Established in 2015 in London, Farer has been swiftly and aggressively growing its line of British-designed, Swiss-made timepieces ? debuting three-hand automatics, GMT models, a dive watch series, and a dressy, cushion-shaped, manually wound gent’s dress watch in subsequent years. Last week, the latest additions to the family debuted in New York. Here is what you need to know about Farer’s three new mechanical chronographs ? the Cobb, Eldridge, and Segrave.
Farer Cobb Chronograph
Each named for a pioneering figure in Britain’s illustrious motor racing history, the watches feature 39-mm stainless steel cases, multi-level detailed two-register dials with bold colors and luminous-coated hands, and individually numbered casebacks that can be personally engraved. All are powered by an Elaboré-grade ETA 2894-2 integrated chronograph movement, with automatic winding, 37 jewels, and a 42-hour power reserve. Visible through a sapphire window in the watch’s caseback, the movement’s haute horlogerie finishing details, including perlage and blued screws, are further highlighted by a bespoke, openworked rotor made of polished bronze. the ETA 2894-2 automatic movement has been enhanced with a bronze rotor.
The Cobb model is named for John Cobb, who broke the land speed record in 1939, bettered it in 1947, and perished in Scotland’s Loch Ness in 1952 in an attempt to break the world’s water speed record in a speedboat ? an accident some attribut...