The C12 Loco

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Introducing The C12 Loco



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You can’t create a new movement for just one watch, they said. And you can’t sell an open balance for the price of a diver. We said, just watch us. They called us loco. We said, now there’s a name…

“It’s high-end watchmaking
at a most accessible price”

Beauty

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Balance

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Accuracy

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Power

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Beauty

Symmetry, the
true meaning of
beauty

If you’ve ever spent time looking – really, looking – at watch movements, you’ll know that simplicity and symmetry are the hardest things to achieve. Yet this was the mission for The C12 Loco, designed to hide immense complexity beneath the neatest, most linear of layouts.

Centring a brand-new movement that makes visual harmony its raison d'être, this is a watch that knows when to shout, and when to step back and allow its most subtle and beautiful details to shine. From the hand-polished bridges at the front of the movement to the balance wheel they frame, it’s a masterpiece of elegant, less-is-more design.
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Balance

Not something you
find, but you create

Few watches are as alive, as full of joie de vivre, as an open balance, and with The C12 Loco everything revolves around considered, intricate movement architecture that really allows the exposed balance wheel and hairspring to sing.

Created exclusively for Christopher Ward by the specialists at Feller Pivotages SA, our unique balance wheel is fresh, contemporary, visually striking, and utterly, enthrallingly bold.
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Power

Built for power

Meet CW-003, only our second-ever in-house movement, created specifically to power The C12 Loco.

As with its sister calibre, SH21, this brand-new movement features twin mainspring barrels for a remarkable power reserve. But that’s where the similarities end. Entirely redesigned and reconfigured, it places the barrels on top of each other in perfect alignment and – thanks to new, improved spring technology – actually provides an entire extra day of power over SH21, amounting to a full six days (or a mighty 144 hours).
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Accuracy

Supreme accuracy,
restrained elegance

The restrained elegance that’s The C12 Loco’s stock-in-trade demands just two hands, so this is one watch that could never be COSC certified – you’d need a seconds hand for that.

Even so, and just like SH21 before it, our new CW-003 movement operates close to chronometer margins anyway, making this amongst the most accurate of all Swiss mechanical watches

Every mechanical watch has a balance wheel, but not all balance wheels are created equal

It’s a masterpiece of elegant, less-is-more design

Freewheelin’ is the vibrant, intimate, no-
holds-barred story of the quest to create
our most ambitious watch to date

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