THE RED PUSHER
The Trademark of Hanhart.
The Legend
He tenderly pressed a kiss to her sleeping forehead before quietly leaving the apartment. When he looked at his Hanhart chronograph in the hangar, a smile flitted across his lips: she had painted the pusher with her red nail polish so that he would always think of her and return safely …
This is how the anecdote of the striking trademark that has characterized Hanhart since the introduction of chronographs in 1938 is told: the red pusher.
The technical Background
Of course, we at Hanhart also like to believe that the anecdote is the only true reason why Hanhart chronographs with a red pusher existed.
In reality, however, it was painted in the red signal color to prevent pilots in particular from inadvertently resetting the stop time. Many of the historic Hanhart calibers were equipped with a flyback function. Pressing the lower pusher would have immediately reset the stop time. As the chronographs were used for navigation purposes and for measuring various data, this could have been a momentous decision under certain circumstances.
