When speaking about chronographs you will often hear about the Daytona from Rolex and perhaps the Carrera from Tag Heuer, but hey, there is wide variety of choices in the market. Let’s take for example the Raymond Weil’s Urban Black Freelancer that is an outstanding timepiece and yet not as pricey as the options we mentioned before.

This timepiece was launched last year and it’s important to remark that this brand produces chronographs made of quartz in their other products.

This model, the Freelancer Urban Black, is privileged with a Caliber 5000 that is basically an ETA movement (Valjoux7750) that has the date and day at the same time at 3 o’clock.

This timepiece comes with a stainless steel case of 42mm of black PVD. The Urban Black name is thanks to its PVD coating. The red and black dial features beautiful and easy to read Arabic numerals. It has a 12 hours counter at 6 o’clock and a 30 mWhen speaking about chronographs you will often hear about the Daytona from Rolex and perhaps the Carrera from Tag Heuer, but hey, there is wide variety of choices in the market. Let’s take for example the Raymond Weil’s Urban Black Freelancer that is an outstanding timepiece and yet not as pricey as the options we mentioned before.When speaking about chronographs you will often hear about the Daytona from Rolex and perhaps the Carrera from Tag Heuer, but hey, there is wide variety of choices in the market. Let’s take for example the Raymond Weil’s Urban Black Freelancer that is an outstanding timepiece and yet not as pricey as the options we mentioned before.vvcddfinutes sub dial at 12 o’clock that makes this watch look very sporty and elegant in personality.

You will notice how elegant this watch is as soon as you see it. You can notice the elegant look of the color red, white and black combination. The seconds hand and the chronograph hands have a bright red color that suit its white hands and Arabic numbers.

This timepiece’s chronograph is easy to use because of its simplicity. The pump pushers located at 4 and 2 o’clock are user friendly that starts, stops, and reset the chronographs in a very easy way.

The coating made of PVD makes the case very soft and hugs the wrist in a very nice way.

The Urban Black has a 46 hour power reserve which is a nice amount of power to have. It is a 100 meters or 330 feet water resistant.

This timepiece is priced for $3,250 which is a very fair price for a modern watch.