Garrick

This London-based firm is another English watch brand on our list that aims to help revive Britain's watchmaking legacy. David Brailsford, an entrepreneur, full-time watch collector, and horological enthusiast, founded Garrick. With his deep interest in traditional High Horology, he even collaborated with one of the most talented watchmakers in the world, Andreas Strehler, to develop an innovative hand-wound movement.

Brailsford set out to build the greatest clocks while adhering to historic British watchmaking ideals. Garrick was able to create its own high-end UT-G01 movement, which is produced and completed in the Garrick workshops in Norwich, by collaborating with Strehler and his business UhrTeil AG. This movement is specific to the Portsmouth and S1 timepieces and has everything a genuinely superb watch needs. To get it as perfect as possible, no expense or effort was spared.

Garrick currently has four collections: the Norfolk, Regulator, Portsmouth, and S1. Furthermore, Garrick allows clients to design their own watches, demonstrating that the consumer is still king and that their watches are more of a horological jewel than a plain mass-produced timekeeper. Garrick isn't afraid to go the additional mile when it comes to improvements. Whether it's heat-blued hands and screws or their own free-sprung in-house balancing wheels, the brand can demonstrate its vast knowledge in a number of ways.

Detailed information:

Founder: David Brailsford, Simon Mychlmayr
Year established: 2014
Price: from £2,100
Website: https://garrick.co.uk/