Corum Golden Bridge Automatic Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Feb 5th 2011 at 12:01PM

Now here is a watch I didn't see coming. Corum's interesting and iconic Golden Bridge watch that features a long and thin mechanical movement now comes in an automatic version. The nature of the concept needed something different than the ordinary half-circle style automatic rotor. So Corum uses a linear moving weight as an automatic winding mechanism. As you can see through the back of the watch, the platinum weight moves up and down as opposed to around in a circle. This "linear moving weight" concept is not new, but rarely used. It is part of the new Corum calibre CO313 movement that has 18k gold plates, guilloche machine engraved decoration, and shows just the time.

As in existing Golden Bridge models, the movement is more or less suspended in the tonneau style case. For the automatic the watch is a bit larger (thankfully) being 37.2mm wide by 51.8mm tall. You can get the case in 18k red gold or 18k white gold. The crown is located at the bottom of the case. One funny issue with the watch is that Corum doesn't do the greatest job on the face of the watch in helping you determine which is the top and which is the bottom of the case. The watch is however surprisingly comfy on the wrist. I would personally consider this a men's watch, but I could also see women wearing it. The new Golden Bridge Automatic watch comes on a black crocodile strap.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: automatic, corum, golden bridge, watch, watches

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Richard Stancik Feb 8th 2011 6:19PM

I did a video of this watch on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJgRy1wvLMw

And I posted on my blog too about some the details at http://watchurself.com/corumgoldenbridge-shakeweight/ I do a tongue-in-cheek comparison to the "shakeweight"

Very cool. I wonder what the price will be?