Corum Bubble Automatic Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/corum The Corum Bubble. You either love it or loathe it. But do you really understand it? Born from the mind of late Corum owner Severin Wunderman, the Bubble might be the most distinctive luxury watch design of all time. More than a novelty, the 44mm stainless steel Corum Bubble is the epitome of the luxury watch ideal: a timepiece designed exclusively for enjoyment. If the Corum Bubble seems impossibly familiar to collectors otherwise unversed in the Chaux-de-Fonds brand, there's a logical reason. Inspired by the towering acrylic crystal of the 1950s Rolex Deep Sea Special, Wunderman in 2000 designed a watch that reproduced the extreme aesthetic of the Rolex "Challenger Deep" dive watch using modern sapphire crystal. Taller than loaded Longhorn Burger at the Texas State Fair, the 19mm thick Corum Bubble can attribute all but 7mm of that girth to its crystal alone. While most sapphire crystals fail to achieve the charming refraction and optical distortion effects of vintage acrylic, the extreme camber and thickness of the Bubble's er, "bubble," creates wild illusions and reflections when viewed off-center. Highly oblique angles aside, the Corum Bubble is a supremely legible watch in bright, low, or no-light conditions. The crystal acts as a monster magnifying glass that obviates the need for reading glasses. Huge dot hour indices and applied Arabic numerals yield clarity and ease that put a Rolex Submariner to shame and can give even