Concord is proud to announce his new partnership with the French NBA basketball player Ronny Turiaf. The brand and its new Ambassador have developed a limited edition of the C1 Chronograph to help the Ronny Turiaf Heart to Heart Foundation.

This partnership was officially announced during a casual press breakfast in Paris on September 23. Ronny Turiaf's friends and partners in the French Basketball team, Tony Parker and Boris Diaw also attended the function to show their support to the Foundation.

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Concord has started revealing some of their Baselworld 2010 novelties. It seems a little early, considering Baselworld is not until March of next year. But then again, why not unveil some of their product line now? The new Concord C1 Chronograph All Black is 44 mm in diameter and 16.7 mm in thickness. It features a steel case and is comprised of 53 elements, a black PVD treatment, a protective ring and polished PVD self-locking screws. Black rubber paws protect the bezel, and give the C1 its unmistakable look.

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Paramus, N.J.--Movado Group Inc. has appointed Alex Grinberg worldwide president of Concord effective immediately.

"Grinberg joined the company in 1994 as territory manager for the Movado Brand, and in 1996, was promoted to general manager for Concord Asia. In that role, Grinberg was stationed in the Far East and spent the next four years developing Movado Group brands in Hong Kong and Japan. He returned to the United States in 2000 and became the president of Concord, Americas."

He will continue to conduct business from the Movado Group's headquarters, in New Jersery, although he has mentioned to me that he will be traveling to Europe more frequently.

He replaces the outgoing CEO, Vincent Perriard, who recently moved to Technomarine.

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Concord recently unveiled a double retrograde complication that combines the date and the day of the week. Powered by a Concord C101 automatic movement, the C1 Biretrograde is available in either platinum or rose-gold. The dial is transparent (skeleton) and features a high-tech multi-layered design. A thick 3.3 mm sapphire crystal protects the dial. Below this is a chapter ring, which is slightly off-center to provide room for the retrograde displays.

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(This slideshow includes photos of the new Concord timepieces, taken at their booth in Basel. Including shots of the new Quantum Gravity.)

You might also like this 6-minute video of the Concord Quantum Gravity.

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Concord C1 Quantum Gravity Power Reserve Tourbillon at Baselworld 2009 from ProfessionalWatches.com on Vimeo.

Video of the Concord C1 Quantum Gravity Tourbillon with Liquid-Filled Power Reserve Indicator. Timepiece was shown by Bruno Constans, Head of Concord Design team. A special thanks goes to Alex Grinberg, President of Concord USA, for making this video possible.

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[ via Concord ]

An aerial bi-axial tourbillon mechanism. A vertical power reserve. Individualist seconds. A stripped-down dial and spectacular volumes: the latest specimen from the C Lab Series defies all theories. Even better, it creates its own rules: emptiness is its core material, engineering its constancy; chemistry a dare and transparency a must.

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[ via Concord ]

Free, disruptive. The latest Concord specimen grants time a space that befits its very nature: free from constraints or ties. With an aerial bi-axial Tourbillon mechanism, a structure that makes emptiness its core material, a 3D dial, functional elements fitted to the side of the case and an industrial and minimalist spirit, the C1 QuantumGravity timepiece defies all laws, including that of watchmaking logic and most of all, of gravity.

The Tourbillon carriage, which is fitted outside the movement and case where it is suspended, literally, rotates in a multi-dimensional manner on two axes, the main one being vertical. The design of this disconcerting time device borrows its rigid and light structure from renowned cable-stayed bridges; an extended arm of cables fastened to the plate holds the cage in a vertical position, thus highlighting the sensation of autonomy.

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