The latest release from Christopher Ward is among their most ambitious, a fully skeletonized dive watch with a five day power reserve that has been finished in a style meant to evoke some of the most well regarded brands in contemporary independent watchmaking. The C60 Concept takes Christopher Ward?s in-house-designed SH21 base caliber and, essentially, blows it up, putting it on full view from both the front and the rear, while simultaneously pushing the limits of the the movement?s performance, which has now been featured in one form or another in a total of 21 references. Importantly, it?s also been produced over 8,000 times, as Christopher Ward is proud to tell their customers, a statistic that bolsters the reliability of the caliber, and should breed confidence among the CW curious. 
The theme of the C60 Concept seems to be bringing the concept of haute horlogerie down to earth a bit, and exploring what can be done to emulate the sometimes avant-garde movement finishing techniques used in the highest end of the independent sphere to a more approachable, consumer friendly package. To do this, Christopher Ward has once again partnered with Armin Strom on the design of the skeletonization of this flavor of the SH21, a brand that they first collaborated with on the equally daring C60 Apex back in 2019. Finishing of the SH21 is handled by Chronode SA, a Swiss movement maker founded by watchmaker Jean-François Mojon that typically specializes in exotic complic...