We gave away a DeMarco Chronograph at the Windup Watch Fair in Chicago. The entries are in, and we have a winner.

Congratulations Chris

Chris, the Chronograph is yours. Thank you for coming by the booth, and we hope it gets worn hard rather than kept in a box.

To everyone else who entered, thank you. There were far more of you than we planned for, and it was a good problem to have.

What Chris has won

The Chronograph is the other half of what we make, alongside the Ironside 200 dive watch. It runs a VK64 Mechaquartz movement, which gives you a quartz-accurate time display with a real mechanical chronograph on top, so the sweep hand snaps back the way a mechanical chronograph should instead of ticking.

The rest of it: a 41mm 316L stainless steel case, sapphire crystal, Swiss Luminova on the hands and markers, and 100m water resistance. It is a watch built to be worn every day rather than kept for occasions.

If you want the reasoning behind the movement, we wrote about why a mecha-quartz makes sense in a modern microbrand watch. And a chronograph changes character completely depending on what you put it on, so there is a guide to styling a chronograph on different straps too.

You can see the full range, Chronograph and Ironside, on the DeMarco store page.

How it worked

It was exclusive to Windup Chicago. There was a card on the table with a QR code that read "Win a free DeMarco Chronograph". You scanned it, you entered, that was it.

There will be more

This was not a one off. We will be running giveaways around new releases and future shows, and the newsletter is where they get announced first.

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Thank you again to everyone who came to see us in Chicago.