Corum Classical Grande Date Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/corum The 42mm stainless steel Corum Classical Grande Date offers an equal helping of avant garde audacity and traditional elegance. With a unique articulated-lug system that can reorient the watch on one's wrist and a dial evocative of Art Nouveau, this is dress watch for collectors with open minds and eyes for high style. Corum of La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland is a watchmaker known for pushing the limits of precedent and convention. The company's catalog of innovations includes watches crafted from gold coins, watch dials adorned with peacock feathers, and the gossamer "Golden Bridge" linear movement. Not content to lead by style alone, Corum also innovates in the packaging of its watches. The Corum Classical Grande Date takes this concept to an unprecedented realm: sliding lugs. On the wrist, the Corum Classical can be reoriented so that the lugs clear the wrist bone with ease; those who simply prefer to view their dials at a more accommodating angle (think Vacheron Constantin American 1919/1921). The junction between the lugs and the case imparts extreme confidence; it moves with smoothly damped action that exudes quality. Assembly tolerances are beyond reproach, and the seam of the sliding mechanism is too narrow to accommodate even a stray human hair. Corum equips the Classical Grande Date with a dial that pay tribute to the artistic heritage of its Chaux de Fonds home. The Swiss town is the birthplace of celebrated modernist ar