We have already reported about the Concord C1 QuantumGravity timepiece that will be officially launched at this year's edition of Baselworld. However, back when we first mentioned the watch, there weren't too many details available, as only the mechanism of the watch had been made public, but now, only one week until the Basel fair, C Lab Series have come out with a press release that gives a few more hints on the much talked about wrist watch.

Designed and developed by the C Lab Series, the C1 QuantumGravity symbolizes unrestricted and unconstrained time, where only impulse and intuition prevail. Initially devised in the fall of 2008, the C1 QuantumGravity was born after a five-month incubation period, nurtured by the will and tireless energy of a team that works on instinct alone.

 

The result: a new species of watch that lives time as if it were an experiment and space, a source of stimulation. The creation of the C1 QuantumGravity constitutes a provocative act in itself, while its construction is an exploration carried out at the brink of excess and defiance.

 

The three essential elements combined by the C Lab Series to create this astounding equation involving mechanics and chemistry were a cylindrical piston, a vertical back-and-forth movement and liquid. Traditional design and display codes have been demolished to make way for a mobile glass column, located between 12 and 1 o’clock, which serves as the power reserve with a vertical indicator. On the chemistry side of things, a liquid featuring green phosphorescent nanoparticles fills a tube to assist in the reading.

 

Meanwhile, on the mechanical side, this energy gauge operates perpendicularly to the caliber, rising up and down from its base to signal the remaining energy of the movement in relation to its available three-day power reserve. Its graduated outline corresponds to level indicators, which are secured to the inner surface of the watch.

 

The suspension mechanism is supported by an elastomeric self-tensing system, which enables the cable/arm hinge to be precisely adjusted and the dilatation effects, compensated. The build of this watch composed of 511 parts is also offset by an anatomy that privileges space and transparency: the case, whose machining required 400 hours of fine adjustment, can be reduced to a structure that is literally enveloped by 5 sapphire crystals. The mechanism is visible from all angles.

 

 

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