CHAPAL is renewing its collaboration with Kelton for a new limited edition of the 1972 Chronograph:

Two new graphical dials.
Four straps in “pop-rock” colors.

This new collaboration is an ode to the 70s, so dear to the two French brands.

At that time, an advertising slogan caught the attention of the French: ‘Vous vous changez… changez de Kelton’.

For CHAPAL, it was the time of maxi rabbit coats: Jacques Dutronc, Johnny and Sylvie loved them. Formula 1 drivers, ambassadors of the brand, made the cover of celebrity magazines with their Chapalac jackets and became stars also.

Kelton and CHAPAL celebrate this blessed period 55 years later. An opportunity to tell the new generation how happy and carefree France was.

Kelton designed these new dials: they are reminiscent of a military aircraft fuselage, with the metal welds running in a star pattern.
They are powered by the ST 1901 caliber, heir to the legendary Venus 175, a hand-wound movement developed in Switzerland in the 1940s.

CHAPAL offers a remarkable squadron of two-tone “pop-rock” straps on glossy lacquered Chapalac vegetal-tanned leather.
This leather plastification process was invented by CHAPAL and used on US Air Force jackets during World War II, then in the 1970s on bright colored rabbit skins.