
Ultimate Christmas List | No. 486
Evening all. Just a quick and loose note on what we have for Christmas right now. Pens, we have quite a few colours and materials in the shop that are not online – email in if you want to see…
Evening all. Just a quick and loose note on what we have for Christmas right now. Pens, we have quite a few colours and materials in the shop that are not online – email in if you want to see…
One of my jobs is to share my enthusiasm for tiny details. Let’s start with how Schofield created the best thumbnail buckle, possibly ever. Tiny, tiny things that matter because they make the world more beautiful. The brief for all…
A Christmas watch straps special but first up a dial blank, in the early stages, un-plated and not yet filled with Super-LumiNova, and that is what those outer channels are for – serious lume! Individually filled with a hypodermic syringe.…
We have a secret, just we three, The robin, and I, and the sweet cherry-tree; The bird told the tree, and the tree told me, And nobody knows it but just us three. But of course the robin knows it…
Evening all. How about this? Penned by Mr Q after the Waterford Festival of Time! He admits it is a little contrived to get the initial letters to work – I think it is fab. For discerning watch collectors…
Evening all! A brief Pips tonight as just moments ago I was lecturing final year BSc/BA product design students at the University of Sussex for their ‘Design Philosophy’ module. A refined ‘How to Design a Beautiful Thing’ was, I am…
Evening all! I am really sorry that there were not more Telemarks last week but a limited edition is a limited edition. I think the one for sale would have sold 20 times! A customer asked if I made an…
Evening all. Check this out! The Black Cherry; ceramic coated steel, Japanese Edition B5. We are only making two, this one is sold. There is one other available – email if you are interested or want the full spec (you…
Evening all. From Mr L – “The whole experience from meeting you, going for the Black Cherry, the visit, the straps, the deal, the waiting, the arrival – has all been so so enjoyable. Why the **** I waited on…
Evening all! So tonight we look at cork boxes and the stars! The Obscura is around the corner! Tonight I am showing you the case back, clearly this is a drawing but I have the real thing in my mitts…
Before the pink watches – In a brief moment the rain stopped. A Drop fell on the Apple Tree – Another – on the Roof – A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves – And made the Gables laugh –…
Evening all! This Pipage is too introduce the New Black Cat Watch – I go away tomorrow for a week and the ocean liner that is Schofield will have to drift without navigation. Oh-boy, today has been a rush! I…
Evening all! Let’s start with some Schofield events – ‘save the dates’. On the 16th of September we are doing the Best of British, RedBar watch show in Brighton. You need to be a member of RedBar, but we will…
Evening all! A pips about Designer watches? Having returned from a Welsh reset, I am thrown back into the maw of Schofield; this is sent to you on a new service hence the ever so slightly new look. The Six…
The important Pip is about Clerkenwell Design Week below but let’s start with a spring poem, but that’s the feeling now the sun is out. These are our wild native Daffodils or Lent Lilis and are unusual to find growing…
Considering watches for designers is what we are up to, it really is not that thrilling apart from the odd titbit I can share regarding new releases which will not happen fully until much later this year, and there is…
Let’s talk Ti watches and more specifically – titanium. Discovered in Cornwall in 1791, and there we have a nice link to the Blacklamp Carbon watch we made which has a structure akin to the crazy geology of the cliffs of…
Evening all! What a fortnight we have had since the last Pips! Almost a new website. A complete rebuild. It looks much the same because I like the way it looks but now much cleaner. It should load much faster so…
Evening all. Much to my surprise many of you liked the Undercurrents article on black watches that went out last Sunday. In fact many of you inquired about a Blacklamp Evo. It is a long way off yet;Â I did not…
Evening all! You will be pleased to know that I have been busy. I’m not sure the fruits of my work will be seen for a while, this is watchmaking. Cool stuff takes a long time. But I wanted you…