Chr. Ward C70 3527 GT Chronometer User guide

C70 3527 GT ChronomeTer
Limited edition
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Your Christopher Ward watch has been
designed and engineered by highly talented
craftspeople to ensure not only accurate and
precise timekeeping but also to bring a real
pride of ownership that only luxury items of the
highest quality can ever hope to deliver.
You have made an investment, a good one,
and the aim of this handbook is to help you
make the most of that investment during what
I hope will be a lifetime of ownership.
Christopher Ward
TIME ON YOUR SIDE...
CONTENTS
THE FERRARI 250 GTO 2–3
A PRECIOUS FRAGMENT OF
MOTORSPORT HISTORY 4–5
C70 3527 GT CHRONOMETER
LIMITED EDITION 6–7
TECHNICAL INFORMATION 8–9
THE COSC CERTIFIED CHRONOMETER 10–11
HOW TO OPERATE YOUR C70
CHRONOMETER 12–25
OUR WATCH CARE PROGRAMME 27
KEEPING IN TOUCH 28

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THE FERRARI 250 GTO
“It’s simply the greatest road-going Ferrari,
as well as a great racer”, says Ferrari
250 GTO owner and Pink Floyd drummer,
Nick Mason, “Like a good musical
instrument can turn a mediocre musician
into a good one, the 250 GTO makes a
bad driver good, a good driver great,
while a great driver can get the trophy
engraved without bothering to race,”
It’s a view that is obviously shared by the
unnamed buyer who paid Connecticut based
collector Paul Pappalardo $52 million dollars
for chassis #5111 GT in October 2013 – a world
record amount for a car – but for many, the
Ferrari 250 GTO is the greatest car ever built
and, as such, is priceless.
And yet, the world has the launch of the
Jaguar E-Type at the Geneva Motor Show
in 1961 to thank for the creation of the 250
GTO. Jaguar’s new GT had Enzo Ferrari all in
a dither and he insisted his senior engineer,
Giotto Bizzarrini, come up with something to
beat it. Ultimately, after a typical Ferrari in-ght
which saw Bizzarrini (as well as a few others)
red, another engineer, Mauro Forghieri and
designer Segio Scaglietti, completed the car
but it was Bizzarrini’s team who must take the
lion’s share of the credit.
Bizzarrini decided to modify the GTO’s
forerunner, the 250 SWB, by moving the
engine behind the front axle for better weight
distribution. His team then gave the 2953 cc
V12 engine a major massage, adding Testa
Rossa heads, larger valves and six double-barrel
Weber carburettors. The result was a car
with astonishing poise and power as well
as an engine tone, especially at 7000 rpm,
that has to be heard to be believed.
And then there are those voluptuous, Beyoncé
like curves, particularly across the bonnet
and wings. Is it any wonder that this is the car
most of the baby boomer generation grew up
lusting after?
The car’s racing pedigree is equally impressive.
Homologated (approved) by the FIA for the
Group 3 Grand Touring category, the 250 GTO
was one of the last successful front engine
racing cars. It nished second in its debut race,
the 12 hours of Sebring, in 1962 and, more
famously, won the International Championship
for GT Manufacturers in the three years, 1962 to
1964. Its place in history was now assured.

