Biel/Bienne based Omega Watches today announced that Adrian Buchmann and the Christopher Ward design team have won the prestigious Omega “Inspiring Design Greatness” award. Avril de Poisson, spokesperson for Omega, said that this heretofore unknown award is given annually to an Omega employee who has helped define Omega’s design in a given year. This is the first time that this award has been given to an outside design team, she commented. However, Omega feels that the 2021 novelties and other watches are so strongly influenced by Christopher Ward’s designs that the award had to be given to Adrian and his team in Maidenhead.
The award cites the following Christopher Ward watches as being particularly influential:
The C60 Trident Pro has clearly defined the white dial black ceramic dive watch since 2015 with the C60 Trident Pro COSC LE SH21 and the design is now so classic that Seamaster 300M needed its own version.
C60 v Seamaster by Mark Wheeler, on FlickrMs. Lirpo Loaf, spokesperson for Christopher Ward, said “This is a real coup for us. Honestly we’re surprised that Bark & Jack haven’t made a video accusing us of copying Omega even when our design first came out in 2014 with the SH21 LE.”
The Seamaster Black Black is the new “Stealthmaster” and borrows design cues from the C60 Abyss. The menacing and unreadable dive watches pioneered by Christopher Ward are favourites around the office in Biel and we couldn’t resist creating our own version.
abyss v black by Mark Wheeler, on FlickrAnd finally the De VillE Trésor power reserve borrows heavily from the concept of the Christopher Ward C1000 Typhoon. “Of course we didn’t go with a chronograph but the two sub dials and logo at 3 o’clock of the Christopher Ward inspired this amazing novelty for 2021” gushed Ms. de Poisson.
C1000 v Tresor by Mark Wheeler, on FlickrThe design team at Christopher Ward will receive a “Travail clock” to put on the wall of their office to help inspire them to even greater design heights. Ms. Loaf said, “We are surprised and delighted that Omega have recognized the contributions we have made to their watch designs over the years. We look forward to putting the Travail clock up on our office wall. Of course any similarities between our C65 range and the Oris Divers Sixty five range are purely coincidental.”
Dateline April 1st, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland - Valid before noon only.
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