Yesterday, on Bangalore Watch Company’s instagram account, when co-founder Nirupesh Joshi mentioned that they had made an artefact from recovered carbon of the times we are living in, we knew something exceptional was coming. Revealed just now is the brand’s new Peninsula Carbon, featuring a forged carbon dial.
The watch has been launched in the brand’s Peninsula Professional collection, which debuted last year honouring the geographical diversity of India. The collection debuted with four watches inspired by the country’s landscapes. With the new carbon iteration, the brand is going a little extra this time.
What’s special about this carbon fibre is that the brand has developed a new proprietary material — ReforgeCarbon™, a fine carbon material made using recovered carbon from industrial waste that would otherwise be pollutants in the atmosphere, for which the watchmaker has collaborated with a Bangalore-based material science company, Carbon Craft.
This proprietary material featured on the dial is formed by compressing carbon fibres and recovered carbon black within a thermoset resin under high pressure, and therefore each dial is unique.
“For most of human history, we did not live in permanent settlements. But today, cities are the engines of economic growth and human ambition. The biggest consequence of this is carbon. Peninsula Carbon begins with that reality. It is not a sustainability argument, but a cultural statement. We have taken actual particulate matter and turned it into a precision object for our wrists,” says Nirupesh Joshi.
Moreover, the watch shares 44 mm pebble-shaped stainless steel case with a bezel-less design and a scratch-resistant superdome sapphire crystal of the collection. The dial aesthetics also remain the same, with 3D luminous hour markers in round, arrow, and baton shapes, while the markers at 3 and 9 feature a wave pattern and a tree icon symbolising the ocean and forests, respectively. What’s different is that, unlike traditional hour markers, the new Peninsula Carbon features a mock AQI meter, with numbers and colours graduating from 50 in green all the way to 500 in deep red.
Limited to 100 pieces, the watch is powered by a Swiss Sellita SW200-1 automatic movement with a 41-hour power reserve and is water-resistant up to 200 metres. A fluoro-elastomer high-density rubber strap completes the watch, and it retails for Rs. 2,83,000.
Images: Courtesy brand
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