There is certainly no shortage of British watch brands offering home-grown designs right now, but few can match five-year-old Marloe in the value-for-money stakes.
If you’ve never heard of it, here’s some background: launched on Kickstarter in January 2016 by marketing consultant Oliver Goffe and draughtsman Gordon Fraser, it delivered its first watches seven months later in the form of the two-hand Derwent (then £329) and the Lomond chronograph (£450). Both had hand-wound movements from China’s Tianjin Seagull company and, as the months ticked by and sales grew from tens to hundreds to thousands, so the number of satisfied customers steadily increased.