Bremont event in Surrey

[Hoofy]

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INVITATION

We are delighted to invite you and your friends to a very special evening at The Booklands Museum Aircraft Factory for the launch of the

BREMONT ARMED FORCES COLLECTION 2019 Approved by Her Majesty's Armed Forces

Meet Giles English, Co-Founder of Bremont and relive the excitement of the supersonic age and experience a memorable flight on Concorde.

Champagne and Canapes

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burrells-staines-br...

Sadly, I can't make it.

[AlasdairMc]

There’s a Concorde still flying? Or is this part as made up as Bremont’s heritage?

[85Carrera]

Does anyone actually rate Bremont watches?

They’re good at the marketing* but for the same (less?) money you get an established brand without a bought in movement.

• don’t they claim to have decided to start watchmaking after having crash landed a plane in France or something equally implausible

[lostkiwi]

I have a mate who has a small collection of watches who rates them.
He's also had Rolex, Chopard, Omega, Panerai etc so he knows what the good stuff is like.

From having looked at his and others the build quality seems excellent. To be honest I don't get the downer many have on them.

[anonymous-user]

AlasdairMc said:

There’s a Concorde still flying? Or is this part as made up as Bremont’s heritage?

The new armed forces collection of watches that were never military issue. Celebrating the proud, few weeks old link between bremont and Concorde and the armed forces and Giles’s relative’s plane crash.

[anonymous-user]

lostkiwi said:

I have a mate who has a small collection of watches who rates them.
He's also had Rolex, Chopard, Omega, Panerai etc so he knows what the good stuff is like.

From having looked at his and others the build quality seems excellent. To be honest I don't get the downer many have on them.

It’s the crazy pricing, made up history and subsequently terrible residuals mainly for me.

[Gio G]

I don't own a Bremont, but have a few friends that do and they love their watches. I attended an event a few years back where Giles English was speaking. I have to say, pretty charismatic character and really felt like buying a watch from his company. Sometimes nice to see the face (no pun intended) of the business..

I bet the event will be fun..

G

[Squadrone Rosso]

Bremont invented fake news before trump.

They should use that in their marketing.....lol

[Mosdef]

El stovey said:

The new armed forces collection of watches that were never military issue. Celebrating the proud, few weeks old link between bremont and Concorde and the armed forces and Giles’s relative’s plane crash.

Bit harsh about the plane crash, unless you’re referring to the one where they landed in Bremont rather than the one where his father was killed and his brother severely injured.

I agree though, the armed forces link seems a stretch too far. Not sure how certain the link was with USAAF.

I’ve met the brothers a couple of times, as others have said, they’re engaging and good company. I wish them luck even if the marketing is OTT.

[culminator]

I always find that those that knock their heritage don't actually have any experience of their watches. I have and own 3, along with Rolex, IWC, Omega and Cartier watches. The Bremonts that I have are easily the equal of others in my collection.

[Gio G]

culminator said:

I always find that those that knock their heritage don't actually have any experience of their watches. I have and own 3, along with Rolex, IWC, Omega and Cartier watches. The Bremonts that I have are easily the equal of others in my collection.

Indeed - haters going to hate!

G

[anonymous-user]

culminator said:

I always find that those that knock their heritage don't actually have any experience of their watches. I have and own 3, along with Rolex, IWC, Omega and Cartier watches. The Bremonts that I have are easily the equal of others in my collection.

That’s nothing to do with their heritage though.

I’m not saying they’re bad watches, I quite like them but I think they’re hugely overpriced and that’s evident in their poor residuals and the fake heritage puts me off.

It’s obviously not important to you but it is to others. It’s obviously important to bremont too otherwise they wouldn’t be making it up and trying to artificially create it with these dodgy tie ins and tall tales about the movements.

They make nice looking watches, if they just did that and stopped all the BS and just made great watches like Sinn etc and let their heritage develop naturally, and let the watches do the talking, they’d have much less people knocking them.

[Swern1]

Mosdef said:

El stovey said:

The new armed forces collection of watches that were never military issue. Celebrating the proud, few weeks old link between bremont and Concorde and the armed forces and Giles’s relative’s plane crash.

Bit harsh about the plane crash, unless you’re referring to the one where they landed in Bremont rather than the one where his father was killed and his brother severely injured.

I agree though, the armed forces link seems a stretch too far. Not sure how certain the link was with USAAF.

I’ve met the brothers a couple of times, as others have said, they’re engaging and good company. I wish them luck even if the marketing is OTT.

Some things in PH land never change
BTW the farmers name was Bremont, it's not a place.


Event looks to be fully booked or I'd go along

[Hoofy]

Swern1 said:

Some things in PH land never change
BTW the farmers name was Bremont, it's not a place.


Event looks to be fully booked or I'd go along

Are you sure? I just went to book a ticket and just had to enter my details. Normally, the button to register isn't available if it's full, isn't it?

Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 10th September 13:39

[Swern1]

Hoofy said:

Swern1 said:

Some things in PH land never change
BTW the farmers name was Bremont, it's not a place.


Event looks to be fully booked or I'd go along

Are you sure? I just went to book a ticket and just had to enter my details. Normally, the button to register isn't avaiilable if it's full, isn't it?

You're quite right, see you there !

[Hoofy]

Swern1 said:

Hoofy said:

Swern1 said:

Some things in PH land never change
BTW the farmers name was Bremont, it's not a place.


Event looks to be fully booked or I'd go along

Are you sure? I just went to book a ticket and just had to enter my details. Normally, the button to register isn't available if it's full, isn't it?

You're quite right, see you there !

Sadly, I can't make it. Had already put back a meeting to that evening.

It's a shame because I'd really like to check them out in the flesh.

[eccles]

El stovey said:

AlasdairMc said:

There’s a Concorde still flying? Or is this part as made up as Bremont’s heritage?

The new armed forces collection of watches that were never military issue. Celebrating the proud, few weeks old link between bremont and Concorde and the armed forces and Giles’s relative’s plane crash.

You've been able to buy various Squadron editions (or watches tied into various units) of the watches for years.They seem to be quite tight on who can order them with some watches being only available to aircrew, but not engineers.

[Mosdef]

Swern1 said:

Some things in PH land never change
BTW the farmers name was Bremont, it's not a place.


Event looks to be fully booked or I'd go along

Thanks for confirming, I couldn’t remember if it was the place they named the brand after but now I know!