The Light - The Dark One watch is a sleek wristwatch featuring a matte grey dial with minimalist design elements. It has white luminescent hands, with a small red-tipped seconds and GMT hand. The watch has a black rubber strap and a DLC case with "SCHOFIELD" subtly printed on the dial.
Two Schofield Light Field Watches displayed side by side on a white background. The top watch features a dark grey face with black and red accents, a black case, and a black leather strap. The bottom watch has a light grey face with dark grey and red accents, a light grey case, and a grey leather strap.
Close-up of a sleek, modern field watch known as Light ✦ The Dark One, featuring a dark metal case and a black leather strap. The gray watch face has minimalist design elements and subtle markings, with the crown adding a touch of elegance. The background is a textured, worn metal surface, enhancing the watch's contemporary aesthetic.
This image shows a Schofield wristwatch with a black leather strap, a grey dial, and white hour markers and hands. The watch has a minimalistic, modern design.
A black wristwatch is positioned on its side, displaying the back of the watch case. The Lighthouse design on a Schofield Light watch case back features an engraving of a lighthouse with the text "SWC Light" and some small stars and waves. The watch has a black leather strap.
The Lighthouse design on a Schofield Light watch case back features an crystal printed with a lighthouse design with the text "SWC Light" and some small stars, the moon and waves.
A wristwatch with a silver minimalist design rests on a scratched metal surface. The watch face, known as "Light ✦ The Dark One," features a subtle grey gradient with slim black hour markers and hands. The grey leather strap complements the watch's modern, understated look, bringing light elegance to your wrist.
Featuring a white dial and grey hands. The Schofield Light Field Watch has a black leather strap with white stitching, and it rests on a wooden surface. The background is dark, highlighting the watch as the light subtly reflects off its crystal and bezel.
  1. The Light - The Dark One watch is a sleek wristwatch featuring a matte grey dial with minimalist design elements. It has white luminescent hands, with a small red-tipped seconds and GMT hand. The watch has a black rubber strap and a DLC case with "SCHOFIELD" subtly printed on the dial.
  2. Two Schofield Light Field Watches displayed side by side on a white background. The top watch features a dark grey face with black and red accents, a black case, and a black leather strap. The bottom watch has a light grey face with dark grey and red accents, a light grey case, and a grey leather strap.
  3. Close-up of a sleek, modern field watch known as Light ✦ The Dark One, featuring a dark metal case and a black leather strap. The gray watch face has minimalist design elements and subtle markings, with the crown adding a touch of elegance. The background is a textured, worn metal surface, enhancing the watch's contemporary aesthetic.
  4. This image shows a Schofield wristwatch with a black leather strap, a grey dial, and white hour markers and hands. The watch has a minimalistic, modern design.
  5. A black wristwatch is positioned on its side, displaying the back of the watch case. The Lighthouse design on a Schofield Light watch case back features an engraving of a lighthouse with the text "SWC Light" and some small stars and waves. The watch has a black leather strap.
  6. The Lighthouse design on a Schofield Light watch case back features an crystal printed with a lighthouse design with the text "SWC Light" and some small stars, the moon and waves.
  7. A wristwatch with a silver minimalist design rests on a scratched metal surface. The watch face, known as "Light ✦ The Dark One," features a subtle grey gradient with slim black hour markers and hands. The grey leather strap complements the watch's modern, understated look, bringing light elegance to your wrist.
  8. Featuring a white dial and grey hands. The Schofield Light Field Watch has a black leather strap with white stitching, and it rests on a wooden surface. The background is dark, highlighting the watch as the light subtly reflects off its crystal and bezel.

Light ✦ The Dark One

General purpose field watches. After 15 years making watches with the same case shape and dimensions, the Light brings a whole re-design, from the ground up. At 40 mm diameter we now have a wholly new offering with no less complexity and detail as seen in other models. Lighthouses have been Schofield’s inspiration for the last 15 years and these two new watches reflect their austerity, endurance and precision. Built for legibility and reliability – a functional watch with subtle military cues. Powered by an automatic, mechanical Seiko movement with 24hr GMT. Both Light colours come with the same two straps and one buckle that matches the case colour. The Light field watch comes in two colours, aptly named The Light One and The Dark One. Both limited to 150 pieces. The price shown is with UK VAT, if you are outside of the UK, VAT will be deducted at the checkout.

