While most of the big brands only started to produce their movements in-house after many years, Garrick Watchmakers is an exceptional if not unique case: in less than nine years, it has produced two calibres entirely in-house, earning a nomination for the Grand Prix d'Horologerie de Genève 2021, and is now aiming for new complications.
An independent brand established in Norfolk in 2013, Garrick's founders are David Brailsford, on call 24 hours a day or nearly so to listen to customers' requests, who can follow the creation of the watch ordered step by step and personalise it in every detail, and Simon Michlmayr, an experienced watchmaker.
There are six models in the catalogue, all hand-wound solotempo with central or off-centre seconds. The S2 is equipped with the manufacture calibre UT-G03, with deadbeat seconds display. On sale at £16,600.
The S4 model, here in a version with a frosted dial and hot-blued hands, has a power reserve display. On sale at £5,995.
The S6 model, here in the version with a frosted dial and guilloché seconds counter, is on sale for £6,495.
The Regulator MK II, here with a blue guilloché dial, has continuous seconds between 10 and 11 o'clock and a visible balance at 6 o'clock. On sale for £10,995.
The cases are in steel or gold, the dials, guilloché or skeletonised, in gold or rhodium-plated silver. For the movements, some models adopt the in-house UT- G01 and UT-G05 calibres, with a free-sprung balance on the dial side, others the modified ETA 6498 calibres (like the BF03 in the photo) and decorated by Simon Michlmayr. Website and e-commerce: www.garrick.co.uk, Instagram: @garrickwatchco.
