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Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime

April 23, 2011 by Evgueni MatoussevitchFiled Under: Swiss Brands

Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime

The new GMT-capable Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime has its day/night indicator painted in the shape of a blue moon crest. Like the Japanese Katana sword, it is mesmerizingly beautiful in its laconic simplicity.

The Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime is powered by the standard ETA 2893-2 automatic caliber, which is actually a good old ETA 2892 base movement with an added GMT module.

If you still worry about the quality of the movement, consider this: the same engine used in much more expensive Linde Werdelin 3-Timer GMT and (in its Top grade) in the Breitling Colt GMT + diver. That says something, doesn’t it?

Designed to be worn with formal attire, the Cotton Club Worldtime is presented in a compact stainless steel case.

 Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime

Only 38.5 mm in diameter, it can be considered small by today’s megalomaniacal standards, but that is the size many people still actually expect from a dressy, no fuss, classic-styled watch.

The choice of the movement that comes without any modifications, but is decorated with the well-known Cotes de Geneve motif and traditional blued screws, dictates the dial layout.

As you can see from the photo, the gadget comes equipped with two hour-hands.

Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime (front view)

Although there exists a set of more elegant (and much more expensive) solutions to the problem of displaying time in two (or more) different time zones, the one with a pair of the hour hands still looks the most widely used by the established brands.

The first hand, the sword-shaped one, displays time in the main time zone in a usual 12-hour format.

The secondary hour hand, thin and arrow-shaped, runs around a 24-hour chapter ring telling the time in a military format. The night time is indicated with a blue moon crest painted over a silvered background: a nice, simple, and elegant design.

It also must be noted that the main hour and minute hands, as well as the indexes on the minute track, are filled with a generous amount of some luminous substance, so there will be no problem with night-time legibility.

As far as I understood, the watch will be offered at a price below €1000.

Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime (detail, blue cabochon, setting crown)

However, it doesn’t look like an average “affordable” timepiece where you can see with your bare eyes all those little details were the brand owner and the contract manufacturer saved a penny or two.

In fact, it looks sober and refined with its mirror-polished bezel, applied and polished Arabic numerals and an inevitable (at least for the Auguste Reymond Cotton Club series) blue cabochon adorning the oversized onion-shaped setting crown.

The only thing that somewhat spoils the great impression is the crocodile-patterned blue leather strap. With its rough contrast stitching, it just screams cost-cutting.

Well, you can always exchange the stock strap for a more expensive third-party job.

See also: Louis Moinet Geograph Limited Edition

Photos: Auguste Reymond

Auguste Reymond Cotton Club Worldtime specification

Movement: Automatic, Caliber ETA 2893-2, 21 jewels, 28,800 vph, Swiss Made
Movement decoration: Cotes de Geneve stripes, blued screws
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, second time-zone (GMT)
Power reserve: 42 hours
Case: Stainless steel, polished
Shape: Round
Size: 38.50 mm
Dial: Blue lacquered and silver-toned
Numerals: Arabic, applied
Hands: Sword-shaped
Water resistance: 50 meters
Strap: Crocodile-patterned blue leather strap with steel buckle
Crystal: Sapphire
Back: Transparent

Evgueni Matoussevitch

Yep, this is me. Just had my beard trimmed.

I am a founding father of this weblog since 2008.

Bought my first mechanical watch in 1986 and it took me ten more years to realize that I have a problem: at some point in time watches became my passion. Well, it could be worse.

 

Tagged With: 38 mm, 50 m, ETA 2893, GMT

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