Raymond Weil's 50th year continues with a 500-piece Millesime Jubilee Chronograph

Raymond Weil is marking its 50th year for a second time with the Millesime Jubilee Chronograph Automatic, announced at the start of October. The Geneva-based independent follows The Fifty, unveiled at Watches & Wonders, with a watch built closer to the architecture of the regular Millesime Automatic Chronograph.

The Fifty was a 50-piece limited edition powered by restored 1976 Valjoux movements, fitted into a 37mm case. The new Jubilee carries the same neo-vintage character but makes the celebration easier to join: a larger case, a more standard automatic calibre and a run of 500 pieces instead of fifty.

What the Millesime Jubilee changes

The stainless steel case measures 39mm across and 12.9mm thick, keeping the compact proportions that define the Millesime collection. Polished and brushed finishes alternate across it, and the flat, stepped bezel echoes the chronographs of the 1940s. Rounded lugs give the shape a gentler line.

A glassbox sapphire crystal covers the face with anti-reflective treatment on both sides, and a sapphire caseback shows the movement behind it. Classic pushers at 2 and 4 o'clock flank a fluted crown stamped with the RW logo. Water resistance is rated at 50 metres.

The dial is built in four parts and carries more colour than The Fifty offered. A silver grained ring holds the hour markers, while a silver azure-finished flange frames a light blue central disc. Two midnight-blue snailed sub-dials are at 3 and 9 o'clock, forming the bi-compax chronograph layout.

That two-counter arrangement is what separates the Jubilee from the regular Millesime Automatic Chronograph. The 9 o'clock counter carries the running seconds, and the register at 3 o'clock tallies the chronograph minutes. Black hour markers and obelisk-shaped hands are filled with green-glowing Super-LumiNova.

The central section alternates gadroon finishes and carries a raised Raymond Weil Genève logo, with the words EST 1976 set inside a cartouche beneath it. Raymond Weil has kept the display clean by leaving the date off entirely, so the dial carries nothing beyond the time and the chronograph's two registers.

The movement and the price

Inside is the automatic calibre RW5030, built on a Sellita SW510, itself a reconfigured Valjoux 7750. It is a bi-compax mechanical chronograph delivering hours, minutes and small seconds alongside central chronograph seconds and a 30-minute counter. The movement beats at 28,800 vibrations per hour.

Raymond Weil puts the power reserve at 62 hours, and the movement is visible through the caseback with a matte, industrial finish and an openworked rotor carrying the brand's name. The watch is worn on a midnight-blue calfskin strap closed with a pin buckle.

The Millesime Jubilee is limited to 500 pieces and priced at CHF 3,895, with the euro and dollar figures matching at EUR 4,275 and USD 4,275. In our coverage of style we have watched the house grow through its anniversary year, and this is the second chapter of that marking.

Monochrome's reviewer found the design appealing but judged the asking price high for what the watch delivers, calling the movement off the shelf and suggesting the value sat closer to half the list figure. The criticism is aimed at the pricing strategy rather than the chronograph's execution.

Raymond Weil was founded in 1976, which makes 2026 the fiftieth year the family-owned, independent maison has been producing watches in Geneva. The brand has spent the whole of that year celebrating the milestone, first with The Fifty and now with the Jubilee Chronograph.

When we covered the anniversary pieces around it, the story was the same shape: marks of long years in business. Hanhart put Steve McQueen's signature on the 417 ES chronograph, and Moritz Grossmann marked its founder's 200th birthday with two dark Benu watches. Breguet marked its Marine anniversary with new hand-guilloché dials.

The Jubilee positions itself beneath that, closer in footprint and calibre to the standard automatic chronograph, and it arrives at a price below The Fifty's.

The anniversary year has already carried the maison through the spring launch at Watches & Wonders.

Raymond Weil has not announced a follow-up, and the brand describes the Jubilee as a continuation of the anniversary story rather than the final word on it.

The watch reaches the market this autumn bearing the EST 1976 cartouche and the same Geneva provenance, but with a movement a wearer can service at any workshop that knows the Valjoux 7750. That practicality, rather than the restored vintage calibres, is what the Jubilee is selling.