Concord C1 QuantumGravity with liquid green energy indicator looks great with your power ring

You're looking at the latest render of the Titanium Concord C1 QuantumGravity timepiece first spotted in January. A wristwatch due to be unveiled in a 10-unit, limited production run at the big Baselworld 2009 watch and jewelry show kicking off in 6 days. There's a ton of extraneous, nonsensical verbiage in the press release making the watch all but unknowable. Still, as far as we can tell, this mechanical watch features a novel tourbillon escapement that spins on two axis points... and liquid. Yes, liquid, containing "green phosphorescent nanoparticles" held in a vertical column as an indicator of the life remaining in the 3-day power reserve. As Concord describes it, the C1 QuantumGravity, "creates its own rules: emptiness is its core material, engineering its constancy; chemistry a dare and transparency a must." Whatevs word-hippie, just tell us where and when.

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[stridermt2k Posted Mar 20th 2009 8:07AM]

Super, another watch.

Very well, you may stand with the others...over there.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 8:28AM]

I'm bored of renders, I want to see the real deal... preferably on my wrist...

How exactly does one get on the list?

[coffeedragon Posted Mar 20th 2009 9:07AM]

Words can not express how badly I need to have this watch.

Words can express how many extra jobs I'll have to work to afford it.

Words can also express how quickly my wife will leave me if I buy it.

Man, do I need that watch.

[weirdo557 Posted Mar 20th 2009 7:35PM]

there are easier ways to get rid of your wife

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 9:31AM]

That is teh Hawt...
I have a thing for big watches. That thing puts my Casio Titanium Tough Solar Pathfinder to shame /cry

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 9:39AM]

Crap plastic band on ridiculously overengineered watch? I would rather see something novel and over the top here. Since emptiness is its core material, maybe they should pioneer a graviton-based watch retention system. Tractor beam that bitch to your wrist!

Of course it would actually be a bit of thumb-tack on the back of the watch, but still, imagine the conversations.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 9:42AM]

That clock-face in the render is only like some secondary clock, right? Surely they wouldnt make a watch face the size of a quarter with the actually clock the size of a dime..... Or would they?

BTW, ominous green beaker thingy, cleverly labeled "energy": very doom3ish...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 10:10AM]

What an ugly watch! No real watch collector would want that.
Gimme an IWC or a Lecoultre!!!!

[fhlh Posted Mar 20th 2009 10:08AM]

"Concord C1 QuantumGravity with liquid green energy indicator looks great with your power ring - If Apple would have made it, we would have jizzed in our pants"

yet another title fix...

[Interpol Posted Mar 20th 2009 10:16AM]

Absolutely beautiful if only for its uniqueness, but given the mechanical complications inside and its limited production run, this thing is going to cost more than a well optioned Ferrari.

I'll stick to simpler, less expensive watches like my Omega Planet Ocean.

[Shane Posted Mar 20th 2009 11:44AM]

Price? If you have to ask, you can't afford it...

[Dreamscape86 Posted Mar 20th 2009 12:12PM]

"Emptiness is its core material?" That's probably the most hilarious and nonsensical product-jargon I've ever heard.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 11:53PM]

It's a fancy watchmakers' way of saying it's big (22 mm thick) and has lots of sweet see-through spots for you to drool over the fine craftsmanship and exquisite detail, and you're going to have plenty of time for that since you managed to award yourself that $5m bonus package before driving your company into ruins and shortly thereafter making your quick getaway to the Bahamas.

But damn... green phosphorescent nanoparticles...

[omemshotmailcom Posted Mar 20th 2009 2:48PM]

My timepiece has a glowing yellow gravity fusion indicator.
I think it's due to run out in about 5 billion years.

[Cragger Posted Mar 20th 2009 3:20PM]

so wait, the watch runs out of juice in 3 days?

this is why i keep time with a cellphone. even if it runs out of juice, it automatically corrects the time...

[Juaquin Posted Mar 20th 2009 3:35PM]

It's not electrically powered. It's a real watch. You know, like before they figured out the whole piezoelectric phenomena, and watches ran on mechanical power? 3 days is pretty standard for a fully mechanical movement like that.

[marco916 Posted Mar 20th 2009 7:07PM]

When are the Hong Kong knock offs coming out????

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2009 2:56AM]

The Hong Kong knock off of this watch would probably give you radiation poisoning from their version of the "green" liquid

[technomania Posted Mar 21st 2009 6:27AM]

I know you're kidding (and being somewhat racist), but in the watch world having radioactive glowing paint on your watch is actually something people seek out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-powered_lighting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

People pay a lot of extra money to get radioactive paint on their watches.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 21st 2009 3:18PM]

i've been dreaming of the concord c1 big date for a while. so everyone has a frame of reference, the near entry level big date is about $9500 USD and the rose gold chrono is about $27K. this is probably a high teen $K time piece.