TRIED & TESTED
“Well, I can tell you the C60 Trident Pro behaved perfectly. The bezel was easy to use and move in the water, and visibility of the watch was exactly what I expected it to be: perfect.”
For Nicolas, a diver’s watch must meet some obvious, but vital, criteria. It must be: waterproof; pressure-proof; easy to read; accurate; and reliable.
in the Egyptian Red Sea in April 2011 and has supplied Christopher Ward with some of the stunning photos that accompany this feature. It was the fourth Christopher Ward diver’s watch he had bought in less than 18 months. The first on his neoprene-clad wrist was a black-dialled C600, which he purchased in March 2010. The moderator of a French site for diver’s watches called, appropriately enough, Montres de Plongée (
www.forum-mdp.com), Nicolas read about Christopher Ward online and decided to give the C600 a try.
“I loved the look of the watch so I bought it in the black with green hands,” Nicolas recalls. “When it arrived, I really loved it. I dived with it in summer 2010 and it behaved very well,” he says with Gallic understatement. He promoted the watch on his MDP forum and received very positive feedback so he then chose a C60 Trident Pro with a black crocodile strap as a Christmas present to himself in 2010. He was so pleased with it that he photographed it on his Christmas tree. He was just as delighted with this model too: “It’s a tribute to the James Bond Rolex, of course.” In January 2011 the handsome C60 Trident Pro was given the direct opposite of a baptism of
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fire. With his usual diving buddy, the mono- named Mirza, and other pals from the MDP forum, Nicolas used a chainsaw to cut a large patch of ice from the frozen surface of Lac de Vonnes near the village of Chatel, close to the French-Swiss border, and dived in. As the air temperature was a painful -9° C (15° F), this cannot have been a relaxing experience, but as Nicolas says: “Warm or cold water, I don’t care!”
On the Christopher Ward forum, where he
is known as tartine.74, he wrote: “Well, I can tell you the watch behaved perfectly. The bezel was easy to use and move in the water, and visibility of the watch was exactly what I expected it to be: perfect. When I came out of water, it was covered with ice, but continued working fine.” Nicolas’ quartet of Christopher Ward diver’s watches is completed by a C60 GMT, which was ordered in March 2011 at the same time as the blue glory of the C600. He was so impressed by its performance that he ordered no fewer than 10 examples for his diving pals. All Nicolas’ Christopher Ward watches can expect to be well travelled as Nicolas has dived off Brittany and Brazil, in the Mediterranean
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