![]() “We actually put months and months into this design,” Broadfoot says. Timeless has worked with other brands, such as NOMOS, on custom limited editions, and, rather than settling for a simple logo or color swap, is heavily involved in the design. Broadfoot is the owner of Timeless Luxury Watches in Frisco, Texas, a Bremont retailer. The U2/T may be made in England, but it was the brainchild of an American, Dan Broadfoot. Lending a vintage aesthetic is the gold, “aged” color of the luminescent markers and hands, the latter framed in blued steel. This gives the matte black dial a clean simplicity made even cleaner by the absence of any other wording besides the Bremont name and propeller logo. And in keeping with the basic tool watches worn by World War II flyers, for the first time on a Bremont, the date function is eliminated. But instead of the elapsed time ring found on the U2, this one gets a more useful 12-hour scale for tracking a second time zone. So what would a mid-century pilot’s watch from Bremont have looked like? Maybe something like this: the limited-edition U2/T.īased on Bremont’s existing U2, a watch made for the small cadre of spy plane pilots, the U2/T retains the basic architecture of that watch - a three-part 43mm case with knurled middle barrel (this one bronze-colored) and an inner rotating ring operated by a second crown. But admittedly, the golden age of the pilot’s watch was the 1940s and ’50s, when oversized wrist timers were strapped over flight jacket sleeves in the cold cockpits of Spitfires and F-86 Sabres. Bremont, the UK-based watch brand, has largely built its reputation by making handsome and highly capable pilot’s watches that draw on the company founders’ aviation background, and through partnerships with ejection-seat maker Martin-Baker and plane-building juggernaut Boeing.
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