The Retrograph Chronograph was designed around a specific job: timing an espresso shot in the 25-to-35-second range, while its 60-minute totalizer handles anything longer. That utilitarian brief comes through in three distinct dial treatments. Technicolor pairs a matte blue face with silver subdials on a dark blue leather strap; Rosegold Espresso Chocolate wraps a chocolate-toned sunburst dial in a rosegold PVD-plated case; and Lumint goes fully luminescent, with a mint-white dial designed to glow across its full face rather than just the hands and markers.

The case measures 38mm by 41.5mm, 10.4mm thick, with a 22mm lug width. Technicolor and Lumint use a 316L stainless steel case and caseback, while the Rosegold Espresso Chocolate version applies a rosegold PVD plating over the same 316L stainless steel construction. A sapphire crystal covers each dial, and all three come on a 22mm leather strap fitted with quick-release spring bars for faster swaps.

Movement is a hybrid meca-quartz chronograph, running the chronograph function mechanically off a quartz timekeeping base. Water resistance is rated to 5 ATM (50 meters), enough for daily wear and incidental water exposure.