Earlier this week, Bremont hosted its 2019 Bremont Townhouse event in New York City where we received the opportunity to view and handle the British brand’s latest novelties. (We also hosted a collectors’ dinner earlier in the week at Watches of Switzerland with Bremont Co-founder Giles English) The centerpiece of Bremont?s 2019 offerings is the so-called Armed Forces Collection, a trilogy of new models that were developed in partnership with the British Ministry of Defence. The watches, which take their inspiration from the famous ?Dirty Dozen,? a series of watches commissioned by the British Army during World War II, represent the first Bremont Military timepieces available for purchase by civilians. They are also the only watches authorized by the MoD to bear the heraldic badges of all three of Britain?s military services, the Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force (RAF). These badges are stamped on the solid casebacks of all three models, whose two-part cases are made of hardened steel, though not in the familiar ?Trip-Tick? configuration of more expensive Bremont watches. Like the original ?Dirty Dozen? watches that were issued to military personnel of the time, the Bremont Armed Forces pieces meet a specific set of criteria for usage in the field, including water resistance, luminous markings on the dials, and chronometer-certified timekeeping accuracy. Like the rest of Bremont?s output, they are produced at the company?s ever-expanding manufacturing facili...