This High-Performance Automotive Sports Watch Gets an Upgraded Chassis

Last year, Singer Reimagined, the horological offshoot of Porsche restomod masters Singer Vehicle Design, launched its first time-only watch, the Caballero.

But this was far from your ordinary three-hander. The dial featured no markers, instead displaying four deep jewel sinks containing synthetic ruby bearings, each serving the function of reducing friction on one of the four mainspring barrels of the Caballero’s ambitious in-house movement.

The watch’s sleek, streamlined three-part 39mm case resembles a fastback in profile. At launch, it debuted in stainless steel; pretty standard fare for a sports watch. But now, Singer Reimagined has given the Caballero’s chassis a lightweight upgrade by swapping out the steel for Grade 5 titanium in a pair of new references.

Singer Reimagined

Light work

The biggest change in the Caballero Titanium compared to last year’s models, obviously, is the material change for the case. Scratch-resistant, ultralight Grade 5 titanium alloy is now used for the screw-on caseback, midcase and coinedge bezel, and it’s finished with a tantalizing mix of micro-sandblasted surfaces and mirror-polished edges. The crown remains in polished stainless steel.

The case isn’t the only thing that’s different here, though. We also get two new dials with a unique finish and a slightly different layout than before. The signature four exposed rubies and applied golden toothed flange remain, and the handset is unchanged, but the large applied Singer logo at 12:00 has been jettisoned in favor of more discreet gold text around the edge of the dial at both the top and bottom.

Singer Reimagined

Instead of a glossy lacquered finish, the new dials feature an ultra-matte “velvet touch” treatment that absorbs light and gives the dials a sense of visual softness. There are two colors, Cocoa Brown and Avio Blue, both of which are well matched to the orange Super-LumiNova accents of the Caballero’s hands.

The manual-wind engine inside is the same, which makes sense as it’s the most impressive thing about the Caballero. Singer’s first fully in-house movement, the Calibre-4 Solotempo features two sets of double mainspring barrels that work in parallel to grant the watch a lengthy six-day power reserve. More importantly, this setup keeps torque flat and amplitude consistent across the movement’s entire 144-hour runtime by maintaining an even flow of energy from the four mainsprings.

What that means in practical use is that there is little to no degradation in the watch’s chronometric accuracy at the end of the power reserve, which is what you’ll normally encounter on a mechanical watch.

Singer Reimagined

Availability and pricing

Both the Cocoa Brown and Avilo Blue are equipped with a stitched textile strap with leather loops and a stainless steel pin buckle (it should be titanium, tbh): olive green for the former and pearl gray for the latter.

The Caballero Titanium joins Singer Reimagined’s permanent collection and is available to preorder now from authorized dealer Collective Horology for $27,500.

Singer Reimagined

Singer Reimagined Caballero Titanium

Specs

Case Size	39mm
Movement	Singer Reimagined Cal. 4 Solotempo manual-wind
Water Resistance	50m

• $27,500 at Collective Horology

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