Christopher Ward C60 Lumière - Budget Pelagos

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 The Specs
01:15 The Movement
01:45 Case thickness
02:22 Colour and strap options
02:41 Grade 2 vs. Grade 5 Titanium
03:27 Helium escape valve
04:27 The bracelet
05:03 The Pros
05:33 The Cons
06:15 Is it a Pelagos Killer?
06:47 Alternatives

[expertreviews]

Those raised hour markers and logo are amazing, adding lot of dimensionality to the dial! Love it...

[lordcharfield]

I love this….no date, no GMT, no mess on the dial! Beautiful in its simplicity.A pure watch and a ‘thing’ of beauty 😍

[RealWatchBrother]

This could be my favourite CW to date. They keep getting better and growing exponentially. But as I have a Tudor FXD, sadly can’t see it in my collection. However, I really like what they are doing, pushing boundaries and at a price that’s much more attainable.
Nice one Adrian, and well done Christopher Ward 👏

[shaunpatrick]

10.85mm thick. Hey Omega, are you watching!

[TheGrenadier]

The simplicity of that dial and handset is refreshing.

[LashondaBeesmer]

My watch was purchased 2 years ago from MAMACOO and, to this day, it still looks and runs as well as it did the day it arrived. That movement has never missed a beat despite never having been serviced. I can't complain about that.

[michaelN]

The helium escape valve is irrelevant to anyone just scuba diving. It’s intended for saturation divers who spend weeks in a high pressure chamber between dives to avoid the need to decompress. To prevent the risk of nitrogen narcosis the divers breath a mix of air where the nitrogen is replaced by helium. This helium is what the escape valve is intended to deal with and so prevent the build up of gas blowing the glass of the watch out during the assent decompression phase. Something like at anyway!

[rebolorto]

Adrian, regarding Helium and the famous escape valve, it is used by professional divers that are working under saturation in a diving turret, like in an oil rig. They are breathing a gas mix with Helium and that’s why Helium can go inside the watch. Indeed, a very few are in the situation to use an helium escape valve….for the common watch lover it’s more like the extra exhaust that you have on your sport car.

[UltraDoug]

Been looking for a dive watch (design purposes only) and I can’t believe that this CW just made the top of the list. Wasn’t expecting that.

[chateaubullion]

I learned long time ago if you have your eye on a particular watch you're not going to be satisfied with the second best, no matter how well-made the watch is.

[marsh]

I like it. For me the Pelagos 39 is a modern interpretation of the no date submariner and this CW is a modern take on the Pelagos in a way. I own a P39, I love it, it’s the perfect size and I love that the bezel sounds exactly like you’re cracking a safe. I’d never sell it. But I really like this CW I think it looks great.

[AkamShwan]

It is probably one of the best value for money watches out there! The only thing for me is that I like smaller watches. 41 mm, 48 lug to lug is not large by any means but I am hoping they release a 39 mm, 45-46 lug to lug version! I'd be happy to be the first buyer of that watch

[Freelancertehwin]

I think Christopher Ward continue to demonstrate how much value can be achieved in the more "budget" end of the pool. This watch is brilliant. In many ways it out competes the other three you mentioned, with the Aquaracer GMT being nice on the GMT front, but lacking a certain clarity of purpose.

I have a Trident Elite 1000. I love that watch to bits. It is an incredible value proposition. And I think that the Lumiere takes that foundation of titanium work, and combines it deftly with the lume technology they tried out with the C60 Concept years ago. The choice for a more understated colour way also serves it well.

It's clean, effective, and well made at price. I don't know what more you can reasonably ask.

[MichaelDavis-pqei]

Hi Adrian
This is what we are used to with C/W now. Not many other watch makers out there that are being put against Tudor and half the price. I'm so glad my collection is made of C/W and nothing else.😊

[williambireley]

I’m trying not to like this watch, because I don’t need a 3rd Trident in my collection. So far, I’m not succeeding. Great video as always, Adrian.

[ultramagnus]

Beautiful piece! I absolutely love it. And I actually do think it is a Pelagos killer. Terrific pick, this is 🤩

[kieranrobinson]

Your watch would only absorb helium in a dry pressurised mixed gas atmosphere where helium is present such as a Diving Bell or Decompression Chamber. If you’re not a Saturation Diver, a Helium Escape Valve is totally irrelevant and may even be another point of potential failure.

[irawolf]

Damn, you killed it with the production and editing of this video! Everything was tight and not a wasted second. I paused and replayed only to see the shot with all the watch colors. Well done!

[spence]

Absolutely love this watch. Love the three hand only/no date approach. Love that it is 41mm and thin.
The 3D love, logo and hands are great.
I did not think that I was in the market for another watch, but maybe I am...

[Chrissepisje]

Finally a modern design with tight looking hands, nice materials, decent movement, and splendid height. This is the first Christopher Ward i can unequivocally get behind. Nice. Thanks for this video.

That said, a Seiko SJE099 is my diver's watch. They are a refined alternative to every alternative you mentioned. Picked one up, rendered all my other diver's watches moot, so I got rid of them all.

Funnily enough this C Ward is a nice alternative to that Seiko.