Introducing the Bravur Geography Series, a Minimalist GMT from Sweden
Since arriving on the scene in 2011, Bravur has carved out a well-deserved niche for its own brand of clean Scandinavian design. The Swedish firm is looking to expand that niche with its newest offering, the Geography series GMT. The GMT complication is a first for the brand, and the overall design is crisp, confident, and very much Bravur.
GMTs can often feel cluttered or over-designed, but the Geography manages to seamlessly integrate the complication without sacrificing any legibility. The overall package is a mix of unique cues and previous Bravur elements, including the skeletonized hands from the BW003 along with applied Arabic and baton indices from the BW001 and BW002. These borrowed elements are housed in a slim, 39-millimeter case design and arranged on two different bespoke dials for the Geography series.Â
These two dial colorways?silver/white and sapphire blue sunburst?provide completely different tones for the watch. The silver/white is by far the more traditionally minimal of the two. Far from being soulless, however, this colorway is fun and dynamic courtesy of a silvery metallic contrasting finish for the inner dial and index ring, and the skeletonized syringe GMT hand and 24-hour index rendered in a vivid robin?s egg blue. It?s a color that?s distinct without being shouty or overbearing, pairing well with the airy, clean design ethos of the Geography.Â
The blue dial, on the other hand, comes off as far more luxe. The terraced layering o...
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