Habring² / Doppel
Habring² Doppel
Collection profile · 2012
Doppel is Habring²’s split-seconds chronograph family, built around Richard Habring’s famed rattrapante concept and positioned as a rare independent-watchmaker route to an advanced chronograph complication without the usual stratospheric pricing.
Why it matters
It established Habring² as one of the most credible modern names in accessible high-complication watchmaking, translating a historically difficult chronograph into a practical independent-luxury proposition.
Key references
Collection timeline
- 2024 — Habring²’s collection pages still reference Doppel as an active family and related split-seconds platform.
- 2024 — The brand’s FAQ explains that Doppel is one of the few lines not capped at the usual small annual output level.
- 2024 — Recent Habring² materials continue to position the split-seconds concept as core to the brand’s identity.
FAQ
What complication defines the Doppel collection?
A split-seconds, or rattrapante, chronograph.
Why is Doppel important for Habring²?
It turns a historically rare complication into a defining, more attainable part of the brand’s independent watchmaking identity.
More from Habring²
- Felix — Habring² Felix is the independent brand’s starter watch family, built around the A11B base movement and offered in restrained, configurable time-only and sport-oriented executions.
- Erwin — Erwin is Habring²’s time-and-jumping-seconds family, a mechanically distinctive yet wearable independent watch that showcases the brand’s hand-finished movement culture through a clean three-hand layout with a dead-beat-style jumping seconds display.