Bremont: flying the flag for British watch manufacturing

Posted on 4 Jul 2017 by The Manufacturer
Bremont knows its branding – its Supermarine’s namesake dervies from the 1930s aircraft company, Supermarine, whose first ever Spitfire prototype – the Type 300 – led to one of Britain’s most iconic aircraft – image courtesy of Bremont.

Behind the effortless glamour of a luxury watch brand, modern watch manufacturing requires ultra-precision engineering and a finely honed sense of what to manufacture in-house and what to outsource. Dan Hayes hears the Bremont story from British watchmaker Giles English.

Giles and Nick English, the founders of Bremont: “We always wanted to do our bit for rebuilding British watchmaking.” Sitting in the Bremont Mayfair boutique, under a large Union flag and surrounded by mementos of daring British expeditions to the four corners of the earth, Giles English is well positioned to…

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