Fears Watches was first founded in 1846, closed in the sixties but was then reestablished in 2013 by Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, the founder's great-great-great grandson. Its first watch was quartz and it was anticipated that it would be some years before a mechanical watch would be available. In the event, however, Fears produced a mechanical watch, the Brunswick, in 2017 and it today has added to that collection a beautiful blue-dialled version, the 'Brunswick Blue'.
I saw an early sample of the watch a while ago and was struck by the sheer beauty of the galvanised blue dial. A photo could never capture the depth and richness of colour. The dial has gone through 56 processes to make and has three levels, with 2 surface finishes in which matt and vertical graining are applied by hand and a two-tone blue finish is the beautiful result.
The blue dial follows the initial white-dialled Brunswick. It has a 38mm (the perfect size in my view) cushion case, skeletonised hands, a choice of leather straps and a top grade mechanical movement with Côtes de Genève decoration.
The watch is hand-built in the UK in small batches of 20 and is available from today, 14 November 2019, price £3,350. See Fears Watches.
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