“The brand’s instrument-driven watches welcomed a more complicated chronograph model earlier this year. In true Reservoir style, the chronograph borrowed design elements from another instrument, this time associated with analogue musical equipment: the VU meter. Along with the conventional totalisers for elapsed times, the bi-retrograde counters for the minutes and date emulate the look of a classic VU meter, an indicator used on analogue amplifiers to measure the level of sound intensity. Following fast on the heels of the first two-tone editions, the latest Sonomaster Chronograph is rocking in black.”