In 2019, Bremont launched its Armed Forces collection, a series of watches developed in partnership with Britain’s Ministry of Defence and inspired by the legendary “Dirty Dozen” timepieces worn by British Army officers in World War II. As the sole luxury watch company permitted to use the signs, symbols, and Heraldic Badges of the U.K.’s three military branches, Bremont expanded the collection last year with a trio of bronze-cased models. This year, in celebration of the Silver Armed Forces Covenant award it received for its continuing support of its country’s military, the London-based watchmaker has released the Broadsword Jet, an Armed Forces collection model that combines a black DLC-coated case with bronze details and becomes Bremont’s first-ever watch sold exclusively online.
Based on the original Broadsword, the model in the Armed Forces collection that most directly references the utilitarian field-watch design of the Dirty Dozen, the Broadsword Jet stands apart from its predecessors with its use of an extra-durable, scratch-resistant, nonreflective DLC coating on its two-part steel case. Adding a touch of visual panache to its predominantly black dial are bronze-colored satin finishes on the hands (for the central hours and minutes as well as on the small seconds subdial at 6 o’clock) and a bronze fluted crown. The hands and the dial’s Arabic numerals and indexes, interrupted only by a date window at 3 o’...