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Unworn Maurice Lacroix Aikon Automatic Chronograph 44mm Titanium — Box & Papers (Ref. AI6038-TT03F-330-1)
The Aikon is not a 2016 design. It is a 1990 design that Maurice Lacroix decided was worth reintroducing — and the second time around, they meant it.
Available now at Black Tag Watches (Aventura, Florida), this unworn example — reference AI6038-TT03F-330-1 — is offered complete with its original Maurice Lacroix presentation box, instructions, warranty papers, integrated titanium bracelet, and an additional grey rubber strap as part of the original factory delivery.
What Is the Maurice Lacroix Aikon Automatic Chronograph?
A 1990 Lineage Reintroduced with Greater Intention
The Aikon traces directly to the Calypso — the integrated-sport-luxury reference Maurice Lacroix launched in 1990 and produced until 2003. At its peak, the Calypso sold in excess of 100,000 units per year and gave Maurice Lacroix’s Saignelégier manufacture its place in the same 1970s-and-1990s integrated-bracelet lineage as the Royal Oak, the Nautilus, the Ingenieur, the Laureato, and the Overseas. The Aikon, launched in 2016 and re-engineered for mechanical movements in 2018, is the considered restart of that collection. The 44mm titanium chronograph is the line’s most fully specified expression.
Where the Aikon Sits in the Contemporary Swiss Market
The Aikon Automatic Chronograph occupies a specific and useful position in the contemporary Swiss sport watch market: a properly integrated-bracelet chronograph, manufactured in-house in Saignelégier, pitched directly at the buyer who wants the sport-luxury format without the multi-year waiting list and secondary-market premium of the Royal Oak Chronograph 26240 or the Overseas Chronograph 5500V. Maurice Lacroix manufactures its own cases and bracelets in Saignelégier — a variable that separates the brand from price-comparable watches relying entirely on third-party production.
Case & Dial Design: Six-Claw Bezel, Square-Motif Grey Dial
Case Construction: Grade 2 and Grade 5 Titanium
The 44mm case is constructed in grade 2 and grade 5 titanium and stands 15mm thick — proportions dictated by the chronograph movement underneath and softened meaningfully by titanium’s weight advantage over steel. The satin-finished bezel carries the signature six polished claws: the design element carried forward intact from the 1990s Calypso and the most immediate visual identifier of the Aikon across the full collection. The hexagonal screw-down crown sits at 3 o’clock between two screw-down chronograph pushers — a specification detail more commonly found at substantially higher price points than the Aikon occupies.
Grey Square-Motif Dial and Chronograph Layout
The grey dial carries a square-motif relief that catches light across the surface and reads cleanly against the contrasting sub-dials. The chronograph layout distributes the registers without crowding: 30-minute counter at 12, small-seconds at 9, 12-hour counter at 6, and a day-date aperture at 3. Polished hands and applied indices are luminous throughout, sized for legibility and proportioned consistently with the 44mm case. The dial finish is one of the aspects of the Aikon where Maurice Lacroix’s positioning is clearest — executed to a discipline that does not assume the buyer is forgiving at this price point.
Movement: Calibre ML112 — Valjoux 7750 Architecture
Why the Valjoux 7750 Base Matters
Inside the Aikon Automatic Chronograph is the calibre ML112 — Maurice Lacroix’s Swiss automatic chronograph built on the Valjoux 7750. The 7750, introduced in 1973 by Edmond Capt at Valjoux, is one of the most important automatic chronograph movements in modern Swiss watchmaking: robust, accurately regulated, simple to service anywhere in the world, and the architectural basis for chronographs produced across the full price range of the Swiss industry. Its continued use by serious Swiss makers is an endorsement of a movement architecture with fifty years of proven performance — not a cost decision.
The ML112 in the Aikon Context
In the ML112 execution, the movement runs at 28,800 vph with a 48-hour power reserve. The sapphire display caseback reveals the movement finished with circular graining on the plate and vertical Côtes de Genève on the bridges and rotor — a finishing level that places the ML112 above the base 7750 specification in visual presentation. Maurice Lacroix has worked seriously with 7750-based architecture for decades, and the ML112 is the production version of that experience applied to the Aikon line. As a horological argument for a 44mm titanium chronograph at this price point, the 7750 lineage is the centre of it.
