PRECISION
Running fast
Zero West pays tribute to the Sunbeam land speed record car – which was built on the company premises in the 1920s
The styling of the LS-2 is a reference to dashboardmounted timers of the inter-war years
If you like watches inspired by cars, motorcycles, planes and boats, the small, independent UK maker Zero West needs to be on your radar. Founded in 2018 by designer Andrew Brabyn and military equipment technician Graham Collins, its mission was to create watches that pinpoint milestones in mechanical engineering.
It could, therefore, have been serendipity that led them to base themselves in an old boat house at the north end of Chichester Harbour. After moving in they discovered that the building was steeped in vehicular history, first as the place where Sir Henry Segrave’s 1000HP Sunbeam speed record car was built during the 1920s and later as the workshop of George Gray, a metal fabrication expert who made the panelling for the first Vanwall grand prix car.