Actually I would be interested to buy 100% pure British made wristwatch no matter what it takes

I dont want compromises.

100% pure British made

100% all the way serious

0% imperfections with 0% flaws

100% pure British horologist and rare( actively functioning company)

Wait times are larger. I can wait and I command you to take more time to produce more intricate details

I really support British and German Watchmakers and horology unlike Swiss ones

He was Swiss by birth, but spent most of his life in France

Wasn’t Breguet a frenchman?

Hi. Bremont mostly use Swiss movements, so you can definitely not say they’re an English watch. However, they have recently developed their own movement which are used in certain models; these start with the designation name H1. They are made in small quanties of up to 200 pieces e.g. Audley. As a 100% English timepiece, if you can find one, buy it, as they will certainly increase in value in the coming years.

Hi Karrar

The short answer is no. The Swiss watchmaking industry is so far advanced that there is no hope of Britain ever catching up with them. I think the best we can hope for at the moment is to emulate what the German watchmaking industry has accomplished within the past two decades, but at the moment this is still a far off dream. There is currently no centralised area for watchmaking in Britain, brands tend to not cooperate with one another, and there is little help for manufacturing from the British government. British watch brands currently account for around 0.3% of global watch sales.

Automation and AI may play a role in helping small brands manufacture parts locally in the future, but there needs to be a significant shift in government policy and investment before British watches are a serious part of the global watch market.

Colin

Hi,

I first made this list in 2011 to help promote British watchmaking. Ten years later, in 2021, GBW was added to the list as I was now making watches for sale to the public myself. If you feel that any of the other brands are misrepresented in the listing, then please let me know and I’d be happy to amend them.

Hopefully you’ll be pleased to hear that, yes, 100% of The Few watch is made is Britain – including the sapphire glass. You can choose to have a Swiss, rather than British, movement fitted – and obviously that would affect the percentage of the watch that was made here. Some consumable items such as gaskets, luminous paint and springbars are not made in Britain and I am very transparent to my customers about that.

You can split hairs forever. The steel I use to make the case of the watch comes from a British steel mill, but perhaps the aluminium used to make the original WW2 Spitfire was a war-time import – probably from the USA. Was the Spitfire not a British aircraft?

Colin

I think it’s rather off-colour being judge and jury of all the other brands out there, whilst using it to market your own – albeit very nice – pieces too.

Hi Leon, that’s a fairly easy answer unfortunately, in that there are currently none. Some watch brands will produce their owns dials or hands, or make other customisations, however they don’t offer these services out.