12/9/2023 0 Comments Roger w smith series 2The other British watchmakers like Peter Speake-Marin make his watches in the Swiss style and in Switzerland, while the Irish McGonigle brothers do make their watches with a certain Celtic style, but still quite Swiss in the implementation. And the very English Roger Smith Series 2.Ī rather interesting watch, and the only wristwatch currently almost entirely made in Great Britain. ![]() Shoes, which are also a grand British industrial tradition seated in Northampton. Roger tells us that the same finishing is performed on the parts of the movement which are under the dial. As seen in the movement, the bridge holding the power reserve mechanism is one such steel bridge, and is black polished. Quite like Roger.īlack specular polishing is performed on all the steel and gold components. Somehow it reminds us of the traditional English gentleman, who is discrete, quiet, and unassuming. Gilt frosted finished plates give the movement a more understated look and perhaps less glamorous feel than the more commonly seen Swiss style of plates which are rhodium plated brass or maillechort and finished with Côtes de Genève, and its variants. All the other screws securing the bridges and cocks are also hand flamed to a deep blue-purple hue which provides a nice visual contrast to the gilt plates. The movement also employs gold chatons to hold the rubies and these chatons are secured by hand flamed screws. Of note is that the entire wheel and escapement is made in Isle of Man, with the exception of the hairspring which is purchased.įinishing on the movement is also classical English style, with frosted gilt plates. By combining two wheels into one, he guaranteed concentricity and angular orientation between the teeth and arbour, and improved the escapement performance. The system used in the Series 2 uses only one wheel instead of two in the original Daniels system, and was pioneered by Roger himself. Roger worked on the co-axial escapement since entering the Daniels studio in 1998, and continued to work and perfect the system. Indeed the escapement can be made to run without any lubrication, although in practice, a small amount is employed. The main advantage of the co-axial being that it becomes impervious to deterioration of the lubricant. The principle feature is that the escapement transmits power to the oscillator via a direct impulse, and avoids the sliding impulse of the Swiss Anchor escapement system. The co-axial escapement was conceived by George Daniels in 1975. The escapement is a single wheel co-axial system developed by Roger Smith. The escapement of the Roger Smith Series 2. Lange learnt this craft from the English when he did his Journeyman years in England. The German school of watchmaking, a tradition started by Ferdiand Adolph Lange in 1845 also employs the three quarter plate for the same reasons. It gives great rigidity to the movement – this was a traditional feature used solely for the highest quality British work. A large three quarter plate adorns almost the entire case back, covering the ratchet wheel, click work and crown wheel. ![]() Designed from ground up, and made completely in-house, the movement is made using the traditional crafts prescribed by the Daniels Method. The movement is where Roger spends a considerable amount of time in. The hands are not flat, but 3 dimensional and gives an appearance of strength. The result is hands which are very legible, and have a strong look. The hands are sculpted from a sheet of material 0.5mm thick, and given a final hand polishing. This traditional method of construction is very time consuming as each part is hand cut, hand finished and hand attached, but it also means that the dial has an infinite lifespan, and the dial is a work of art from both an engineering perspective as well as an aesthetic one. The dial background is flame whitened prior to the fitting of the hand grained chapter rings. The lettering, numerals are also cut by hand. The base dial is hand g uilloché on a Rose and Straight line engine. And the contrast to the lacquered numerals and the flamed whitened dial. Note the thick hands, which make legibility very good. ![]() A wrist shot, shows off the dial and its magnificence.
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