Hands-on with the Singer Reimagined 1970 DualTrack (Live Photos)

The GMT, Reimagined

By Gabe Reilly

I went hands-on with the Singer Reimagined 1970 DualTrack a few weeks ago in Geneva. It was, hands down, my favorite watch at Geneva Watch Days. Now I can finally talk about it.

For years, Singer meant one thing: the Agenhor-powered Agengraph, an automotive-inspired chronograph unlike anything else in independent watchmaking. That reputation was well-earned, and it was also a box. In 2025, Singer started climbing out of it. First came the Heritage collection, restoring classic chronograph calibres. Then came the Caballero, a time-only watch and Singer's first in-house movement. Different complications, different looks, still unmistakably Singer.

The 1970 DualTrack is where that 18-month run lands, and it's also the start of something new: Singer's first dedicated collection, called simply "1970," built around a fresh design language that dual time is only the first complication to express.

Why 1970

The name isn't nostalgia marketing. Singer points to a real inflection point in industrial design: the early 1970s, when the rounded, flowing forms of the '60s gave way to sharper geometry and more architectural confidence, across cars, furniture, and watches alike. Designers like Bertone and Marcello Gandini were doing it in automotive design at the time, building cars whose lines suggested speed and structure rather than just curves.

Singer isn't recreating a period piece. There's no fauxtina, no reissue case shape lifted from an archive. What they took from the era is the attitude: objects that look confident in their geometry. The faceted case and integrated bracelet are the clearest expression of that, and they flow into each other rather than reading as a case with a strap bolted on.

That bracelet has a name, too: Track Curb. The link shape is a nod to racetrack curbing, tying back to Singer's automotive roots even on a watch that has nothing to do with a chronograph.

A Geometric Case, Built to Wear

The case is stainless steel: 40mm in diameter, 12.6mm thick, 44.5mm lug-to-lug by my own measurements (Singer doesn't publish that figure, but I measured it directly off the watch). Those numbers translate into a watch that wears exceptionally well on a 6.75-inch wrist.

The finishing does real work here. Brushed surfaces on the case flats contrast with mirror-polished chamfers at the edges, so the watch's silhouette changes as it catches light and moves on the wrist rather than reading as one flat plane. The H-link bracelet carries the same brushed-and-polished treatment, with more than a link's worth of microadjust built into the clasp: press the button inside, no tools required. The case back is screwed and fitted with a sapphire crystal, so you can see the movement without cracking the watch open.

Calibre 4 DT Slim: Four Barrels, Six Days

Behind the case is Singer's proprietary Calibre 4 DT Slim (technical reference ST5001), a manually wound movement built from the ground up rather than adapted from an existing base. The headline feature is a patent-pending four-barrel architecture: two sets of twin barrels, coupled in series, meeting in parallel at the finishing gear. That configuration is what gets you six days of power reserve (144 hours minimum) without the usual torque drop-off you'd see from a single barrel running down.

That matters more than it sounds. A flatter, more consistent torque curve means the escapement gets more even energy delivery across the full power reserve, which means more consistent amplitude and accuracy from the first hour of wind to the last, not just when the mainspring is fully wound. Singer's master watchmaker Jeremy Winckel put it directly: "This is not just about meeting chronometry standards. It is about exceeding them, every single day the watch is worn." Singer's stated accuracy is -4/+6 seconds per day, running at a traditional 4Hz (28,800 vph) on an anchor escapement, with 39 jewels across 197 parts.

Finishing is hand-done throughout: galvanic rhodium-plated, microblasted bridges and plates, rhodium-plated cut diamond chamfers, and Singer Reimagined's own engravings across the four barrels and winding bridge. It's a movement designed to be looked at, not just to run well.

Reading Two Times, Not Fighting Them

Home time sits at the center of the dial on traditional hour and minute hands. The second time zone lives on a rotating 24-hour disc at the periphery, read off a fixed arrow index at 6 o'clock. Press the pusher at 9 o'clock and the disc advances an hour at a time, one press per hour, no need to hack the whole watch to adjust it.

