Jewellery & Watch News
Performance, power and precision. Three words that luxury watch brand Gorilla live by and three words effortlessly portrayed in their men’s watch collections. C W Sellors is proud to announce we are official UK stockists of the brand, and you can now shop all the latest Gorilla watch releases on our website and in our stores.
Founded only in 2016, the Neuchatel-based Swiss watch manufacturer is fuelled by a passion for cars and watches, combining radical materials, high precision movements and menacing case designs to push the edge of convention, delivering addictive products designed to be seen. Driven by a deeply rooted passion for horology, the brand was founded by former Audemars Piguet Chief Artistic Officer, Octavio Garcia, and former Audemars Piguet Senior Designer Lukas Gopp. Together, they wanted to test their own creative limits with a need to consciously break the status quo of luxury watch design. To introduce you all to this fresh new luxury watch brand, let’s explore all the current Gorilla watch collections.
Gorilla Complications Watches
Just as its name suggests, the Gorilla Complications watch collection delivers some of the brand’s finest mechanical complications including the chronograph and more famously, wandering hours. The Gorilla Drift Mirage watch showcases the latter with a unique wandering hours complication on a powder blue and orange racing design inspired by the victorious livery at LeMans in 1968. The Gorilla Outlaw Drift watch and the Gorilla Drift Elise retain the same functionality but with differing colourways, each powered by the brand’s exclusive G-5238 automatic winding movement. Last up in the Gorilla Complications collection is the Gorilla Fastback Thunderbolt Chronograph which was created in conjunction with independent Vallée de Joux manufacture Dubois Dépraz. It marks the first Gorilla chronograph in the brand’s line-up and evokes the adrenaline of the racetrack with a grade 5 titanium case, large stop, start and reset buttons and a customized Dubois Dépraz DD-268 skeletonized chronograph module revealed through the openwork dial.
Gorilla Fastback Watches
The Gorilla Fastback watch collection is the perfect starting point for any newbie to the luxury watch world. It delivers affordable, charismatic and powerful three-hand timepieces inspired by American Muscle Cars. The cases evoke the sports car silhouette with clever sculpting to optimise airflow and stunning design cues drawn from the 1960’s and 70’s including bold colouring, high-tech materials and dual-toned straps. There are currently five designs in the Gorilla Fastback series: the Hugger Orange, Stinger Yellow, Galaxy Blue, Phantom Black and RS White. The first four all follow suit with matte black ceramic bezels, 44mm forged carbon cases, sapphire crystal glass, titanium screw down crowns and a multi-layered dial detailed with Superluminova. They differ only for their namesake colour appearing in elements on the dial, strap and case. The Gorilla Fastback RS White differs a little more with a stunning scratch resistant semi-glossy white ceramic bezel and sporty red accents on the dial and case with an anodized aluminium “pinstripe”.
Gorilla Fastback GT Watches
The third and final collection to introduce you to is the Gorilla Fastback GT. These incredible luxury watch designs honour the livery of different retro sports cars with bulky square-shaped forged carbon cases, polished ceramic bezels, sapphire crystal glass and a multi-layered dial hosting a unique hour disc, skeleton minute hand and luminescent hour markers. The Gorilla Fastback GT Espionage watch is a particular favourite of ours taking its name and dark green and orange colour scheme from a 1965 Ford Mustang while the Gorilla Fastback GT Truffelhunter commemorates the livery of a Stuttgart born one-off prototype developed to race as an aerodynamics test car at the 24 hours of LeMans in 1971. There’s also the Gorilla Fastback GT Spectre dressed in stealthy black and red, the Gorilla Fastback GT Bandit inspired by the 1977 Firebird Bandit and lastly, the Gorilla Fastback GT Leon Racing, a unique watch designed in partnership with the Super GT racing team, Leon Pyramid AMG.
If you’d like to shop any of these Gorilla watches, simply head to the C W Sellors website here. Alternatively, get in touch with the team by calling 01335 453453 or send a message at sales@cwsellors.com and our team of luxury watch specialists will guide you through all the latest Gorilla watch releases.
