Chronoking Salmon, a 38 mm meca-quartz chronograph limited to 100 pieces
The Chronoking Salmon is a 38 mm stainless steel chronograph with a salmon sunray dial, tan sub-dials and a TMI VK63A meca-quartz movement, water resistant to 100 m. Nivada Grenchen released it in 2024 as a limited edition of 100 pieces, and it now has its place in the Retrospective of our limited editions.
The dial is salmon, with a sunray finish that plays with the light. Tan sub-dials, printed with art deco-style typography, sit on top of it, and the minute track runs in a white gradient around the edge. Together, these layers give the dial an unusual sense of depth.
White luminous applied indexes and a thick black printed logo keep it legible, and the black hands stand out clearly against the warm colour. Discover the other versions of this chronograph in our Chronoking collection.
The Chronoking Salmon takes its cue from a vintage Chronoking dial of the 1970s. The original sat on a tonneau case with a Valjoux 72 movement, and its dial came from Jean, a dial maker in La Chaux-de-Fonds known for some of the boldest exotic dials of the era.
This version keeps the colours, the sub-dial typography and the spirit of that decade, in a round 38 mm case built for today. To learn more about where it comes from, read the complete history of Nivada Grenchen.
Case
38 mm, 316L stainless steel, polished and brushed, 12.95 mm thick, 46.5 mm lug to lug
Glass
Double-domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
Dial
Salmon sunray dial, tan sub-dials, white luminous applied indexes
Movement
TMI VK63A meca-quartz chronograph
Bezel
Black insert with 60-minute scale
Water resistance
100 m / 10 ATM
Strap
Racing strap, leather strap, Tropic rubber strap, flat link or beads of rice bracelet
Inside is the TMI VK63A meca-quartz movement. The quartz module keeps the time, while a mechanical module drives the chronograph, so the chronograph hand sweeps across the dial as smoothly as on a mechanical watch. That is why meca-quartz is often called a hybrid. Find out more in What is a meca-quartz chronograph? and our guide to the VK63, VK64 and VK67 calibres.
The case is 316L stainless steel, polished and brushed, 38 mm wide, 12.95 mm thick and 46.5 mm from lug to lug, with a steel caseback. A double-domed sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating covers the dial, and the watch is water resistant to 10 ATM, or 100 m.
FAQs
A chronograph is a watch with a built-in stopwatch. On the Chronoking Salmon, the central chronograph hand measures the seconds while a sub-dial counts the minutes, and the time keeps running on the main hands.
A meca-quartz movement combines a quartz module, which keeps the time with quartz precision, and a mechanical module, which drives the chronograph. The Chronoking Salmon uses the TMI VK63A, which gives the chronograph hand the smooth sweep of a mechanical chronograph.
Press the top pusher to start the chronograph, and press it again to stop it. Press the bottom pusher to reset the chronograph hands to zero. The main hands keep showing the time throughout.
