Bremont is an all-new watch brand offering a range of highly-developed timepieces of exceptional quality. Each model is designed to exacting specifications, while possessing enduring aesthetic values.

Although Bremont watches are made using only the finest quality Swiss components and are hand-assembled by skilled watchmakers in a dedicated atelier in Biel-Bienne, they contain something which no comparable timepiece can match: an air of quintessential Britishness derived from the background of the brand's founders, brothers Nick and Giles English.

The English brothers are professional aviators who have lived in and around aircraft since childhood, thanks to the enthusiasm of their father, the late Euan English.

Euan English was an exceptional man: an adored father, a talented engineer and, notably, an RAF aerobatic champion and display pilot of the highest calibre. It is to Euan English, who died in March 1995 while practicing for an air display in a North American Harvard, that his sons dedicated the time, thought and energy that have resulted in the Bremont watch - a watch of which the brothers are proud and of which they believe their father would be proud as well.

 Nick & Giles English
The Bremont Watch Company

Part of the impetus to create this watch stemmed, perhaps surprisingly, from gratitude. Although Euan English lost his life in that Harvard, his elder son, Nick, was spared: he was flying with his father and sustained multiple injuries in the crash. As the aircraft spiralled to the ground, Giles could only look on before running to help his brother, simultaneously creating a fraternal bond which can never be broken.

The following year, Nick and Giles were back in the air, flying across in a 60-year-old plane. Bad weather forced them to make an emergency landing in a pea field in the

As fate would have it, the field was owned by a former WWII pilot who, despite his considerable age, remained as passionate about aircraft as Nick and Giles.

Also passionate about horology, he assembled a house full of clocks, and wore a particularly special wristwatch - the one given to him by his father. His name, Antoine Bremont, was chosen to grace this new family of watches because his passions in life exactly matched those of the brothers.

Stories for Years to Come

Perhaps he was an overly-sentimental man, but M. Bremont believed a much-worn, much-loved wristwatch is invariably party to more experiences than any other precious object we own.

The brothers took this on board, and were determined to make a watch which would last more than a lifetime. To that end, it had to be made from the best available materials using the most tried and tested techniques. Indeed, this led to the company’s maxim: all Bremont timepieces would be tested above and beyond the demands placed upon conventional wristwatches.

As a result, the stainless steel case of each Bremont is made to an exceptional hardness of 2000 Vickers, meaning it is nine times as durable as an average steel watch case. The anti-reflective, convex sapphire crystal is equally hard and, during the arduous chronometer certification process carried out by COSC, each Bremont watch returned an accuracy level of 99.998%.
 

The Bremont Family

The initial Bremont watch family comprises three chronograph models: The 1-P. For a classic ‘three-hander’, Bremont will offer the BS-S1 and BS-F1. As would be expected, each should be regarded as a professional quality timepiece which is sufficiently accurate and durable enough to be used for activities ranging from flying to yachting to mountaineering. In addition to laboratory testing, each model has been tried and quantified 'in the field' by professional adventurers, including the actors Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman, mountaineer Bear Grylls, round-the-world yachtsman Mike Golding, Everest climber Jake Meyer and, of course, aviators Nick and Giles English and their fellow professionals, including pilots of the elite US Navy Test Pilot School.

Find out about future Bremont watches on their Official Bremont Online Forum here: Bremont Forum

Below is a 2007 sample of the current stockists of Bremont watches.

Harrods
The Fine Jewellery Room
Knightsbridge, London
Tel : +44 (0)20 7730 1234 Ext: 4071

Selfridges
Oxford Street, London
W1K 2TY
Tel : +44 (0)8708 377 377

Martin & Co
19 The Promenade
Gloucestershire
GL50 1LP
Tel : +44 (0)1242 522 821

The Watch Gallery
129 Fulham road, London
Tel : +44 (0)20 7581 3239

Kenjo Jewellers
10 West 57th Street
10019 New York
USA