The Marine Chronometer Company has always done things a little differently. Did you know though that we are becoming completely carbon neutral via an offset with something else I’ve been working on. And not just slightly carbon neutral.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-vote-your-head-heart-wallet-lorne-gifford/
It’s a linked-in article, and please feel free to ‘linked-in’ with me.
FE-134 on the wrist of its owner, Peter, makes it to the top in a record time of 2 hours and 28 minutes (although it looks like quite a high mountain, so may be it was 14 hours 28 minutes).
FE-144 is reviewed at https://wristwatchreview.co.uk/marine-chronometer-company-field-engineer-chronograph-review.
It's actually FE-000 on the written review and FE-144 on the video review as Mike, owner of WristWatchReview, liked the Field Engineer so much that he bought one.
David collecting FE-148 from The Gables.
Mike collecting Field Engineer number 143 from The Clock Gallery.
The Field Engineer is not rated as a diving chronograph. It’s engineered for high water and dust resistance and each chronograph is pressure tested, but I use a floating crown to ensure high shock resistance rather than the screw down crown necessary for diving rating. Swimming pool, Yes. Diving No. (Incidentally hot showers are a bit of a No as well as hot water expands metals and soapy water has low surface tension and can penetrate seals.
That said, a little bit of shallow water commercial diving is a good opportunity to verify my own Field Engineer is still waterproof to a reasonable depth, and Shaun kindly obliged.
The idea was easy; ‘the best chronographs deserve the best straps, and the best straps have to be beautiful, comfortable and built to last’.
Execution tends to be a little more difficult and so, for instance, it turns out that a 3d printed lug core needs to be fabricated in two parts, using materials with slightly different mechanical properties.
The superb Teju leather standard fit straps from John in Munich will, in due course, be supplemented by a crocodile and saddle leather option made in the UK. Both are hand-made, both are the best in the world.
The difference between a waterproof watch and a diving computer, racing a donkey and some pretty decent hotel security.
And a lesson in the difficulty of 'visa-on-arrival'.
Six and a half years after it was built, serial number 1 has just been upgraded from O-series to OO-specification, including 775M2 calibre modifications.
Recent watch reviews from Field Engineer owners, with some excellent photographs, video’s and discussion:
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?428569-Watch-Review-Offshore-Professional-Field-Engineer
And a rather nice quote from one review: "I know what good quality looks like, and by any standards this is a watch that punches well above its weight. First of all, it’s absolutely beautiful. I know Lorne makes a lot of the fact that the design is about classical purity and is not supposed to make concessions to fashion, but however you look at it, this thing’s stunning."
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