There’s a Big Crown, and Then There’s This: Introducing the Waltham Field & Marine Trench Watch
Watch Angels, a group that describes itself as a ?crowd manufacturer,? has been around for a few years now. The way it works is relatively simple – you can think of them as a crowdfunding platform like Kickstarter, but focused exclusively on watches. Based in Switzerland, they?re a watch manufacturer that is happy to lend out their infrastructure to projects that the larger group settles on, with ?Angels? committing to a project at a concept stage, eventually able to purchase watches at cost. Looking through their catalog and current roster of projects in various stages of completion, you?ll find a wide variety of mostly modern designs from independent brands and creators. One offering, though, stands out, and that?s the trench watch from Waltham.
Waltham is a historic American watch brand, and in over 100 years of operation produced around 40 million timing instruments, and played a critical role in literally inventing watchmaking at a mass scale, modeling their factory network on that of Ford?s Model T production line. The company hasn?t existed in a meaningful way since the mid 1950s, so this release is curious in the way it resurrects an important American brand name. With so many watches from Waltham?s long history to choose from, it?s also interesting that they landed on the trench watch as the chief inspiration.
The press release for the new Field & Marine Trench Watch states, with a little bit of shade, that it is based on the first wa...
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