Christopher Ward doesn’t do luxury. Tool watches, yes. Innovative complications, of course. Value for money, most certainly. But luxury – with its show-off implications and forced scarcity – we’ve largely shied away from. If we were to approach this world at all, it would be on our own terms. Well, we did. And here’s the result. The Twelve is our first integrated bracelet sports watch since the C20 Lido of 2008, and represents a new peak for Christopher Ward. Combining reassuringly beefy build quality with a sleek fit and finish, it brings five-figure quality levels into the real world, making its home in that ever-widening gap between the strictly dressy and the purely sporty. A place, after all, where most of us live our lives.

Sometimes it pays to listen to your customers. Especially if they’re Christopher Ward customers. Take the gorgeous Twelve 38mm. When our fans demanded a 38mm version of our integrated sports watch, we realised they had a point – and set the production wheels in motion. The result is a watch that doesn’t just look great on every size of wrist, but also comes in a colour previously unseen in the Twelve Collection – Midnight Sun – as well as three existing shades. As with the rest of the Twelve line, the 38mm case boasts a bezel finished three ways, a tapered integrated bracelet and an anti-shock Sellita SW200-1 automatic movement you can, well, set your watch by.