248

All restorers are historians. It was this experience that enabled the Struthers to seek inspiration from their favourite designs from the last five hundred years of watchmaking history.

Project 248 picks up where the British industry left off in the late-nineteenth century and features the previously commercially extinct English lever escapement which was replaced by the current Swiss club tooth lever.

The shock protection is a fully functional parachute setting inspired by the design of Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1790. In their First Edition, the design of the balance references the work of George Daniels and the rocking bar keyless work of Derek Pratt. Their Second Edition incorporates wolf’s teeth gearing as found in antiquarian pieces by the likes of Patek Philippe and Louis Audemars; and used today by some of the finest independent watchmakers in the world.