WHEN BROTHERS NICK AND GILES English sketched out their initial plan to launch Bremont in 2002, their mission was to help reinvigorate the British watch industry by assembling timepieces on home soil and making as many components as possible in the UK. And in October, after almost 20 years of hard graft, the pair proudly unveiled a watch powered by the first industrially produced mechanical movement to have been created in the UK since Smiths Industries shut down its mighty Anglo-Celtic Watch Company in 1980.
The new Bremont automatic, which features a big date display, offset seconds and a power reserve indicator, makes its first appearance in a limited edition model, the Longitude, that was unveiled at the Greenwich Observatory and contains brass taken from the meridian line. There will be 150 examples in steel and 75 each in white and red gold.