£2,190.00

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WHY IT IS CALLED THE LIGHT – A GENERAL PURPOSE FIELD WATCH

The Light is not lite but plays on the fact that this is the most inexpensive watch we have ever made. However, designing it to be economical was, and is, impossible for Giles Ellis. By using a movement that although absolutely brilliant – as so many of Seiko’s products are – is reasonably priced compared to say the ubiquitous ETA 2824-2, helps, but not much. Another way is to make more, which we did. But way more important and relevant is Light, as in the use of the Lighthouse – the home of Schofield – and the coast, represented by these trustworthy beacons. The Beam-of-Light logo is used in multiple places, for the first time in the crown, then on the dial and case back. General Purpose, because that helps define its reason to exist. Whether you wear it climbing to the lamp room is up to you, but you could. The Light can take it. Field Watch is a pretty broad category for watches and links with military usage. At first glance the simplicity of the dial and case work would be akin to many other field watches but in fact the complexity and refinement in the design is revealed on closer inspection. Military cues – the box sapphire crystal, high contrast (where it matters) monochrome colour ways, asymmetrical dial print, full numerical hour index and a crown at 4, matt finishing and robust strap and buckle.

CASE

Although field watches can be quite pedestrian, this new design is anything but. A heavy box sapphire crystal is mounted in a bezel that is vertically brushed to catch the light. The surrounding metal on the top surface is a compound curve, dropping away steeply at the bezel and sweeping towards the lugs. Like our larger model watches the strap is rebated under a lip, this creates an all-in-one integrated feel and ensures it sits comfortably on all wrist sizes. The crown at 4 o’clock is another point of difference with other Schofields and features ‘wheel arches’ machined into the case above and below which serve as crown protectors; the crown is fully rebated when screwed down. The case back is printed on the inside of a mineral crystal and has tiny apertures through to the movement, the lamp of the lighthouse, the horizon and some stars that twinkle as they catch the light. This artwork is also aligned 12 – 6 and the case back is a screw-in type but with no opening holes. Apart from the bezel, the whole case has a fine matt finish. The Dark One is PVD coated gunmetal grey. Both cases have further anti-fingerprint coatings applied.

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STRAP

Both Light colours come with the same two straps, the highly coveted and best in class India Rubber, lined with India Rubber, for smarts and water resistance and a new grey leather lined with bright red calf. These straps are branded Sugar Free. Sugar Free is a new sister company to Schofield and deals wholly with straps that are not 24mm between the lugs (all other Schofield watches). The Light straps are 22mm between the lugs and do not taper, so they fit normal Schofield buckles. The buckle for the Light is the elaborate Obscura buckle, a donation from our most expensive offering.

All Sugar Free straps are the Uni strap size. It falls between our traditional long and regular sized straps.

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GENERAL

  • General purpose Field watches. The Dark One
  • Movement – Seiko NH34A
  • Movement – GMT, hours, mins and hacking sweep secs
  • Power reserve – 44 hours
  • Diameter – 27.4mm
  • Height – 5.32mm
  • Jewels – 24
  • Frequency – 21,600 VPH 4Hz
  • Case – Stainless steel (The Dark One PVD)
  • Case – Anti-fingerprint coating
  • Diameter – 40mm
  • Crystal diameter – 32mm
  • Bezel – Brushed 12 – 6, 36mm diameter
  • Height including lugs – 13.5mm
  • Width between lugs – 22mm
  • Lug length – 48mm
  • Weight with strap and buckle – 96 grammes
  • Crystal – Box sapphire, multiple AR coatings
  • Case Back – Printed mineral crystal. Flush fit
  • Case Back – Artwork orientated 12-6
  • Case Back – Screw in with no opening holes
  • Crown – Double o-ring screw in type with nail groove
  • Crown – Engraved with Beam of Light logo
  • Dials – Split-level, painted, lacquered
  • Date – None
  • Luminescence – Super-LumiNova C3 green emission
  • Hands – Lacquered greys
  • Straps – 2x 22mm straight cut with QR spring bars
  • Straps – Made by SUGAR FREE (sister website)
  • Buckle – Obscura type, thumbnail
  • Box – Machined cork and Valchromat
  • Serial – Limited to 150 watches in each colour
  • Water resistance – 200m
  • Warranty – 2 years
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