01 — Full custom build
A watch specified from the ground up
Case, movement, hands, dial, finishing. You bring the intent; we work out the parts list, the tolerances and the timeline, then build it.
Watches and dials, made one at a time.
Commission a complete build, or send in a watch you already own and have a new dial made for it. Every piece is quoted by hand.
What we make
Two lines of work
02 — Re-dial service
Your watch, a new face
You send us the watch you already own. We make a dial for it, fit it, and return the piece. The case, movement and bracelet stay yours — only the dial changes.
Collections
Five starting points
A collection is a specification, not a catalogue entry. Each one sets the layout, the complication and the proportions. Everything after that — the dial, the hands, the finish — is decided with you.
Day-date
Rideau
A dress-leaning three-hander with day and date. Flat dial, applied indices, sized to sit under a cuff. Made to be read at a glance and otherwise left alone.
Dive
Strait
Rotating bezel, screw-down crown, high-contrast lume on a matte ground. Built to a 200 m spec and finished on the assumption it will get wet.
Meridian
Photography to come
GMT
Meridian
A second time zone on a 24-hour hand, with a bezel or dial track to read it against. For people already keeping two clocks in their head.
Chronograph
Circuit
Two or three registers depending on the movement, with a tachymeter or pulsometer scale if the dial can carry one. Pushers you can feel through a glove.
Art dials
Gallery
One-off dial work — engraved landmarks, painted grounds and commissioned portraits. Each piece is made once and documented, then the setup is broken down.
From the bench
What has actually been made
Finished pieces from the workshop. Some were commissions, some were tests that earned their place. None of them repeat.
Dial work
Engraved landmarks, painted grounds and commissioned portraits. Every one is made once.
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Carrick-a-Rede, County Antrim
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The Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim
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Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario
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Skating the Rideau Canal, Ottawa
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Emerald Isle, Éire
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A commissioned retriever
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Lavender on aubergine
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Parliament Hill, Ottawa
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The Causeway Coast
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A commissioned cat
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Green Gables, Prince Edward Island
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Camp under the Milky Way
Full build work
Assembled, regulated and boxed. Cases and bracelets are sourced; the dial is the part made here.
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Day-date, green textured ground
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Dive, black bezel on steel
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Chronograph, panda dial
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Full gold, champagne dial
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A portrait dial on jubilee
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Rectangular case, rose gold
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Day-date, lacquer white
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Gold bezel on black leather
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Day-date, slate dial
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Day-date on a dark ground
Where to go next
Two ways in
Commission
Build your own
Work through the case, movement, dial and hands, see a rough band for that kind of build, and send the specification over.
Start a build →Supplies
Parts and tools
Pre-built pieces, the components used at this bench, and the tools worth owning if you are building your own.
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