Bremont's Tough Love

While aviation is undoubtedly at the core of Bremont’s heritage with watches such as the Bremont U-2, Bremont BC, Supermarine and MBII – it also informs the rigorous tests Bremont’s watches undergo.

All Bremont watches are constructed with super-hardened steel (typically 9x harder than standard steel cases). Heat-treated, coated with carbon and bombarded with electrons – the resulting steel is highly scratch resistant, equivalent to 2000Hv on the Vickers hardness scale. The sapphire crystal also exhibits a similar hardness value – highly scratch resistant, the convex crystal is layered with a series of anti-reflective coatings reducing reflection to less than 0.5%

Every Bremont watch is chronometer tested – 15 days of temperature and usage tests submitted to the ‘Controle Officiel Suisse des Chronometeres’. The average daily variation rate must be between -4 and +6 seconds. With 86,400 seconds in a single day, this gives Bremont’s watches an accuracy in the region of 99.998%. The resulting COSC certificate accompanies each watch.

Such attention to detail runs through the heart of each Bremont watch, now available online at TIME².