Concord C2 Y-13

Concord has released a new chronograph in the C2 Y-13. Sounds like a fax machine rather then a watch. :) Anyway, the new watch is inspired by the underground techno-music movement and it shows on the dial and watch design. 

The watch is 43mm in diameter and is PVD gray. Within the stainless steel case, beats an ETA 2894-2 automatic mechanical movement. It is a hefty watch, coming in at 12.75 mm thick, with a 2mm thick sapphire crystal, offering a water resistant rating of 10 ATM. 

The dial, silver toned and glowing with electric green SuperLuminova (almost LED like) has a sub-dial at 3 o'clock that looks like a record or DJ table. The other sub-dials are the 30 minutes counter at 9 o'clock and a 12-hour counter at 6. The watch has the following complications, on top of time telling, date (at 6) and chronograph. 

I do like the design of the hour and minute hands. They are of the dauphine-type, asymmetrically hollowed out, rhodium and SuperLuminova hands. I also like the watch the strap is mounted to the watch case.

The C2 Y-13 watch.

All lit up...

Photographs: Concord

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Concord C2 Y-13

Concord C1 Black Spider

Concord has released a new watch named the Concord C1 Black Spider. The watch, a 25-piece limited edition, takes its name after the eight "legs" embedded in the 47 mm diameter titanium case. I have to say it looks good.

The C1 Black Spider was created in the C Lab, a research unit specializing in the development of avant-garde watches. The watch will be powered by a hand-wound hand-made 19-jewel C105 movement, which features a tourbillon escapement, visible through a skeletonized, arachnid-shaped base plate.

"The challenge was to imagine a new watch creation in which the case, and movement would be conceived as one complete whole, and in which the mechanism would echo the shape of an intimidating spider, suspended in it's case as if taming the void."

The movement has two cutouts, the one at the 6 o'clock displays the tourbillon while the one at the 12 o'clock gives us the view of the balance wheel that beats at 21,600 A/h.

Basic specifications: 


Functions: hours, minutes and tourbillon


Movement: Concord hand-wound mechanical caliber C105

Case: titanium, 47 mm diameter, 13.55 mm thick


Crystal: sapphire, 3.3 mm thick


Water resistant: 3 ATM

Photographs: Concord

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C1 Black Spider

Have a visit to the website. There a number of interesting videos on the watch and you can also see how the watch is manufactured.