Movement Specifications
Specification
Detail
Calibre
ML112, Swiss automatic
Base
Valjoux 7750
Jewels
21
Frequency
28,800 vph (4 Hz)
Power reserve
48 hours
Caseback
Sapphire display
Plate finishing
Circular graining
Bridge finishing
Côtes de Genève
Bracelet, Strap & Easy Change System
Integrated Titanium Bracelet with Double-Folding Clasp
The Aikon Chronograph is supplied on the original Maurice Lacroix integrated titanium bracelet with a double-folding clasp — a bracelet designed as a visual and structural extension of the case rather than as a separate accessory. Total wrist coverage as supplied is 210mm. The integration quality is one of the Aikon’s stronger arguments against price-comparable alternatives that rely on non-integrated strap configurations.
Easy Change System and Additional Rubber Strap
The Easy Change quick-swap system allows the integrated bracelet to be exchanged for any Maurice Lacroix compatible strap without tools. This unworn example includes an additional grey rubber strap with a gold M logo and tang buckle as part of the original factory delivery — a meaningful added-value detail for a buyer who wants the versatility of a second wearing configuration from day one.
Condition, Provenance & Documentation
Unworn, Complete Factory Delivery
Condition is unworn. The watch is offered with every element of its original Maurice Lacroix delivery: presentation box, instructions, and warranty papers. For a current-generation Aikon Chronograph, an unworn example with complete original documentation and the integrated bracelet intact is the appropriate acquisition condition — and it is increasingly the configuration that commands the clearest value proposition in the pre-owned Swiss chronograph market at this price level.
Condition and Accessories
Detail
Information
Condition
Unworn
Box
Original Maurice Lacroix presentation box
Papers
Instructions + warranty
Bracelet
Integrated titanium, 210mm
Additional strap
Grey rubber, gold M logo, tang buckle
Quick-change
Easy Change system
Full Specifications — Maurice Lacroix Aikon Chronograph AI6038-TT03F-330-1
Specification
Detail
Brand
Maurice Lacroix (Saignelégier)
Collection
Aikon Automatic Chronograph
Reference
AI6038-TT03F-330-1
Case
Grade 2 + grade 5 titanium, 44mm
Thickness
15mm
Bezel
Satin titanium, six polished claws
Crown
Hexagonal, screw-down
Pushers
Screw-down chronograph
Crystal
Sapphire front + caseback
Dial
Grey, square-motif relief
Layout
30-min at 12, seconds at 9, 12-hr at 6, day-date at 3
Movement
Calibre ML112, automatic, Valjoux 7750 base
Jewels
21
Frequency
28,800 vph
Power reserve
48 hours
Bracelet
Integrated titanium, double-folding clasp, 210mm
Extra strap
Grey rubber, tang buckle
Quick-change
Easy Change
Condition
Unworn
Box & Papers
Full set
Why Buy the Unworn Maurice Lacroix Aikon Chronograph?
Integrated Bracelet, Screw-Down Pushers, Valjoux Architecture — at This Price
The value proposition of the unworn Aikon Automatic Chronograph AI6038-TT03F-330-1 is specific and concrete: a Valjoux 7750-based manufacture chronograph, a proper integrated titanium bracelet produced in-house in Saignelégier, screw-down chronograph pushers, the Easy Change strap system, and complete original delivery accessories — at a price that rewards practical thinking over badge recognition. Current retail on the titanium Aikon Chronograph sits above this listing; an unworn example with full delivery and the additional rubber strap represents a clean opportunity to acquire the watch on better terms.
The Aikon Against the Waiting-List Alternatives
Against contemporary 44mm Swiss chronographs at retail — and against the waiting-list and secondary-market premium reality of the Royal Oak Chronograph and the Overseas Chronograph — the unworn Aikon Chronograph offers immediate availability of a properly specified integrated-bracelet sport chronograph from a manufacture that makes its own cases and bracelets. For the buyer who has decided what it is they actually want, that combination is straightforward.
Available at Black Tag Watches — Aventura, Florida
Black Tag Watches is a luxury watch specialist based in Aventura, FL, offering new and pre-owned Swiss timepieces from Maurice Lacroix and the world’s leading manufactures.
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