Christopher Ward plants their Caliber SH21, in-house chronometer movement into their most bodacious diver’s watch offering yet.
CW’s designers have teamed up with some of Switzerland’s finest watchmaking specialists to create a 210-piece Limited Edition diver’s watch whose sole purpose is to showcase said caliber which it does to great effect.
Introducing the new C60 Concept dive watch from Christopher Ward, a modern mechanical marvel with a high-tech, brightly glowing party piece that’ll keep things illuminated even when the lights are out.
CW has brought the best of haute horology together with an open work design that draws you right into the heart of Caliber SH21. And thanks to its Titanium case construction it’s also the toughest, lightest and most corrosion-resistant SH21 diver’s watch to date.
The movement is fully exposed front, back and center and is mounted on a skeletonized base plate and bridges for your visual delectation.
This high level of finishing typically reserved for only the most expensive luxury timepieces is rarely seen on functioning professional diver’s watch.
For example the chamfered edges of its bridges were painstakingly hand-polished for six hours by white-coated, loupe wearing lab technicians at conceptual horologists, Chronode.
Meanwhile, the SH21’s twin-barreled architecture provides an impressive 120 hours AKA five-days of autonomy. As a certified chronometer, it’s in the top six percent of all Swiss watches in terms of mechanical accuracy.
However the limelight is all but stolen by that . . . wait for it, folks . . . big f#ck off (sorry it has to be said correctly) floating 3D orange triangle at 12 o’clock – this wonderfully absurd obtrusion is made of –
Globolight XP©, a ground-breaking luminous ceramic material, created by Xenoprint that is so good you’ll want to sprinkle some on your breakfast cereal every morning.
In watchmaking it is used for everything from the luminous 12hr dots on bezels and luminous crown sleeves to hands and indexes.
And for anyone looking to add a little pizzazz to an openwork case; even movement components such as bridges have been made from it.
More luminous material of a different kind can be found on CW’s trident handset which is said to have been deep-filled, Chicago pizza-style with a generous helping of Super-LumiNova©.
Finally the C60 Concept with its beautifully sculpted case profile retains all the robustness required of a professional dive watch and is water-resistant to 300m.
Presented on an blue and orange textile and rubber, hybrid strap, the C60 Concept is available from CW’s online to for pre-order with an MSRP in the UK of £3,495 or approx. 4’780USD.
Thoughts? This is a lot of watch for the money; everything has been masterfully finished creating a tantalizing finished product that is hard to deny.
Would I actually buy one? Probably not as I’m a man of simpler tastes but I’m in awe and I hope to see more adopters of Globolight XP in the future, but what do you think?
Love it! I'd be in around $3000 US.
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