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ral 3T WIS
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The announced "quartz grail" got here. I had this one on the radar for some time now and in my hands at an AD, so no big surprises. My impressions: Box: Nice wood box, with an exterior greenish painting varnish and a white leather-like interior. No millenary trees were harmed to do it, nor exotic/rare woods were used, though... Overall construction: This is a very well made big watch: no flaws in design and construction, it shows extreme attention to detail. Feels very solid. Case: Big case, although it is not 48mm as listed. Rather 45mm, which is good, as I believe 48mm is a bit on the "overwhelmingly large" side... Caseback is a killer. Crown and Pushers: Detail and design are at is peak here. See pic below. Ceramic covered crown (signed) and pushers, crown is very big, with a unique shape and with a gazillion turns to screw it down. Dial: Looks very clean for a chrono. Nice white dial with a well made pattern. It is said to be carbon fiber, but it does not look like it to me. Big date is a plus, and looks very nice on the top position with the chrono second hand on top. Bezel: Another highlight of the watch. Big, all ceramic, with carved and white paint filled numbers and marks. 6 steel screws are used on it, but not any screws. These are "Edox Logo" shaped, and they are even cooler than the already cool Hublot ones. Operation is really smooth, and another noticeable aspect of it is that it is so well balanced and leveled that, when cleaning the crystal with a cloth, it feels like there was all crystal and no bezel. Hands: Hands are pretty simple. They go well with the dial, but nothing special here. Bracelet: Unusually decorated, as the exterior links have are polished and the interior is brushed. Besides being very solid, the clasp is top notch, and it even has perlage on the interior of the scissors section, showing again extreme attention to detail. See pics. It does use push pins (wire style) and does not have half links, though. Lume: Lume is marginal to non-existent. Probably the weakest point of the watch. Tiny lume tips on the hands, even smaller and less bright 5 minute markers, lumed triangle at the bezel and that's about it. Besides the size, not particularly brigth. Well, someone could argue that Class 1 races are performed in sunny beaches with plenty of bikinis around, and not at night... Timing: Quartz... Pics:      
Last edited on Fri May 21st, 2010 08:06 am by ral |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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That is a nice looking watch. Congrats and enjoy. |
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chris s. 3T WIS 
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Congrats I've always liked the Class 1 |
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bigrustypig 3T WIS 
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That looks ok, Ral! I've seen that at the ADs here in Asia and it's a robust piece. The caseback looks great too. Enjoy it in good health.  |
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natevan70 3T WIS 
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Very nice ! Impressive detail work on the dial & even the clasp |
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Nabco 3T WIS 
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Very cool, really like the big date...CONGRATS  |
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Hammerfjord Moderator 
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This watch is a "Speed chrono" and offcourse, the lume is weak as most of those watches... I don't think that the lume of a cosmograph blow your head off... It's not a diving watch who needs high vision in trouble waters. Edox also made some limited serial chronos inspired by an offshore racing boat called : "Spirit of Norway" LE 388 pieces. http://www.swisstime.ch/pgs/rwi-pgs-prod-lgs-en-idp-1365.html Your watch is builded on the same way except that it's a tricompax(3.6.9)oriented chrono, quartz. See the offshore speed-boat propeller on your back case. So to resume: It's a water driving-sport chrono... Your dial got the same surface texture as some other Edox models told to be made of carbon-fiber: I don't think that Edox would risk to annonce that if it was in fact only a plastic designed surface. Edox is not Bernoulli... Also I think that carbon fiber don't need to look like the classical raw surface you mostly know: It can certainly be shaped, molded or printed in different ways...I'm not an expert in that, but just guessing. You got yourself a great sports quartz chrono of high quality: Get ready for the next boat racing in Dubai |
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froschd 3T WIS
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Nice design, love the back case fans! |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Ral, to answer your question in the daily wrist-show, I've never been looking inside my ML but most likely it should use the same type of quartz movement as your Edox... I know very little about quartz movements so maybe someone else around here could answer...  |
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yukiliu 3T WIS 
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very beautiful watch. congrats. |
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ndburley 3T WIS 
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Very nice!! |
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Paladin 3T WIS 
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Great lookin' chrono, Congrats! If nobody else has, I'll answer the movement question; I believe it is a Ronda Startech Caliber 5040.b |
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Gregger 3T WIS 
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IanM 3T WIS 
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Very beautiful and robust piece. Detail to the clasp is magnificent. IanM |
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ncvol17 3T WIS 
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absolutely love the detail on the arctic white dial. well done |
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