Christopher Ward C65 Aquitaine GMT White Sand Blue C65-41AGM2-S0BE1-B0

Cross the planet in style with Aquitaine’s dual-timezone version, a GMT watch of rare beauty and easy utility, pairing Sellita’s exceptional new SW330-2 movement with a striking colour scheme and gorgeous sapphire bezel.

It’s little wonder that the GMT function has become one of the most popular and useful complications you can add to a sports watch. The Aquitaine GMT pairs Sellita’s much-admired SW330-2 movement – already used to great acclaim in the C63 Sealander GMT – with the C65’s gloriously understated retro looks, to make for the perfect travel companion.

GMT watches began with the Rolex GMT-Master of the mid-’50s, commissioned by Pan Am – then America’s largest international airline – at the beginning of the Jet Age, and intended to grace the pilots of their new Boeing 707 jetliners. Now they could keep track of both local time and GMT time – taken from a stripe on the ground at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which marked the ‘Mean Time’ against which all Earth’s time zones were compared – simultaneously, vital for preventing potentially catastrophic confusion in the skies.

Naturally, these watches soon filtered through to the back of the plane too: not only were they immensely glamorous, branding you as a bold world traveller who crossed time meridians on the regular, but they were useful for anyone away from home.

Plus, of course, they looked great.

GMT complications are still glamorous and offer great utility, though the classic red-blue ‘Pepsi’ look is no longer de rigeur. The Aquitaine GMT is a case in point, its eye-catching GMT hand boasting a bold, blue arrowhead tip, while its contrasting bezel-and-dial combination is rendered in the cool combination of White Sand and Marine Blue.

Though it boasts undeniably classical, sophisticated 1950s style, not least thanks to its curved box sapphire crystal and domed sapphire bezel, Aquitaine GMT is every inch the modern sports watch beneath the hood: amongst its many innovations, for instance, is Dry Marshal, a safety indicator to remind you to tighten up the watch’s screw-down crown before you take it near the water.

Reference: C65-41AGM2-S0BE1-B0

Dated: 2024

MSRP: $1840

Bracelet: Bander Steel Bracelet and CW Rubber and CW Leather

Case Size: 41mm x 12.7mm thickness x 46.68mm lug to lug - Stainless Steel

Lug Width: 22mm

Dial: White Sand

Bezel: Sapphire Bezel

Movement: Sellita SW330-2 - Automatic

Functions: Hours, Minutes, Seconds, GMT, Date

Box and Papers: Inner/outer boxes, and warranty card

Crystal: Sapphire

Bracelet size: 7.5”

Case has light normal wear with nothing notable. Bracelet has minimal light wear. Dial, hands, and crystal have no wear.