The Stamford copper-bottomed watch.
After years of servicing and restoring fine watches, we now make our own high quality, mechanical wristwatch.
The first, stainless steel, watches that we made sold out in a matter of weeks last December. The second, much improved version is now on sale as a limited edition of 100 pieces.
The copper-bottomed watch differs in several ways:
The case is copper-plated using surgical quality copper developed in Birkinhead over a hundred years ago. The copper gives a superp chocolate-gold effect and will mellow with age. It is mildly stain resistant, so will not go green or turn your wrist green!
The movement has been much refined. Only tiny tweeks to the poise and balance of the escapement, and the exact positioning of index pin and shoe, but added together make this the most accurate watch we have ever produced.
Each has been tested and adjusted in six positions: dial up, dial down, crown up, down, left, right. This gives the most accurate mean rate for a watch possible without moving up to "chronometer" specifications.
In short, if an officially certified chronometer can gain up to six seconds a day (in laboratory conditions) our watch can do ten seconds a day - very good for any mechanical watch and enough to live your life by.
We have tried to adjust each one so that it will gain slightly rather than lose, and each watch features "hacking" whereby when the crown is pulled out the watch will stop until it is depressed again. This makes re-setting the watch a simple matter.
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The movement is a 22-jewel automatic, high-frequency design. We decorated the plates with traditional "cotes de geneve" stripes (engine turned stripes) and with "spotting". The edges are neatly bevelled and the screws have been blued both for contrast and for ease of use in servicing. The movement is neatly visible through an exhibition sapphire case back. |
Each watch is hand built and rigorously tested in our Stamford workshops before it goes on sale. Every one is tested and adjusted in six positions. We have the confidence that each will keep excellent time and function reliably. Our watches are guaranteed for three years but designed to last a lifetime. |
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A limited edition of one hundred British watches, designed and hand-built by us in Stamford. Each movement is carefully adjusted and tested in six positions.
Each is re-tested once the movement, dial, hands and case are complete. The vast majority of modern watch movements are only tested briefly before casing up but experience has taught us that our way is the right way.
The movements are signed and numbered on the automatic winding weight, clearly visible once in the case.
We tested each watch for water-resistance to 5 ATM. They were not intended to be waterproof, this is simply a good way to ensure they are completely dust-proof and should withstand getting soaked in the rain or an accidental plunge into a basin of water.
The Stamford copper-bottomed Watch is for sale from our St Mary's Hill workshops, gift -boxed for £670.
The image below shows the first watch we produced in 2009. A limited edition of one hundred, it sold out in weeks.
We had a superb write-up from Stamford Living magazine in their December 2009 feature: "The People of St Mary's". Go to www.StamfordLiving.co.uk to see the article in full.
Likewise the Stamford Mercury's glowing write up at www.Stamford Mercury.co.uk
We have not had much time to post reviews or comments but...
" It's a superb watch (the beautifully blued hands make it wonderfully easy to read in any light) and if you would like to use any of my comments on your website then please feel free to do so. I really shouldn't wear it in everyday use, considering my work takes me into contact with some pretty heavy engineering but I do like it! I can always take it off whenever I go out into the workshops anyway...
Look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
David."
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