The Coating Comes Off

BA111OD strips the PVD from its Chapter 7 Skeleton and narrates the subtraction as summer. What survives the strip is smaller — and real.

In May, the Chapter 7 Skeleton arrived in anthracite PVD, a coating engineered to swallow light. This month it arrives with the coating gone. The steel beneath is what you now see. Everything else holds — the 40mm case, the Soprod P024, the thirty-eight hours, the faceted bezel, the crown pushed to four o’clock. A single process has been subtracted, and…