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A few years ago historian Christopher Bennett
acquired some fragile aluminium body panels
from a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO car during restoration
activities. Bennett’s London-based business,
TMB Art Metal, scrupulously salvages original
metals from very rare historic cars and aircraft
and recycles it into unique collectible artefacts,
such as cufinks made from the remnants of a
famous 1940 Battle of Britain Hurricane ghter.
When he approached Christopher Ward
Watches with an idea for a collaboration, the
motor racing fanatics at CW’s Maidenhead
HQ took little persuading.
The “donor” material used in our 100 piece
special limited edition chronometer originates
from chassis number 3527GT, the seventh
example built which left Ferrari’s Maranello
A PRECIOUS FRAGMENT
OF MOTORSPORT HISTORY
factory on 22nd May 1962 and now bears the
British registration “6 GTO”.
Following a change of ownership, 3527GT
underwent restoration in 2005/6 during which
a small quantity of excessively corroded or
damaged original exterior body panel sections
were removed. It is from this very material that
our master watchmaker, Johannes Jahnke,
has overseen the task of cutting the discs and
setting them beneath the nest museum-grade
sapphire crystal. Even the number 6 of the
registration plate has been carefully laser cut
to replicate its shape perfectly.
To own a GTO may be out of reach of most
of us but wearing a piece of this fabled car
within a ne Christopher Ward timepiece is a
pretty good alternative to spending upwards
of $50 million!
Left: The new owner of 3527GT was
keen that the car should remain as
original as possible and only small
sections of aluminium panelling were
removed, these being pieces deemed
beyond recovery and that if left in situ
would only deteriorate further.
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Top: The 3527GT heading
the grid – Monteray 1962
Middle L–R: The GTO’s body
panelling, separated from
chassis, is exposed pending
removal of terminally
damaged or corroded
sections.
A badly corroded and
poorly repaired section
of front wheel arch is
surgically removed
by skilled craftsmen.
Bottom L–R: This is the extent
of the original panelling
removed from 3527GT
during its restoration, only
a tiny percentage of the
total body shell.
6 GTO’s original chassis
plate, identifying it as
a 1962 vintage 3527GT.
Johannes Jahnke carefully
preparing the historic metal
to allow us to incorporate a
medallion into the backplate
of each of the 100 pieces of
the special limited edition.

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C70 3527 GT CHRONOMETER
LIMITED EDITION
In partnership with TMB Art Metal we are
proud to offer you the chance of owning
a small piece of one of the world’s most
iconic, and not to say valuable, cars –
the Ferrari 250 GTO.
Embedded behind museum-grade sapphire
crystal in the back-plate of this stunning
chronometer is an original piece of exterior
panelling from the seventh GTO (only 39 were
ever built), which left the Ferrari factory on
22nd May, 1962. The date is actually featured
in the watch’s tachymeter.
To understand the GTO’s importance in the
annals of automotive history, one needs only
to recall the world record $52 million spent by
an unnamed buyer in October 2013 to secure
chassis number 5111GT from Connecticut-
based collector Paul Pappalardo.
The chassis number of the C70’s car, 3527GT,
gives this strictly limited watch its nomenclature,
and this is indicated on the side of the case.
The traditional Ferrari colouring of the beautifully
executed dial serves as an impressive overture
for the back-plate of the watch. The piece
of original metal has been skillfully cut by
experts in Switzerland to allow the numeral 6
from the car’s number-plate to be shown in
glorious Rosso Corsa livery.

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To own a Ferrari 250 GTO is an impossible
dream for all but a handful of billionaire
collectors and ageing rock stars
(Nick Mason of Pink Floyd owns one);
but for a fortunate few, the dream can
be at least partially realised in owning
the C70 3527 GT.
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FEATURES
– Swiss made chronometer
– Worldwide limited edition of only 100 pieces
– Includes historic precious metal from the
seventh Ferrari 250 GTO in back-plate
– Thermo-compensated, 27 jewel, Swiss quartz
chronometer with COSC Certification
– Chronograph with split minutes/seconds/
tenth seconds
– Marine-grade stainless steel case
– Internal tachymeter bezel with Ferrari GTO-6
date markings
– Screw-in crown
– Museum-grade anti-reflective sapphire
crystal covering dial and GTO metal disc
on back-plate
– Water resistance 10 ATM
– Vintage Italian leather strap with Bader
deployment
– Individually engraved serial number
– Deluxe presentation case and special edition
owner’s handbook including certificate
of authenticity
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Diameter: 42mm
Height: 11.8mm
Weight: 80g
Calibre: ETA 251.233 COSC
Case: 316L stainless steel
Water Resistance: 10 ATM (100 metres)
Strap: 22mm Leather
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
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THE COSC CERTIFIED CHRONOMETER
To gain chronometer status, watchmakers
submit their Swiss movements to COSC,
an independent, non-profit making watch
accuracy verification organisation based
in Geneva, to be tested against the
international standards of ISO and DIN.
Certication follows exhaustive testing. In
achieving the coveted status of Certied
Chronometer, a movement must not only be
made from the highest quality components,
but also be the object of special care on
part of the nest horologists and technicians
as it is painstakingly assembled.
Only movements which meet the precision
criteria are granted an ofcial certicate.
Each uncased movement is individually
tested for fteen days, in ve positions,
at three different temperatures. Movements
are tted with a second hand for tests and
measurements are made daily with the aid of
cameras. Based on all of these measurements,
seven eliminatory criteria are calculated,
each of which must be met.
The exacting and rigorous nature of the
COSC certication process means that the
achievement of Certied Chronometer status
is extremely rare. In fact, of all the watches
produced in Switzerland each year, just 3%
bear the coveted COSC ‘bulletin de marche’
or certicate of watch performance. Which
is why, when you read the words ‘Certied
Chronometer’ on a Swiss watch you can be
sure that the movement behind the elegant
dial is a rare example of ne Swiss watchmaking
which is accurate, precise... and extremely rare.

