Singer Reimagined launched in 2017 with the Track1, a chronograph that puts the stopwatch at the center of the dial and moves the time to the edge. Nine years later, the brand makes a restored vintage chronograph, a time-only watch with its first proprietary movement, and two GMTs. Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly break Singer’s history into three chapters.

Chapter 1: The central chronograph era. Marco Borraccino, formerly head of design at Panerai, and Rob Dickinson of Singer Vehicle Design founded the brand around Agenhor’s AgenGraphe, a movement Singer helped bring into existence. We cover why an inverted chronograph is easier to read than a traditional one, the Flytrack and 1969 collections, and the Divetrack, the watch that made us want to carry the brand.

Chapter 2: The Heritage Collection. Singer applies its restomod approach to new old stock Valjoux chronograph movements, rebuilding and refinishing them for a conventional two-register chronograph. Then comes the three-register Valjoux 72 version, including a gold execution where the metal serves the design.

Chapter 3: Calibre 4. Singer’s four-barrel, six-day movement debuts in the time-only Caballero. It then powers the DualTrack, a GMT that rotates a 24-hour ring instead of adding a hand, and the new 1970 DualTrack, a 40mm steel sports watch on an integrated bracelet.

We close on Marco’s range as a designer: how a lineup that runs from a dive chronograph to a time-only watch still reads as one brand.

Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly of Collective Horology, the Watches of Podcast looks at the history, philosophy, personalities, and of course the watches of a different brand on each episode. Also available as video on YouTube. Collective is an authorized retailer of the brands featured on this podcast. You can learn more, and find their watches, at collectivehorology.com.