- One of the most remarkable watchmakers of our time, Daniel Roth commenced his horological journey with Audemars Piguet in the late 1960s and then by joining Breguet in 1973. In 1988 he would go on to create his his eponymous brand directly inspired by Abraham-Louis Breguet’s architectural design.

- Immediately imposing and carving his personal design language, most notably the ellipsocurvex case shape, he was one the earliest master watchmakers who decided to branch out and go "independent" with his vision.

- Using base movements such as Frederic Piguet, Lemania or Jaeger-LeCoultre, the calibers where then heavily modified and finished in the workshops with particular care despite the closed caseback (in most of the early examples like the present model). Beating inside the present timepiece is the finely-finished Lemania base movement caliber 2320. Featuring blued steel arrow shaped hands, the dials mostly follow a "British" style, with finely hand-decorated ligné or, like in the present example, Clous de Paris patterns. The solid grey gold dial further features silver rings displaying a satin finishing with Roman numerals to indicate the time and Arabic numerals for the seconds and chronograph totalizer displays.

- With very small production numbers, the present Daniel Roth chronograph numbered 31 is an example from early production, and it perfectly encapsulates the graceful and elegant aesthetics which Roth has adopted from his in-depth study of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s work.