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HOW TO OPERATE YOUR
C70 CHRONOMETER
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DISPLAY AND CONTROL BUTTONS
Push-button A
Crown
Push-button B
DISPLAY ELEMENTS CONTROL BUTTONS
Minute Hand
Tenths counter
60 Minute counter
Hour hand
Hour counter
60 Second counter
Seconds
Date Window

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SETTING THE TIME
For a superior water resistance your crown is
of the screw-in type. To get to position
1
turn
the crown anti-clockwise until it releases itself.
• Pull out the crown to position
3
(the
watch stops).
• Turn the crown until you reach the
correct time e.g. 08.45 hr.
• Push the crown back into position
1
and
screw the crown in a clockwise direction
in order to maintain water resistance.
The crown should sit flush to the case.
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• Pull out the crown to position
2
(the watch continues to run).
• Turn the crown clockwise, the hour
hand moves in one hour increments
until the correct date appears. The date
will change when the hour hand passes 12.
• Pull the crown to position
3
• Push the crown back into position
1
until flush with the case and screw in.
SETTING THE DATE (QUICK MODE)
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SETTING THE DATE/TIME
Example:
Date / time on the watch: 17th / 01.25 hr
Present date / time: 4th / 21.25 hr
• Pull out the crown to position
2
(the watch continues to run).
• Turn the crown clockwise until yesterday’s
date appears ie. 3rd.
Crown
Date
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• Pull out the crown to position
3
(the watch stops).
• Turn the crown clockwise until the correct date
ie. 4th appears (after passing through midnight).
• Continue to turn the crown until the correct
time 21.30 hr appears.
• Push the crown back into position
1
until flush
with the case and screw in.
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CHRONOGRAPH FUNCTIONS:
• The hour counter measures
12 hours per rotation.
• The minute counter measures
60 minutes per rotation.
• The centre stop-second measures
60 seconds per rotation.
• The 1⁄10 second counter measures
1 second per rotation.
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DISPLAY ELEMENTS
Tenths
60 Minute counter
Hour counter
60 Second counter
CONTROL BUTTONS
Push-button A
(Start / Stop)
Push-button B
(Reset)
PLEASE NOTE: Before using the chronograph
functions, please ensure that:
• The crown is in position
1
(screwed in).
• The 4 chronograph hands are at zero
position. Should this not be the case, the
positions of the hands must be adjusted
(see the chapter entitled ‘Adjusting the
chronograph hands to zero position’).

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BASIC FUNCTIONS
(START / STOP / RESET)
Example:
1
Start: Press push-button A.
2
Stop: to stop the timing, press push-button A
once more and read the 4 chronograph
counters: 4 min / 38 sec / 6⁄10 sec.
3
Zero positioning:
Press push-button B. (The 4 chronograph
hands will be reset to their zero positions).
Example of use:
Timing a runner over 100m.
Push-button B
Push-button A
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2
3