Christopher Ward Launches New Built-in Watch, The Twelve

Every of the fabric choices make the most of Sellita computerized actions, with the metal getting an SW200 rated to +/- 20 seconds per day, whereas the titanium will get an SW300 COSC unit, which brings that tolerance to -4/+6 seconds per day. Every set their date complication at 6 o’clock on the dial, with a disc that’s been coloration matched to the dial. Impressively, they’ve managed to make use of an exhibition caseback right here on each choices and nonetheless preserve the thickness to an absolute minimal.

Stepping again to soak up the watch as an entire, there’s clear inspiration right here from the model’s referenced within the press supplies, however there’s one which’s not, which I occur to search out probably the most similarities to, and that’s the Czapek Antarctique Passage de Drake. That watch contains a dial texture, and even colorways, that learn very equally to what Christopher Ward has performed with The Twelve, and whereas that’s not essentially a foul factor, I’d enterprise to say {that a} totally different texture fashion or colorways would have created some welcome distance between the 2. In fact, the Czapek is north of $20k and never precisely simple to search out, so all in all not the top of the world, however I don’t assume it wanted to be leaned into as carefully because it has been. 

None of this to say that The Twelve is a foul wanting watch, it definitely just isn’t. The dial texture that reads near barleycorn from a distance, is definitely a small cross part that’s been raised out of the dial barely, permitting for gentle to play between the peaks and valleys. It’s a stunning impact in pictures, if a contact on the aggressive facet, which successfully wrests the focus away from the angular case.