Hands-On With The New Christopher Ward C1 Worldglow
We don?t see many worldtimer watches released from small independent brands around here, and for good reason, they?re difficult to do well and aren?t exactly easy to understand for most buyers. The Zurich world time is a perennial favorite from Nomos, and is a rare example that works, but at over $6,000 it?s a stretch. Examples from Farer and Junghans spring to mind as value driven options that work in their own way. Today, Christopher Ward is presenting their take on the genre with the new C1 Worldglow, a watch that brings fresh take on the complication and turns our attention away from steel sport watches, if only for a moment. We?ll take it.
The C1 Worldglow is a continuation of a theme that Christopher Ward began with the C1 Moonglow from 2019. You can read Zach?s full review of that watch right here, and you?ll notice a few similarities straight away. Namely, the inventive use of lume throughout the dial as a means to compliment the functionality of the complication.Â
The C1 Worldglow gets a top-down projection of the globe set into the dial?s center with Europe and Asia on the 3 o?clock side, and North America on the 9 o?clock side. The negative space created by the land masses are occupied by a layer of lume underneath, giving the entire dial a unique presence in the dark thanks to the resulting luminosity. The world is represented along with the hands and numerals along the 24 hour ring, however the cities and rad tracking beam aren?t as visible so actu...
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