I visited the CW Showroom finally got a few minutes to sit down and write this.
I visited the CW Showroom on the 17th of May, as I always try to do when in that area of the UK whilst on holiday.
I really wanted to check out The Twelve on this occasion.
My watch size sweet spot is 41/42mm so with this being 40mm, albeit not a standard case shape, I wanted to try it on to see if it would be okay as I have sold/not kept any watch below 41mm recently, vintage watches aside of course

Firstly, The Twelve is a stunner of a watch !!

Amazing detailing throughout, case, dial, bracelet etc.
Initially when I first saw the photos, the Nordic Blue stood out as 'the one' to get, then I fell for the Glacier Blue but I had eventually decided on the Basalt Grey as 'the one'.
This just proves how beneficial a CW showroom visit really is, or if you can't get to their showroom then their 60/60.
Declan, as always was the ultimate gentleman and treated us all extremely well on our visit.
He had a great selection of CW watches on display for us including of course the full stainless steel Twelve selection, the titanium versions were unavailable at the time.
I started to properly check out each colourway.
Firstly the Nordic Blue which is gorgeous, they all are really to be fair.
Then the Basalt Grey and then the Glacier Blue.
All fantastic.
However when I checked out the Arctic White version, something became very clear indeed, pun totally intended !
The Arctic White version has a different handset and indices colouring to the rest of the colourways !!!


I hadn't realized this from all the photos beforehand.
And it's a game changer.
The sides of the hands and the indices are a dark grey/charcoal finish which makes the Arctic White version the most legible of all the colourway options !!
It is very obvious when having all the colourways to hand, literally.
As usual with me, funds are always the issue, the lack of..... so I didn't buy one on the day but I will be getting one at some stage, hopefully sooner than later. But it will be the Arctic White for me.
Bracelet wise, Declan kindly sized it for me to properly see it on my wrist and also important for me to see that even though it's 40mm, because of the dodecagonal case shape it to me feels and looks 41mm or thereabouts

Here are some photos, my wrist size is somewhere between 6.5 & 6.75" inches for reference.
Also, in one photo, the Christopher Ward name is upside on the bracelet. This was my fault for putting the bracelet on the wrong way round for fitting to the Artic White version. Just in case anyone was wondering or thinking this was odd for CW to do this

















