製造商: Roger Smith 年份: 2021 機芯編號: S1-N.17 錶殼號碼: No. 17 型號名稱: Series 1 材料: 18K pink gold 機芯: Manual, in-house caliber single wheel co-axial escapement, 28 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: Leather Roger Smith strap 錶扣: 18K pink gold Roger Smith pin buckle 尺寸: 38mm Diameter 簽名: Case, dial, movement, and buckle signed 配件: Accompanied by Roger Smith original certificate, ownership and specification documents, polishing cloth, leather card holder, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
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Roger Smith is in a way the standard bearer of British high horology; meticulously crafting mechanical masterpieces in his workshop on the Isle of Man to which only a happy few would have access, not by deliberate choice, but due to the limited production of 15 watches leaving his atelier each year. Roger Smith was not only the sole watchmaker the great George Daniels took on board as an apprentice, but he later collaborated with the master in working on his wristwatches. In 1998, Smith joined Daniels to work on the Millennium series of wristwatches. Once the Millennium series was completed, in 2001, Smith decided to set out on his own and create his own wristwatch. He set up a stand-alone workshop alongside Daniels’ on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea and set to work. The Series 1 was born, heavily inspired by Daniels' work, first in a rectangular case inspired by the then-recently released Arkade by A. Lange & Söhne. After the production of the rectangular Series 1 followed the Series 2, a round wristwatch with a power reserve display. In 2013, Roger Smith was invited to be part of the GREAT Britain campaign, showcasing the splendor and innovation of contemporary British watchmaking. He created a unique piece “The GREAT Britain” in platinum, with an off-centered Union Jack motif, hand-finished and highly three-dimensional.
Following this triumph, Smith says he was “inundated with requests for a time-only piece.” And thus, the new Series 1 was born, displaying only the hours, minutes, and seconds via a subsidiary seconds dial. It was meant to be the quintessential gentleman’s watch, with all of the refinement, experience, and heritage of three hundred years of British watchmaking distilled into a single 38 or 40mm round timepiece – all painstakingly hand-built and hand-finished by Roger Smith and his few trusted colleagues.The present Series 1 in pink gold with pink gold chapter ring is only one of 3 pink gold models cased in 38mm and the only one made in this case/dial combination thus adding an even greater element of collectability.
