{"id":70487,"date":"2026-08-27T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/70487\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:28:12","slug":"tiffany-co-s-new-tiffany-timer-is-a-serious-chronograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/70487\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany & Co.’s New Tiffany Timer Is a Serious Chronograph"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s easy to forget that Tiffany & Co. is a watchmaker. The New York house is synonymous with diamonds and its robin\u2019s-egg-blue box, but its horological history runs deep: it began retailing watches in 1847 and, in 1866, introduced its first chronograph. That anniversary, 160 years on, is the occasion for the Tiffany Timer Titanium Platinum, a 100-piece limited edition unveiled today that takes the brand\u2019s watchmaking more seriously than its jewelry reputation might suggest.<\/p>\n

The Haute Minute<\/p>\n

The Tiffany & Co. Tiffany Timer Titanium Platinum is a 100-piece limited-edition chronograph marking the 160th anniversary of Tiffany’s first chronograph (1866), with a 40mm titanium case, platinum bezel, dark blue and Tiffany Blue dial, and a customized Zenith El Primero 400 movement topped by a hand-sculpted 18k gold Bird on a Rock rotor.<\/p>\n

\"TiffanyPhoto Credit: Tiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

The heritage is real. Two years after that 1866 \u201cTiming Watch,\u201d Tiffany\u2019s first stopwatch, the house renamed it the Timer and opened a watch-assembly workshop in Switzerland; by 1874 it was running a full manufacture in Geneva, producing chronographs and calendar watches. The new Timer is the second of a two-part anniversary series, following a 60-piece platinum edition with a Tiffany Blue dial released earlier this year.<\/p>\n

What makes this a watch enthusiast\u2019s Tiffany rather than a fashion piece is what\u2019s inside: a customized Zenith El Primero 400, one of the most storied chronograph calibers in existence. When Zenith launched the El Primero in 1969, it was the world\u2019s first integrated automatic chronograph, and its high-beat, column-wheel construction remains a benchmark today. Its classic three-register layout, chronograph minutes at three, hours at six above the date, and running seconds at nine, is as legible as chronographs get. That Tiffany can reach for it is a quiet benefit of its place within LVMH, alongside Zenith.<\/p>\n

Tiffany\u2019s own signature shows up where it counts. The 40mm case is satin-brushed Grade 5 titanium with a platinum bezel, its chronograph pushers curved into the case profile to double as crown guards. The sunray dark blue dial is accented with Tiffany Blue on the sub-dial markers, the outer seconds track, and the date, a restrained nod to the house\u2019s Blue Books. The showpiece, though, is on the back. Through the sapphire caseback, the open-worked rotor carries a miniature of the Bird on a Rock, the motif Jean Schlumberger designed for Tiffany\u2019s most famous brooch, sculpted by hand from a solid block of 18k yellow gold, just 1.4 centimeters wide, and hand-polished with diamond abrasives and sticks of gentian wood. It\u2019s the kind of detail only a jewelry house would attempt, and it turns the winding weight into a small piece of Tiffany artistry.<\/p>\n

\"TiffanyPhoto Credit: Tiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

The rest is properly specified: 50 hours of power reserve, 100 meters of water resistance, and a navy alligator strap on a titanium-and-steel folding clasp. This is not a watch pretending to be jewelry, nor jewelry pretending to be a watch. It\u2019s a legitimate Swiss chronograph, built on a legendary movement, and finished with a flourish no traditional watchmaker could pull off.<\/p>\n

Limited to 100 pieces and available from September, the Tiffany Timer is a small statement with a large idea behind it: that Tiffany\u2019s watchmaking deserves to be taken as seriously as its jewelry. On the evidence of an El Primero wearing a hand-carved golden bird, it\u2019s a case worth hearing.<\/p>\n

The Specs<\/p>\n

SKU: 76538182 \u00b7 Limited to: 100 pieces \u00b7 Available: September 2026Case: 40mm Grade 5 titanium, platinum bezel; 100m (10 ATM); sapphire casebackMovement: Customized Zenith El Primero 400, integrated column-wheel automatic chronograph, 50h reserve; 18k yellow gold Bird on a Rock rotorFunctions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, chronographDial: Sunray dark blue with Tiffany Blue accents, 12 steel indexes, white gold handsStrap: Navy alligator, triple folding clasp in steel and titanium5-year international warranty \u00b7 Swiss-made<\/p>\n

\"Adrienne<\/p>\n

Adrienne Faurote<\/p>\n

Editor in Chief \u00b7 Haute Time<\/p>\n

As a former New Yorker, now a \u201cMiamian,\u201d Adrienne Faurote joined Haute Living in August of 2021. She currently serves as the Haute Media Group Editor-in-Chief, overseeing all editorial platforms within the Haute Media Group while also maintaining her role as Fashion, Jewelry & Watch Director. Prior to her position at Haute Living, Faurote was the Market Editor at Marie Claire Magazine US, amassing over ten years in the industry, becoming an authoritative voice in all things fashion, jewelry, and watches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s easy to forget that Tiffany & Co. is a watchmaker. The New York house is synonymous with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12775],"tags":[43135,4955,12767,43136,43137,43138,43139,43140,43141],"class_list":["post-70487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tiffany-co","tag-bird-on-a-rock-watch","tag-lvmh","tag-tiffany-co","tag-tiffany-co-watches","tag-tiffany-160th-anniversary-chronograph","tag-tiffany-el-primero","tag-tiffany-timer-chronograph","tag-tiffany-timer-price","tag-tiffany-timer-titanium-platinum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}