Bremont and Bamford Collaborate on a Blacked Out S500 with a California Dial
It?s a funny old place, England. Looking out of the window as I write this I can see Burford Priory. Built around 1580 in Jacobean style, it was rebuilt in the seventeenth century, left to fall down and then restored in the 1800s. It used to be home to a community of monks. If you look in the back garden of a house just a few yards away you?ll find an arch from around 1500 just next to where the current owners keep their bins. You can?t move without falling over a bit of medieval abbey. But drive a few miles down the road to Henley and you?ll find Bremont?s new HQ, The Wing, with as much hi-tech manufacturing capability as an F1 team (in fact they make bits for Williams F1). Head north and you?ll find the Cotswolds outpost of Bamford Watch Department, headed by George Bamford. England still has its history, but its watchmakers are looking far more to the future than the past. Now the two firms have got together to launch their first co-developed watch, the S500 Special Edition.
A word of advice before you read on too far. The last Bamford collab with Casio sold out in under a minute. OK, this one is a tad more than the price of the Casio (£3,995 versus £149) but we can?t see these hanging around.
There?s a typically idiosyncratic story about how the collaboration came apart, as told by George Bamford. ?I have known Nick and Giles for a while now and we became firm friends when I was moving into my Mayfair ?Hive? office 7 years ago and they were parking a ver...
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