We service and finish each movement in Britain, with Côtes de Genève striping and Rhodium plating. This accurate movement was first designed in the 1970s, and its reliability has ensured its continuing popularity today. The Brunswick is powered by a Swiss made, manual winding ETA 7001 movement.
Each set of hands is subtly skeletonised before being polished to a mirror shine and plated in Rhodium to match the numerals.įears is one of only a handful of British watch brands that construct watch hands in-house, in the UK. The Brunswick Blue’s distinctive ‘ Fears’-shaped hands are finished by a watchmaker, giving them a depth and detail not found in mass-produced, stamped watch hands. The alternate dots receive the same treatment, catching the light perfectly. The numerals are applied to the dial by hand, machined from brass and mirror polished before being coated in Rhodium to give them a brilliant shine. The hand-brushed ring where the numerals sit is unique to each watch, changing colour in the light. This clever optical illusion is achieved through three layers and two surface finishes combined with a galvanic blue coating. At first glance, the Germany made dial appears to have a two-tone sector layout, but when tilted it becomes a tri-tone – all from one colour. The Brunswick Blue features an extraordinary Fears Blue dial that undergoes 56 production processes. Made in Switzerland, the crown’s grooves catch the light, adding a touch of radiance to the edge of the case. The Brunswick is manually wound each day using a traditional ‘onion’-shaped winding crown. The depth of the polish belies the sophistication of the machinery and the skill of the operator. Its glancing curves are machined from 316L stainless steel in Germany, to a level usually reserved for precious metals.
The Brunswick’s elegant 38mm cushion-shaped case has only one flat surface - the rear sapphire glass. It takes its inspiration from a gentleman’s cushion case watch in the Fears archives, first made in 1924. Graceful and complex, the curvaceous Brunswick Blue is an exacting object to create.
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