Singer calls this "the complication of connection," and while that's marketing language, the idea behind it isn't wrong: most GMT complications answer the second-time-zone question with an extra hand, a subdial, or an external scale, all of which ask you to interpret an additional indication layered onto the dial. DualTrack instead asks you to look in exactly one place, every time. Co-founder and creative director Marco Borraccino frames it as two kinds of movement happening at once: "the movement of design, from the softer forms of the 1960s to the sharper, more architectural language of the 1970s," and "the movement of modern life, across cities, time zones and emotional connections." Whether or not you buy the poetry, the mechanical logic holds up on the wrist: it's a genuinely novel way to lay out a dual-time watch, and it's more intuitive than a lot of conventional GMT complications. One glance at 6 o'clock tells you the second time zone. It raises the question of why more brands haven't gone this route.

Three Dials

The 1970 DualTrack comes in three colors, and each one changes the character of the watch more than you'd expect from a dial swap alone.

Cobalt Blue is the most dynamic of the three. It's not a flat, static blue: it shifts with light between a deep midnight tone and a brighter cobalt, which gives the dial a sense of motion even sitting still on a table.

Khaki Green is the most Singer-coded of the group, and the one that ties most directly back to the brand's existing visual identity. It reads calmer and more tool-watch than the blue, with a warmth that softens the case's hard edges without losing any of its presence.

Dark Espresso Brown is the sleeper pick, and my favorite of the three. Think tropical dial, but intentional rather than aged. It's the warmest and most understated of the three, and the gold accents feel like they belong to the dial rather than sitting on top of it.

All three share the same detail language: mirror-polished, faceted hour markers that echo the case's geometry, applied rather than printed, and filled with cream and orange Super-LumiNova. That two-tone lume isn't just a legibility choice: it's a period-correct nod to '70s dashboard and instrument colorways without tipping into costume-y fauxtina. On select versions, the rotating 24-hour flange gets a golden galvanic treatment that ties the gold accents together across the dial.

Final Thoughts

What makes the 1970 DualTrack compelling isn't just the dial layout or what it says about Singer's evolution past the chronograph. It's that the watch is simply badass to wear. That's not a knock on the engineering: the four-barrel movement and the DualTrack display are real, patent-pending watchmaking, and Singer's design team clearly did the work to make a two-timezone watch that doesn't look or feel like every other GMT on the market. But the case and bracelet do a lot of the talking on the wrist. Put one of these on and you feel like a cool chef. That's the highest praise I can offer a watch, aside from adding one to my collection, which I'm also doing.

Specs

• Case: 40mm stainless steel, 12.6mm thick, 44.5mm lug-to-lug, brushed with mirror-polished chamfers
• Movement: Singer Calibre 4 DT Slim (ref. ST5001), manual wind, 109 turns
• Architecture: Patent-pending four-barrel configuration (two sets of twin barrels, coupled in series, in parallel)
• Power Reserve: 6 days (144 hours minimum)
• Frequency: 28,800 vph (4Hz), anchor escapement
• Accuracy: -4/+6 seconds per day
• Jewels / Parts: 39 jewels / 197 parts
• Function: Hours, minutes, seconds, second time zone via rotating 24-hour disc, advanced by 9 o'clock pusher
• Water Resistance: 100 meters
• Crystal: Domed sapphire, double-sided anti-reflective coating; screwed sapphire exhibition caseback
• Bracelet: Stainless steel Track Curb H-link, 22mm tapering to 18mm, folding buckle with integrated microadjust
• Dial Options: Cobalt Blue (SR811-3), Khaki Green (SR811-2), Dark Espresso Brown (SR811-5)
• Warranty: 36 months international

The Singer Reimagined 1970 DualTrack is available at collectivehorology.com. Thanks for reading and supporting independent watchmaking.