.jpg?ssl=1 "The World’s Hottest Young Watchmaker Just Dropped a Game-Changing Chronograph")
The World’s Hottest Young Watchmaker Just Dropped a Game-Changing Chronograph
Want more insider watch coverage? Get Box + Papers, GQ’s newsletter devoted to the watch world, sent to your inbox every Friday. Sign up here to get it free. When I visited Rexhep Rexhepi, the renowned watchmaking phenom, at his Geneva workshop in the summer of 2024, the obsession had already started. His workbench was scattered with vintage chronographs, and his mind was whirring with ideas for how he might innovate on the age-old stopwatch complication. “I would be very interested now to do something that is different on the chronograph,” said Rexhepi, whose watches routinely sell for millions at auction. Now, nearly two years after that meeting—and four since Rexhepi’s last major release—the watchmaker has unveiled his latest model, the RRCHF. Rexhepi may have downplayed his ambitions when he said he wanted to do something interesting with the chronograph. These days, even many watch enthusiasts—including one watch brand executive I recently spoke with—are quick to point out that timepieces are now little more than symbols of status and taste, with no real practical value. …
