Charlie Paris Watch: Concordia GMT Automatic Antarctic Blue

Charlie Paris: the Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue, a French automatic GMT tool watch water-resistant to 300 meters

The Charlie Paris Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue is an automatic watch designed both for travel and demanding sporting use. Its new generation adopts a 40.5 mm 316L stainless steel case, a slightly brushed blue dial, and a true GMT function allowing you to track a second time zone over 24 hours. Designed and assembled in Paris, the Charlie Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue also retains the 30 ATM / 300-meter water resistance that characterizes the Concordia collection.

The Charlie Concordia GMT measures 47.5 mm lug-to-lug and 11.75 mm thick excluding the crystal, for 13.5 mm including the crystal. Its blue dial is protected by a 3 mm domed anti-reflective sapphire crystal, while the unidirectional rotating bezel features an anodized aluminum insert with hour graduations and a luminescent marker at 12 o'clock. The screw-down crown of the Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue features a red safety marker to visually verify that it is properly screwed down.

At the heart of the Charlie Concordia GMT now lies the Seiko NH34, a Japanese automatic mechanical caliber with 24 jewels, operating at 21,600 vibrations per hour / 3 Hz and offering approximately 41 hours of power reserve. It features manual winding, hacking seconds, a date display, and a central GMT hand that can be adjusted independently in one-hour increments. This architecture allows the Concordia GMT to easily track a distant time zone.

The Charlie Concordia GMT visually distinguishes local time and the second time zone thanks to two luminescence colors: green for local time and blue for the GMT function. The screw-down caseback features a transparent sapphire crystal, allowing you to observe the NH34 movement and its Charlie-signed oscillating weight. The Concordia GMT Blue is offered with a wide choice of 20 mm straps, interchangeable without tools.

Technical specifications

• Brand: Charlie Paris
• Collection: Concordia
• Model: Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue
• Movement: Japanese automatic mechanical
• Caliber: Seiko NH34
• Frequency: 21,600 vibrations/hour - 3 Hz
• Jewels: 24
• Power reserve: Approximately 41 hours
• Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, and GMT / 24-hour second time zone
• Case: 316L stainless steel
• Diameter: 40.5 mm
• Lug-to-lug: 47.5 mm
• Thickness: 11.75 mm (excluding 3 mm crystal)
• Crystal: Domed anti-reflective sapphire
• Caseback: Screw-down with transparent sapphire crystal, revealing the movement
• Dial: Slightly brushed blue, date at 3 o'clock
• GMT display: Two-tone 24-hour scale located on the flange, which can also serve as a day/night indicator
• Hands: Three-dimensional hands, with a dedicated central GMT hand
• Indices: Applied luminescent indices
• Luminescence: Super-LumiNova®
• Local time luminescence color: Green
• GMT luminescence color: Blue
• Crown: Screw-down, blue anodized aluminum insert, red marker indicating if the crown is properly screwed down
• Bezel: Unidirectional rotating, blue aluminum insert
• Strap: 3-link stainless steel in the default configuration proposed on the current product page; other steel, nylon, leather, and rubber straps are offered by Charlie Paris.
• Strap width: 20 mm
• Water resistance: 30 ATM / 300 meters
• Assembly: Assembled in Paris, France
• Charlie Paris warranty: 2 years

Why choose this watch?

The Charlie Paris Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue combines two functions rarely found in this price range: a true automatic GMT complication and a sports watch construction water-resistant to 300 meters. The Seiko NH34 provides the Concordia GMT with a robust and widely proven caliber, featuring hacking seconds, a date window, and approximately 41 hours of power reserve, while the unidirectional bezel retains a true sporting function.

The Charlie Concordia GMT also stands out for its particularly well-crafted nocturnal legibility, with green Super-LumiNova® for local time and blue for the second time zone. The domed sapphire crystal, transparent caseback, screw-down crown, and interchangeable straps complete a Concordia GMT Blue designed to combine travel, daily wear, and intense aquatic activities.

About the brand Charlie Paris

Founded in 2014, Charlie Paris designs and assembles its watches in its Parisian workshop. The brand develops contemporary French watchmaking, relying on Swiss and Japanese movements and collections designed to combine design, functionality, and daily use.

The Charlie Paris Concordia GMT Antarctic Blue is part of a collection born from the Concordia developed in 2018 to accompany Matthieu Tordeur's expedition to the South Pole. With this new generation, Charlie Paris evolves the Concordia GMT around a more accessible version equipped with the Seiko NH34 caliber and a reworked 40.5 mm case, while retaining the fundamental elements of the collection: 300-meter resistance, high legibility, and a tool watch architecture.