The BREMONT LEGACY
In 2002, two English brothers with a lifelong passion for flying vintage aircraft established a company to craft beautiful pilot watches. It would be millions of pounds of investment and five long years before they’d sell their first timepiece. “When we set out on this original journey it was about bringing British watchmaking back to the UK,” explains Giles English, chatting via Zoom from a well-appointed home office in the U.K.. “We’re building an engineering brand and a luxury brand at the same time.”
From their headquarters in Henley-on-Thames, the quintessentially English town world-famous for its annual regatta, Bremont is making the case for British watchmaking. Although the Bremont name is derived from a fortuitous encounter between the brothers and a French farmer called Antoine Bremont (they crashed landed in his field), Giles is quick to clarify that the link between Antoine Bremont and Bremont watches is in name only. “He reminded us of our dad in a big way, but it was never supposed to be a dedication.” It’s the pair’s late father, Dr Euan English, an ex-Air Force pilot who tragically passed away in a plane crash in 1995, who serves as
