As you may or may not be aware, the Concorde airplane made it’s first flight all the way back in 1969, and was an amazing piece of technology. The Concord Watch company, on the other hand, traces their roots all the way back to 1908. More specifically, though, a model released in 1969 was brought to my attention by my lovely wife.
Concord moved from a relative stalwart to one of the hippest watch brands on the planet. They’re new lines got a little too wonky for me but I’m actually quite interested by this new model, the C1 Code. It’s basically a standard chrono, nothing special, but it has a code engraved on it that suggests this bugger may have come from outer space in the pouch of a leatherhead.
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WatchLuxus went all BLORP on the C1 QuantumGravity press release and sent us some huge pictures of this amazing and strange watch. While the release itself is pure jibberish (“An aerial bi-axial tourbillon mechanism. A vertical power reserve. Individualist seconds. A stripped-down dial and spectacular volumes: the latest specimen from the C Lab Series defies all theories.”) the watch is actually very cool. One thin we didn’t notice when we talked about it last? It has a freaking vertical power reserve that uses glowing green liquid to show how much energy is stored in the spring.
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