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Everwood Original

Inverness Bamboo Wooden Watch with Black Dial and Black Strap

Inverness Bamboo Wooden Watch with Black Dial and Black Strap

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Bamboo is the pale wood, and on this Inverness watch Everwood Original frames it in black from both sides. A black dial inside the bamboo bezel and a black leather strap under it turn the wood into the one light element on the wrist, which is the opposite of what a dark wood does and the reason this watch is easy to spot from across a room. The 45 mm case, 1.77 inches across, is 316L stainless steel front and back, and the wood sits on the bezel.

  • Light wood, dark frame. Bamboo is the brightest wood in the line, and black on both sides of it makes the bezel glow rather than blend.
  • Several tones together. Everwood lists the wood as multi bamboo, bamboo in more than one shade on a single bezel, so the ring is streaked rather than flat.
  • Grass, not tree. Bamboo is a grass with a dense, straight fiber, which is why the bezel shows long parallel lines instead of rings.

Light Bamboo in a Dark Frame

A bamboo watch with a black dial reverses the usual wood watch: instead of a dark bezel on a light face, the bezel is the pale part and the dial is the dark one. That makes the wood visible from further away and gives the watch a graphic look, a bright ring around a black center. Framing bamboo in black on both sides is what keeps a light wood from looking washed out, and it is why this pairing works with a black jacket where bamboo over tan would vanish.

Several Bamboo Tones on One Bezel

The bezel is not one color of bamboo. Everwood describes it as multi bamboo, which puts strips of lighter and darker bamboo side by side, so the ring carries a soft streak rather than a uniform tone. Look at it close and the strips show; at arm's length they blend to a warm pale gold. The movement is Miyota Japanese quartz with three hands and a date.

Black Dial Watch with Bamboo

A black dial watch reads by its applied indices, raised metal bars that catch light from the side, and by hands molded to the same idea. On this dial the seconds track is printed around the rim and the date reads through a small window. The pale bezel throws light onto the black dial at a slight angle, a small help that a dark bezel does not give.

Wearing a Bamboo Bezel Daily

Bamboo is hard, but pale wood shows what dark wood hides, so the edge of the ring beneath a cuff wants a wipe with a dry cloth every week or two. Everwood rates the steel case to 50 meters, which covers rain, handwashing and a splash, and the leather strap is what you keep out of the water. The strap sits on quick-release bars and closes with a memory lock clasp in stainless steel. A black leather strap is the practical choice under bamboo because it takes knocks without showing them, leaving the pale bezel as the only surface that asks for care.

Inverness Bamboo with Black on Black

Is bamboo lighter in color than other watch woods? Yes. Bamboo runs from pale straw to light gold, lighter than walnut, zebrawood or rosewood, which is why black on both sides suits it.

Why are there several shades in the bezel? Because Everwood builds it from more than one tone of bamboo, which it lists as multi bamboo. The strips sit side by side and read as a streaked ring.

Can a black dial work with a light wood? It works better than a white one here. The dark dial gives the pale bezel a frame to stand against, and the black strap repeats that frame below.

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