Last week was a big one for Baltic, as it saw the release of their collaboration with SpaceOne, the Seconde Majeure, which is easily one of our favorite watches of the year so far. With all the teases for that watch in the lead up to its release at the end of the week, you may have missed another Baltic launch that took place right before it. To celebrate the brand’s fourth consecutive year as the official timekeeper of the Tour Auto (the modern version of the classic Tour de France Automobile, which began all the way back in 1899) Baltic has released a limited edition rally timer, a combination stopwatch and dashclock, that in its own way is every bit as idiosyncratic as the Seconde Majeure.
This of course is not the first time Baltic has released a limited edition for the Tour Auto (see our coverage of their 2024 and 2025 releases here and here), but it is the first time that release hasn’t included a wristwatch. The 2024 release did include a similar rally timer combo, but not as a standalone effort – it was bundled with a chronograph that surely would have been the main draw for most buyers.
Here, Baltic is centering an unusual timing device, but one that is core to racing, much more than a wristwatch. The rally timer as conceived by Baltic consists of two separate instruments. First, a stopwatch, with a light blue dial, which is powered by a manually wound Hanhart caliber with flyback functionality. The flyback mechanism is particularly well suited to racing, as it is designed to easily time individual laps by starting a new timing session immediately upon reset.
The stopwatch is paired with a dashclock in the same light blue colorway. The layout is straightforward with Arabic numerals for the hours and an off-white subsidiary seconds scale at the 6:00 position. Both dials have a crosshatch motif accepted with a complementary shade of blue, and sharp blue hands. The dashclock runs on a manually wound Enloong 6497 movement with a 42 hour power reserve. Enloong is a low cost Chinese movement maker that specializes in affordable, often complicated calibers, including tourbillons. Those impossibly inexpensive tourbillons that you might be getting targeted Instagram ads for are likely powered by an Enloong movement.
Both timers measure 60mm in diameter and 18mm thick, use hesalite crystals, and are individually numbered on the caseback of the dashclock (the set will be made in a limited edition of 300 units). The caseback of the stopwatch features an engraving of the route of the Tour Auto, which winds through France from Paris to Biarritz.
The retail price of the Baltic Tour Auto Rally Timer is set at €825.00. Baltic
Zach Kazan
2026-05-11 14:00:00