I had a great day meeting up with my brother at the British Watchmakers Event today.

Lots of brands I haven’t seen before. A couple which caught my eye were Anoma and Apiar. And I like several pieces by Fears and Farer.

I also had a nice chat with Roger Smith who was very relaxed.

And both my brother and I managed to pick up a Studiounderdog Fears Gimlet each. So a good day all round.

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I’ve just received a new watch today and since this could be the last watch I purchase for a long time, I thought I’d do a SOTC. But with a focus on my independent brand watches, rather than the mainstream ones.

Over the past few years, I’ve found my preferences moving more towards independent which have quite unusual or distinctive dials. These come from all over the world including Japan, Germany, Malaysia and even a couple of Swiss ones.

I’m posting this on Tapatalk which limits the number of images in each post, so I’ve decided to do a separate post for each watch, going upwards in my order of preference.

So the first one is a Sinn 556 aquamarine. I wanted a Sinn for a while but wasn’t convinced by their diver watches so when this came out with its cool light blue dial I went for it.

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My new Kurono has just arrived in time for Christmas. I think it looks great with some good depth to the dial. Compliments my other Kuronos nicely

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