Christopher Ward C65 Aquitaine GMT User guide

C65 Aquitaine GMT
Owner’s Handbook

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Time on your side
Your Christopher Ward watch has been designed in Britain
and engineered in Switzerland by highly talented craftspeople.
This ensures not only accurate and precise timekeeping, but also
brings a real pride of ownership that only watches of the highest
quality standards can hope to deliver.
You have made an investment, a good one, and the aim of this
manual is to help you make the most of that investment in what
we hope will be a lifetime of ownership.
Mike France
CEO & co-founder

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The Aquitaine collection
The C65 Collection began as an homage to the golden age of dive
watches.
Now it’s reborn as the Gallic-inspired C65 Aquitaine: a radically
redesigned and upgraded retro dive watch – with a curved sapphire
bezel that’s as elegant as it is tough.
Aquitaine is an historic French coastal region home to Bordeaux
and its wines, and – most pertinently – undersea explorer Jacques
Cousteau.
While the Aquitaine’s looks are vintage, its engineering and build
quality are anything but. Water-resistance is up from 150m to
200m. There’s also a new open case back, revealing a self-winding
Sellita movement with a higher degree of nishing than before.
And most noticeable of all, the bezel now has a curved and highly
polished sapphire insert. It catches the light wonderfully and allows
our watchmakers to make more eective use of colour than with
steel or ceramic.
The Aquitaine is such a step up from the rst C65, it’s like it’s
jumped four generations in one go. This is a grown-up timepiece
that’s both undeniably retro and absolutely modern. A watch you’ll
treasure for years to come.

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C65 Aquitaine GMT
Congratulations on the purchase of your C65 Aquitaine GMT.
It’s often said that once you own a GMT, it’s hard to go back to a
regular three-handed timepiece. And that’s particularly true of the
C65 Aquitaine GMT.
Like all GMTs, it traces its history back to the 1950s when long-distance
pilots needed a watch that could tell the time in the city they’d landed
in and measure the time back home.
But the C65 Aquitaine GMT is so much more than a watchmaking
history lesson: this is a thoroughly modern timepiece that uses
techniques and materials almost unheard of in the mid-20th century.
Like the other watches in the Aquitaine Collection, it carries a
see-through sapphire bezel that’s 50 percent harder than ceramic.
Meanwhile, the GMT hand boasts a bold, blue arrowhead tip that
contrasts beautifully with the White Sand dial.
Any great watch needs a great movement. And providing accurate,
reliable timekeeping is Sellita’s 25-jewel SW330-2 calibre. Not only
does it give you dual timekeeping but also boasts a generous 56-
hour power reserve.
Of course, while it’s wise to know your watch’s essential features,
the only way to truly understand is to take it out into the world –
and see where it leads you.

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How to operate your C65 Aquitaine GMT
Crown
Date Window
Minute Hand
GMT Hand
Hour Hand
Seconds Hand
Bezel
Your C65 Aquitaine GMT has a maximum power reserve of up
to 56 hours when fully wound. To re-power the watch after a
period of non-use, simply wind the crown for approximately
20 revolutions. Normal wearing will very quickly allow the rotor
to start re-powering the watch over time after putting it on
your wrist.
Display and controls

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Features
• Swiss made
• Self-winding 25 jewel mechanical
movement
• Up to 56-hour power reserve
• GMT complication
• Date calendar
• Central hacking seconds hand
• Anti-shock system
• Twin-ag engraving over ‘Colimaçoné’
nish on the rotor
• Elaboré ‘Colimaçoné’ nish on the
movement
• Bidirectional stainless steel bezel with
Sapphire insert (with luminous triangle
and numbers)
• Super-LumiNova®Grade X1 hands
and indexes
• Diamond polished hands and indexes
• Signature Trident counter-balance on
seconds hand
• Brushed and polished Light-catcher™
steel case
• Anti-reective sapphire crystal
• Screw-down display caseback
• Embossed screw-down crown
• Unique engraved serial number
• Eco-friendly luxury presentation case and
owner’s handbook

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Technical Information
Calibre Sellita SW330-2
Case Stainless steel
Diameter 41mm
Height 12.7mm
Lug to lug 46.7mm
Weight 70g
Water resistance 20 ATM (200 metres)
Vibrations 28,800 per hour (4Hz)
Timing tolerance -20/+20 seconds per day
Strap width 22mm