronic music and the chronograph together on a single dial. The tachymeter scale gives way to a BPM (Beats Per Minute) graduation, transforming a sporting measuring instrument into a musical compass.
Two disciplines of excellence, born in France two centuries apart. The chronograph, invented in the 19th century, measures performance. French Touch, which emerged in Parisian clubs in the late 1990s, transformed electronic music into a universal language. Both share the same exacting approach to tempo, the same obsession with detail, and the same pride in a French heritage instantly recognisable around the world.
With the Royale Paris Chrono BPM, the tachymeter scale gives way to a BPM (Beats Per Minute) graduation, transforming a sporting measuring instrument into a musical compass. Like a pulsometer, with the pusher activated, simply count 30 bass-drum beats and the scale reveals where you stand: between 110 and 130 BPM, groove to French Touch. At 60 BPM, Reggae sooths a hectic day. From 70 to 95 BPM, it is 90’s rap and beyond 140 BPM, eyes closed, arms in the air, trance music is the atmosphere.
The dial draws on colour codes familiar to an entire generation: an electric-blue gradient, from azure evenings to the dark nights of minimalist clubs for those who stay out until late. The sound bars, represented between midnight and 2 a.m., are a nod to the importance of maintaining balanced, unclipped sound — something every true music lover respects before pressing play on the next track.
In te center of it all, the Calibre Initial® Chronograph, Pequignet’s fifth Manufacture movement, takes on the role of a metronome.
The Pequignet Manufacture holds the prestigious "Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant" (EPV) label. French Touch is part of France’s intangible cultural heritage and is set to be submitted for UNESCO recognition.
Two distinctions. One watch.
Calibre Initial® Chronograph: a new development
To power this new chronograph, Pequignet has developed a movement based on the Calibre Initial®, enhanced with new finishing touches. This fifth movement has been designed to create a chronograph watch whose thickness remains well controlled. Like the Maison’s other four movements, all components are sourced within a radius of less than 80 km around the Manufacture.
Polished and satin finish stainless steel
Domed glass box anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Crown with embossed "fleur de lys"
2 chronograph pushers (start/stop and reset) polished with concave tips
Crown and pushers aligned
Graining texture (marked grains) with double gouge on the periphery
Black transferred logo
Bevelled indices with polished and satin-finished rhodium surface
Two snailed counters
Small seconds counter (right) and 30-minute chronograph counter (left)
"Beats per Minutes" scale on the outer groove
Polished steel hours and minutes hands with Super Luminova TC1 (blue)
Polished steel chronograph seconds and counters hands
Central 60-second counter with central hand
30-minute chronograph counter at 9 o'clock
Small seconds at 3 o'clock
For your peace of mind, Pequignet watches are guaranteed for 3 or 5 years from the date of purchase: 5 years for models equipped with a Pequignet movement (Royale collection, Attitude, Extrême 300, Concorde) and 3 years for other automatic, manual or quartz models.
If you encounter a problem with your watch during the warranty period, you may count on our customer service and on our expert watchmakers to resolve the problem at no cost to you. This warranty applies to all the watches and covers all manufacturing defects in normal conditions of use. This warranty is effective only if the watch returned is accompanied by the warranty certificate, duly dated, signed and bearing the stamp of the retailer authorised to represent Pequignet. Each watch arriving at the Manufacture shall be the subject of an examination undertaken by our master watchmaker, in order to certify its condition.
