Maurice Lacroix Pontos – Collection Overview

The ‘Decentrique’ model is typical, with the main dial pulled towards ten o’clock, a smaller counter for a second time zone leaning down towards four o’clock and the date aperture peering out from behind the two dials at six o’clock. The new layout may be off-centre, but it has a curiously harmonious balance while looking startlingly new.

The Pontos Classical is a more traditional watch, with a slightly blocky feel to the dial details that is boldly masculine. The ‘Classical’ models include several chronographs, including one all-black model in titanium, with a ceramic-coated dial and a rubber racing-tyre strap.

Chronographs and off-centred sub-dials also feature in the ‘Rectangulaire’ models, once again adding a rare twist to an apparently standard rectangular configuration.

Though strictly speaking hardly an endurance watch, Maurice Lacroix had enough faith in the Pontos Rectangulaire, or at least in its Chronograph Rectangular Full Black version, to strap it to a pair of kiteboarders and sponsor them to cross the wind-swept Bering Strait.

Apparently, the watch emerged unscathed and it certainly looked the part with its black ceramic coating, black dial and black rubber strap the perfect match for the boarders’ black and yellow outfits. But then the Pontos line is all about making a statement and the particular appeal of the individual approach.