If you’re an H.R. Giger fan, then today’s review should set your heart aflutter. This is the Morpheus Passagen, and I can pretty much guarantee you’ve never seen one like it. Let’s start with the facts:
- 33mm wide by 42.4mm tall, 10.4mm thick. 80g on the calfskin leather strap.
- PVD-coated 316L stainless steel case
- Swiss ETA 2824 movement, handwinding and hacking with 42 hour power reserve.
- Keyhole-shaped sapphire crystal
- Water resistant to 50m (165ft)
- Signed 6.5mm non-screw-down crown
- Available in black or yellow dial, and also in gold-plated case
- 50-piece limited edition in each color combination, numbered caseback.
Read on for the full review.
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Today's review of the Morpheus Culinary C2 may be, I think, the first ever cooking watch to be reviewed here on Watch Report. Proving that, once again, for truly radically new ideas, the place to look is the tiny new watchmaker you've never heard of before. When James Cowan, president of Morpheus, contacted us, we were skeptical of a watch designed such that they had "produced a timepiece with both the elegance of a fine watch and a captivating theme dedicated to the art of cooking."
But they did. And I like it. Let's get started on the review with the specifications:
- 316L stainless steel case and bracelet, also available in leather/steel and leather/gold. 41.5mm across by 14mm (appx), 150g on bracelet.
- Bracelet is solid-link, solid end piece, Oyster style with fliplock, four micro-adjustments, split pins and signed clasp.
- 7-hand Swiss ISA 8173 analog quartz movement.
- Domed sapphire crystal.
- Hand applied indices at 3 and 6, etched 'Culinary' on the left side of the case.
- Hour, minute, second, and GMT hand all lumed.
- Hours/minutes/seconds, with subseconds at 3 o'clock.
- 12-hour alarm (it's the red hand, at 6:30 in the picture above).
- Second time zone function (the 24 hour hand is the lumed one at 11 o'clock above).
- The alarm subdial at 10 o'clock also doubles as a battery gauge.
- Date at 4 o'clock, and day of week via the six o'clock subdial.
- Two year warranty.
- Water resistant to 50m (160ft).
- Unique cooking theme carried throughout.
Please continue reading for the details on the culinary theme and the review proper.
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