It was only a week or so ago that we looked at Ball’s Engineer Master II Diver WORLDTIME, now here’s another model belonging to that rare sub-category of dive watches, world-timers.
Inspired by the emergence of long-distance air travel during the 60s, the new C65 GMT Worldtimer harkens back to those pioneering early days of sport-diving and supersonic travel.
It is also the first CW to feature both a GMT and world-timer function, giving the brand’s classic diver the ultimate tool aesthetic.
Surrounding its yellow and white framed black dial is an eye-catching world-timer bezel.
From London to S. Georgia (the British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, that is not the south of the Peach State!) and everything in-between –
the C65 also connects its wearer with 24 of the World’s cities. These can be read in conjunction with a prominent yellow arrow-head GMT hand.
The watch’s 42mm (43mm inlc. bezel.) case is water-resistant to 150m and comes with a screw-down crown and case-back and a domed Sapphire crystal.
Housed inside is a Sellita SW330 automatic movement with dual-time functionality allowing for the time to be told in two simultaneous time-zones.
From fully wound, the SW330 provides 42hrs of autonomy, while vibrating at a rate of eight times per second (28,800 times an hour).
MSRP in the UK is just shy of a thousand pounds.
Thoughts? The nerd appeal has been fully dialed upped on this C65. While it remains faithful to the vintage diving genre, it has plenty of geeky charm with the inclusion of the world-time bezel;
I don’t need one, but I kinda’ want one. This or the BALL???
The BALL watch is very nice.
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