Shinola Canfield Speedway

If you’ve got the need for speed, you need a watch that can keep up. Enter the Canfield Speedway. Our first chronograph with an automatic movement also comes souped with a tachymeter—a scale on the bezel that converts time elapsed into speed travelled. So whether it’s a Daytona mile or a Le Mans kilometer, you can always track who’s fastest.

Our most technical & complicated watch to date, the 44mm Canfield Speedway is for sure our ‘bona fide hotrod.’ The Swiss-made SW510 movement, housed in a polished stainless steel case, is no ordinary engine. From the Greek tachos metron – speed measure — a tachymeter is an algebraic shortcut engineered specifically for speed freaks. The Canfield Speedway’s fixed tachymeter scale along the bezel allows the wearer to easily measure the speed of a vehicle over a known distance. With 27 jewels and 48- hour reserve, it doesn’t just keep up, it sets the pace. To celebrate our first automatic chronograph, we marked the occasion with a custom Shinola checkered flag rotor on the movement – which can be seen through the full exhibition caseback. Complete with a black perforated leather strap and stock car-inspired colorway, the Canfield Speedway even looks fast.

The Canfield Speedway draws inspiration from vintage American racing & stock cars of the 1920’s – those everyday automobiles that mechanics like Louis “Red” Vogt would soup up & tune up until they were bona fide hotroads. Legend has it Red knew his craft so well, he didn’t need to use calipers — he could measure by eye and hand. From schooling Big Three auto engineers to building faster engines for moonshine runners, these master mechanics knew there was really no such thing as a finish line — only the next lap. And next time it would be faster, lighter, better.