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Christopher Ward · Twelve

Christopher Ward The Twelve

Ref. C12-40ADA1-S00A0-B0 · Sport

$1,495Sold out

eBay sold ≈ $1,620 · 4 sold listings

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Case

Diameter
40mm
Thickness
9.95mm
Lug-to-lug
44.5mm
Lug width
25mm
Material
Stainless Steel
Finish
Brushed + Polished + Sandblasted
Water resistance
100m
Caseback
Solid screw-down

Crystal & dial

Crystal
Sapphire
Dial colour
Midnight Sun
Lume
SLN X1 BL C1

Movement

Caliber
Sellita SW200-1
Type
Automatic
Beat rate
4 vph
Power reserve
38h
Jewels
26
Hacking
No
Hand-winding
No
Complications
Date

Sellita

Sellita's flagship automatic movement and the most widely used Swiss automatic caliber in production today, having filled the supply gap created by ETA's restrictions on third-party sales. A functional clone of the ETA 2824-2, it is dimensionally identical and shares the same parts compatibility. Available in multiple grades from Standard to Top, the SW200-1 powers watches from dozens of Swiss and international brands.

Design language

Case shape
round
Dial style
textured
Bezel
fixed
Bracelet
integrated
Hands
baton

AI-detected from the product image

Twelve collection · 7 watches

The Twelve 36
The Twelve 3636mm
The Twelve 40 (Ti)
The Twelve 40 (Ti)40mm
The Twelve 660
The Twelve 66038mm
The Twelve Midnight
The Twelve Midnight38mm
Twelve X (Ti)
Twelve X (Ti)41mm
Twelve X Black Shadow
Twelve X Black Shadow41mm

17 colorways

Alternatives

01The living market

A resale market to follow

Tracked on the secondary market, updated through the day. Not appraisals or offers.

Retail$1,495

Nothing listed right now, and 3 closed in the last 90 days.

  • ·Asking and closing medians, each with the number of listings behind it
  • ·The weekly trend, on a real time scale
  • ·How long one takes to sell, from the listings that closed

Christopher Ward on the secondhand market

Not enough to call it

21 matched watches

Year-by-year readings →

Four signals, read separately

Supply, attention, intent and resale, each read from its own evidence and reported with its own sample. They are never added together: a watch that is hard to buy and a watch that is badly wanted are different facts, and one blended number cannot tell you which you are looking at.

Scarcity

Free

Whether the brand still sells it, and every change we have seen.

Reading…

Read from the brand's own product pages and stock feeds, not from shops or resale listings. We can only show changes we saw, so a quiet history is not proof that nothing moved.

Attention

Free

How many people here are keeping track of it.

Reading…

Favourites, collections and wishlists from signed-in members, counted as distinct people. Views are excluded on purpose: per-watch view counts were found to anti-correlate with real traffic and there is no bot filter at the write path. Gross adds only, because an un-save deletes its row, so a fall here is less new interest and not people walking away.

Intent

Free

Taps through to somewhere it can actually be bought.

Reading…

One row per redirect we issued to somewhere this watch can be bought, written on the server after the destination was checked, with crawlers excluded. A tap is intent and never a purchase: no sale or commission can be derived from it. The log carries no exposure count, so there is no click-through rate. Relative prominence requires a mature comparison cohort.

Liquidity

Free

How often it changes hands, and how many are for sale now.

None listed right now, but it does trade

3 sales closed in the last 90 days.

Public enthusiast forum listings matched to this reference automatically, counted alongside dealer storefronts and never blended with them. Counts only on this panel. What one is worth is the market act's own question, and its figures carry their own sample sizes.

A silent axis is shown rather than hidden, so the ones with something to say cannot be mistaken for the whole picture.

02The connection engine

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03The community take

Owners talk.

“

Christopher Ward The Twelve is widely praised for its excellent value, comfortable and thin titanium case, and COSC-certified movements. Owners and reviewers highlight the lightweight feel and attractive finishing. However, some find the dial design lacks originality, and one owner noted sharp edges on bracelet links and unfinished clasp interiors, leading to a return. The skeletonized dial on The Twelve X, while a selling point, can impact legibility, and the case chamfers may be prone to dings. Overall, owners and reviewers rate Christopher Ward The Twelve highly for its comfortable titanium construction and strong value proposition.

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On real wrists · 4

04The paper trail

In collections

Micro

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