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【F】 Hands-On Review: The CIGA Design Blue Planet

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Again, its 46mm width doesn’t compromise wearing comfort or practicality, but it does have a big visual presence. In other words, although it’s far from the brashest design you can find in watches, you need either the mood or the overall personality to wear a Ciga Blue Planet. Unfortunately, the Blue Planet only has a water resistance of 3 ATM. I would love to see what the sapphire crystal over the globe looks like underwater, but not at the expense of the watch’s functionality. In the arenas it’s best worn in, this level of water resistance is plenty. The soft curve of the case and supple rubber strap definitely place it on the more comfortable end of the spectrum as watches go.

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This means that you get a book-like box in which the watch, strap, and bracelet are placed. It’s not only fun and original, but also needs less space in storage. With the original Blue Planet being already so good that it impressed the jury of the GPHG, this Gilding Edition takes the unique design of the watch to an even higher level. An impressive creation by CIGA Design and a great promise for the future. This kind of approach to creating something new, that nobody has ever done before is exactly the kind of fresh air I feel the industry needs.

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CIGA Design teamed up with Sea-Gull Movements, a Tianjin-based movement manufacturer. So technically speaking, the Blue Planet movement is self-designed and I wouldn’t fault anyone for calling it “In House” to some extent. Work with our award-winning creative services studio and advertising agency to bring your brand or product story to life.

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The beauty of this way of telling time is also that there is an entire domed central segment to play with. Like with the Blue Planet, did CIGA Design opt again to look at Earth from space and micro-carve the continents and its mountains. The big difference is that it kept the oceans as black as the case and hand-applied 24-karat gold to the landmass.

It almost doesn’t look like a watch

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CIGA Design is not a traditional watchmaking company but more a design studio that happens to create and sell watches. The company was founded in 2016 by Zhang Jianmin and is located in Shenzhen, China. Mr Zhang Jianmin is not a watchmaker but an industrial designer by trade and education. Prior to his watchmaking adventures, he worked as a graphic designer of guidance systems in public areas (airports, train stations, public roads etc.). Under the name of CIGA Design, Zhang Jianmin works with a team of eight international designers to create very original watches, with the Blue Planet being the stand-out creation to date. In just a few short years, CIGA Design has won multiple highly praised international design awards, including the Red Dot Design Award and, of course, the GPHG Challenge Award in 2021.

Watches such as this are more about art than pragmatism, of course. The designers worked hard to get the aesthetic balance of elements just right — and did a pretty good job, in my opinion. However, making the numerals and indicator (here, the compass rose) stand out more would lend the watch not only usefulness but purpose.

What I received was a flat, wide box that looked like it might house a tablet. Inside was a book — an actual book — slipped inside a tasteful sleeve with “CIGA Design” and an embossed image of the Blue Planet’s dial on it. The first pages of the book reveal images of our planet and a poem about the magnificent phenomenon that is the existence of Earth and us on it. The second pair of pages is completely covered in the phrase “Mankind has only one Earth” translated into countless languages.

That being said, the Sea-Gull x CIGA Design movement, while technically unspecified does come with a pretty standard spec list. It carried 30 jewels with a 40-hour Power-Reserve and is visible through a sapphire caseback. It’s well-decorated, so it definitely gives the wearer something visually interesting to look at. And, yes, I know it’s fine for a watch to exist for its own sake. That said, I would’ve liked to have seen some sort of effort made towards actually affecting some good in the world on CIGA Design’s part beyond making such an Earth-centric watch.

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