Any watch we built, and most manual chronographs we did not. Quoted after inspection, never before.
Series 04 · Steel
One watch, made forty times.
We build a single reference and we build it properly. No collection, no seasonal colours, no reason to replace the one you have.
A watch is the only machine most people wear.
Three hundred and eleven parts, running without a battery, keeping time to within a few seconds a day for decades if it is looked after. That is worth showing properly rather than photographing against a slate tile like everybody else.
The watch
Six things worth pointing at.
Scroll, and the watch stays where it is.
01 / 06
Knurled steel bezel
Cut on a rotary index rather than stamped, which is why the flutes stay sharp under a loupe and why it takes nine minutes per case.
Knurled steel bezel. Cut on a rotary index rather than stamped, which is why the flutes stay sharp under a loupe and why it takes nine minutes per case.
Specification
The numbers.
Reference04-S / 40
Case316L steel, 39.5 mm
Thickness11.8 mm
Lug to lug46.2 mm
MovementManual chronograph, column wheel
Component count311
Frequency21,600 vph
Power reserve58 hours
Regulated rate−1 / +5 s per day
CrystalBox sapphire, AR both faces
Water resistance100 m
Series sizeForty pieces
Regulated in five positions over ten days before it leaves the bench. Each watch ships with its own timing certificate showing the measured rate, not a typical one.
How it is built
Bench to wrist.
- 01
Parts in
Cases and bracelets machined to our drawings; movements arrive raw and unfinished.
- 02
Finishing
Bridges chamfered, wheels snailed, screws blued. This is the half of the work nobody sees and the half that takes the time.
- 03
Assembly
One watchmaker builds a watch start to finish. No line, no stations, no handing a half-built movement to somebody else.
- 04
Regulation
Ten days on the timing machine in five positions, adjusted until the rate holds. Then the certificate is printed from those readings.
Also offered
What else the workshop does.
A small bench with a long waiting list. These are the things we take on between series.
Original parts wherever they exist; made to drawing where they do not. We will tell you when a watch is not worth it.
Cut, not lasered. Included on a series watch, quoted separately on anything else.
Free for the life of the watch. Post it to us and it comes back the same week.
The list
Forty is not many.
Series 04 is allocated in the order enquiries arrive. Tell us your wrist size and we will tell you honestly where you are in the queue.
- Hours
- The bench answers on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Forty,then never again.
When a series is gone it is gone. The next one is a different watch.