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In 2011 he received the US Green Building Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He chairs the board guiding the greening of 430,000 federal buildings, serves on the Mayor’s Committee for the greening of the District of Columbia and served on National Academy of Sciences' board on US competitiveness. He has an MBA from Stanford, a BA from UNC as a Morehead Scholar, and is author of Greening Our Built World. Overall, I’ve enjoyed my time with the Ciga Design Blue Planet Gilded Edition.
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The latest edition of the Blue Planet watch features a GPHG logo, promoting the watch's award-winning status, printed on the exhibition caseback. I was sitting in a crowded amphitheater in the heart of Geneva when the well-heeled Swiss crowd suddenly started to murmur. Michael F. Doherty is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1977. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for The Dow Chemical Company, and the Scientific Advisory Board for the Royal Dutch Shell Group.
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From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Rodney Schmidt has more than 30 years of experience in the global energy and financial industries. He is Founder and CEO of Northrise Energy, a privately-held energy advisory firm. Previously Mr. Schmidt served as Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank and Standard Chartered Securities N.A. Inc., in charge of wholesale banking. In 1989 Mr. Schmidt joined PFC Energy, a global energy strategic advisory firm. As a partner for 17 years, he helped build PFC into one of the energy industry’s leading advisory groups.
It’s Chinese
This change makes the watch comparable to the titanium version of the Blue Planet in terms of weight., but offers an entirely different appearance. Although it has a gloss finish, the black ceramic makes the watch look smaller than its siblings. For those with medium to smaller wrists who are a bit intimidated by the 46mm diameter, I can only say don’t be.
With the lack of lugs and the drastic curvature of the case, I would have expected this watch to be difficult to strap down comfortably, but it was not - And I was pleasantly surprised. Imagine everyone’s surprise in 2021, when Chinese brand CIGA Design was announced the winner of the Challenge Watch category of GPHG - The first-ever Chinese watch company to win. I especially like that the map focuses on the Eastern hemisphere, showing pride in its origin rather than necessarily trying to cater to Western consumers.
It almost doesn’t look like a watch
The ceramic bracelet comes on a neat gilded butterfly clasp that contours nicely and doesn’t scratch or irritate. You’d think with all the polished ceramic, the watch would retain fingerprints pretty badly, but it actually doesn’t. In fact, it’s dark enough that it’s hard to tell any smudges are even there. A few months ago, we had the opportunity to review the CIGA Design Blue Planet.
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You need to get your fingernail underneath it to pull it out; a minor detail, which did not bother me but one to mention nonetheless. The whole case is a solid structure, with a recess at either end for the strap to tuck in beneath the “bezel”, and a screwed caseback with a second sapphire crystal. This crystal is inscribed with the GHPG logo and the category in which the watch won first prize.
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It’s an elegant solution, although it does take some mental adjustment in practice, particularly because the hours and minutes scales count in opposite directions. Learning curve issues aside, it’s a charismatic and unique way to display the time and one that offers more visual spectacle than nearly anything else at this price point. Working with cities and institutions to implement clean energy strategies. He helped design the World Bank’s green building financing program. Greg is a founder of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the country’s first green bank.
The big case size wears nicely thanks to the shape and lightness of the titanium, and even the basic movement seems well executed. CIGA Design's winner was the Blue Planet, a 46mm titanium watch emblazoned with a three-dimensional aluminum globe in the center of the dial that uses a proprietary asynchronous time display. At the time the prize was announced, I had never heard of CIGA Design – and neither had any of the old-school Swiss watch industry executives who surrounded me. Inside the Blue Planet Gilding Edition is Ciga’s “In house” movement.
That leads us, like frogs in a hot pan, to this, the Blue Planet. Industrial Designer Zhang Jianmin had exactly the same thought. And so he founded CIGA Design out of Shenzhen, China, using crowdfunding to make watches that bring to life the idea of affordable eccentricity. All the watches you need to know about, delivered to your inbox daily.
It’s a striking watch with an obvious and powerful message — Planet Earth. That’s a broad statement that CIGA Design has eloquently wrapped up in a sentence no bigger than 46mm. If Earth means quite a lot to you — whatever the specifics of that may be — and you want to show it or at least be constantly reminded of it, the Blue Planet is for you. For me, it was enough to feel vaguely like an astronaut or alien gazing at Earth while wearing it to convince me of the watch’s merit and message. It’s not bad to spend your time smiling, which the Blue Planet certainly caused me to do. It’s not often we set aside a section of a review for a watch’s packaging.
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Mr. Schmidt has published and presented on the global energy industry, and on energy taxation. Before PFC, he was with the Monetary and Financial Analysis division of the Bank of Canada in Ottawa, and has served as an advisor to several CO2 technology companies. David Gottfried is known as a father of the global green building movement, founding the U.S. Overall, the Blue Planet by CIGA Design is one of the most fun watches I’ve had my hands on in a long time. Thinking out of the box can often be deemed impractical by the typically rigid watch industry juggernaut.
During the last 800 years of clock making and 200 years of wrist horology, the minute hand rotates 360°. Price-wise, the CIGA Design Blue Planet Titanium feels like a steal, as it retails for USD 1,099 without taxes (and even as little as USD 899 in stainless steel). For that, you get a seriously cool, unconventional and award-winning watch that will very likely attract quite a bit of attention from others! The one thing that could make it better is the application of luminous material on the hour and minute rings and perhaps on the rotating planet.
As its name indicates, this watch is the sequel to the Blue Planet, a watch that in 2021 won the Challenge Watch Prize at the GPHG. While the Gilding Version is in many ways the same watch, CIGA Design took a slightly different approach to the design, in essence creating a more luxurious version of the timepiece. First, you have to locate the compass wedged in between silver land masses. The compass has less sheen than the “map” but it takes a few long seconds to ID it. Worse, the hour markers are the same small size as the minute markers, with a lot of tiny hash marks between both confusing the matter. Sponsored Posts are a form of advertising that allows sponsors to share useful news, messages, and offers to aBlogtoWatch readers in a way traditional display advertising is often not best suited to.
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