2018 Farer Ponting Black GMT Limited Edition
Ref: Ponting Black
Specification
Lugs : 20mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box & Papers : Box & Papers
Case Material : Black Coated
Warranty : 12-Month Warranty
Points of Mention
This watch is sold with its original Farer Box & Paperwork. The watch comes paired with its 20mm leather strap with a signed buckle. The watch is from December 2018 and is in fantastic lightly worn condition as you can see from the photos, likely worn only a handful of times altogether. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.
The Watch
Here we have a 2018 Farer Ponting Black GMT Limited Edition of 100 pieces with a brushed and polished black DLC coated 39.5mm case that curves over your wrist with tapered lugs, a lug-to-lug length of 45mm and a case thickness of 11mm ensures a comfortable fit. On the right side, a signed bronze crown coated in black DLC, a boxed sapphire crystal AR coated sits above a matte carbon grey dial, an outer minute chapter ring surrounds Arabic numerals marking the hours coated in Super LumiNova and smaller 24-hour numerals on the inside ring, at 3 o’clock a round date window, blue syringe style hands are Mint Super-Luminova infilled complemented by a green arrow tipped sweeping second hand and a red GMT hand. At 12 o’clock we have the Farer motif with GMT Automatic printed at 6 o’clock completing this colourful travellers companion. On the reverse a screwed-down exhibition case back showcasing the automatic ETA Cal. 2893-2, 21 jewels, beating at 28,800 beats per hour, this quality movement has a skeletonised rotor, hand winding and hacking seconds for your convenience, to adjust the GMT hand pull the crown to position 1 and rotate clockwise to move the hand in hourly increments and turn anti-clockwise to adjust the date. The watch comes fitted on its 20mm Farer leather strap with a black DLC-signed buckle and the watch comes with its Farer presentation box and paperwork.
Personal Note
Before getting this watch I had never seen the Ponting Black GMT by Farer before and I absolutely love the design and feel on the wrist! All black watches are true "marmite", you will either love them on or you won't... I would highly recommend this one if you want to dive into an all-black watch but don't want to break the bank doing so, especially if it ends up not being for you! Though, I suspect this will easily surprise you on and off the wrist and stick around.
The Brand
In 2015 Farer, an independent British watch brand was founded by Stuart Finlayson, Jono Holt, Ben Lewin, and Paul Sweetenham. Operating out of Ascot, Berkshire in the UK. All having a passion for watches, their first creations were 9 quartz watches. In 2016 they launched three automatic watches named after British Royal Navy ships. Building on this success in 2019 they released two land speed record-themed watches and later a collection of chronographs.