The Fears x Topper Edition Series II: Tribute to Northern California range is housed in an uprated Brunswick 40 case with a screw down crown featuring the Fears cipher that helps increase water resistance to 150metres (15ATM). The elegant yet tough case perfectly suits the active feel of the watches and are enhanced with the first use of a La Joux-Perret movement in a Fears watch: the Swiss-made G101. This modern movement features automatic winding via a custom decorated rotor, Côtes de Genève decoration with Rhodium plating and blued screws. Each with a hand-finished dial made in Germany and filled with X1 grade Super-LumiNova in Switzerland.
SERIES II
Tribute to Northern California
Each watch capture a different aspect of winter in Northern California through their dials featuring “California” style formation
LIMITED TO 25 NUMBERED PIECES EACH
SPECIFICATIONS
CASE
316L Stainless Steel, 40mm x 40mm cushion-shaped (depth 11.06mm to top of domed sapphire glass). Screw down, signed crown. Closed caseback. 150m (15ATM) water resistant.
MOVEMENT
Top-grade La Joux-Perret G101, automatic winding, 25 jewels, 28,800vph (4Hz) and 68 hr power reserve. No date mechanism. Finished with Côtes de Genève, Rhodium plating and blued screws. Custom decorated rotor featuring the ‘Bristol Flower’
FUNCTIONS
Time with central seconds.
DIAL
“California” style configuration featuring CNC-milled, diamond polished hand-applied indices filled with X1-grade Super-LumiNova (blue emission).
Whiteout – Guilloche stamped surface with white lacquer coating. Two colour printing in charcoal grey and orange. Black-Gold plated indices.
Winter Lake – Wet-look lacquer built up in multiple layers. Two colour printing in white and pale blue. Glossy-white painted indices.
Pacific – Wet-look lacquer built up in multiple layers. Two colour printing in gilt and yellow. 18ct yellow gold-plated indices.
Snowed In – White and Green painted dial with printed dots. Three colour printing in white, dark green and copper. Matte-white painted indices.
GLASS
316L Stainless Steel, 40mm x 40mm cushion-shaped (depth 11.06mm to top of domed sapphire glass). Screw down, signed crown. Closed caseback. 150m (15ATM) water resistant.
HANDS
‘Fears’ hands – filled with X1-grade Super-LumiNova (blue emission).
Whiteout - Black-Gold plated with orange painted seconds hand.
Winter Lake - Glossy-white painted.
Pacific - 18ct Yellow Gold plated.
Snowed In - Matte-white painted.
STRAP
Hand made in Belgium and lined in Alcantara®.
Whiteout – Orange textile fabric with contrasting white stitching
Winter Lake – Blue nubuck buffalo leather with contrasting white stitching
Pacific – White sailcloth with contrasting dark green stitching
Snowed In – Dark brown calf leather with tonal stitching
LUG WIDTH
20mm
SERIAL NUMBER
Individually numbered, sequentially
MODEL REFERENCE
BS24000A
About the Fears Watch Company Limited
The Fears Watch Company Limited, known as “Fears”, is one of Britain’s oldest family-run watch companies, first established in 1846 by Edwin Fear in Bristol. The business ran for 130 years until it closed in 1976. In 2016, the year the business would have celebrated its 170th anniversary, it was re-established by Edwin Fear’s great-great-great- grandson, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill. Fears today is located in its historical home city of Bristol, where the watches are designed, before being hand built in Britain.
The Brunswick collection takes its name from Brunswick Square in Bristol where the company’s export warehouse was based from 1920 - 1942. The Archival collection includes proportional re-creations of pieces from the extensive Fears archive that use new-old-stock vintage movements. The Garrick collection includes watches made in collaboration with fellow British watchmaker Garrick, located in Norwich.