2024 Arnold & Son Nebula 41.5 18ct Red Gold Limited Edition

Here we have a beautiful 2024 Arnold & Son Nebula Limited Edition of 88 pieces. Featuring a polished and brushed 41.5mm 18ct Red Gold round case that sits comfortably on your wrist with curved stepped lugs. Its curvaceous flanks lead to a lug-to-lug length of 47mm and a case thickness of just 9mm, giving the watch an impressive wrist presence. On the right side, we have a coin-edged signed crown. The slim, smooth stepped bezel holds a slightly domed sapphire crystal above an incredible skeletonised open-worked movement dial. An outer chapter ring features 18ct red gold arrow indexes marking the hours, symmetrical polished and brushed 18ct red gold triangular inward facing bridges create a pleasing visual aesthetic, screwed to a brushed anthracite grey mainplate finished in a galvanic NAC treatment, elegant 18ct red gold faceted syringe hands sit majestically in the centre above a 18ct red gold running seconds subdial at 7 o’clock, at noon we have the Arnold & Son motif, on the reverse, the details of the watch and Swiss hallmarks are engraved around its edge, its stunning skeletonised open-worked manually wound A&S Cal. 5201, 24 jewels, beating at 21,600 beats per hour movement is protected by a sapphire crystal, the NAC treated mainplate features the decorative Arnold & Son guilloché ‘Rayons de la Gloire’ pattern. It comes paired with its 20mm Arnold & Son leather strap and 18ct red gold pin buckle. This watch is sold with its Arnold & Son box and paperwork.

This watch is sold with its Arnold & Son box and paperwork. It comes paired with its 20mm Arnold & Son leather strap and 18ct red gold pin buckle. The watch is from September 2024 and is in worn condition, but overall it is in very fair condition, as you can see from the photographs. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.

This is the Arnold & Son Nebula 41.5mm in 18ct Red Gold and limited to just 88 pieces total. Featuring a beautifully skeletonised dial that is finished flawlessly, Arnold & Son really are underappreciated in today's watch world. That being said, this retails for a whopping £30,800, and our price for this 2024 example is nearly half of that, making this a great opportunity to add one of these rare gems to your collection today. I would not hesitate to book an appointment to see this in the metal for yourself!

Reference : 1NEAR.S01B.C179A
Movement : Manually Wound A&S Cal. 5201
Age : September 2024
Year : 2024
Case Size : 41.5mm
Case Thickness : 9mm
Lug to Lug : 47mm
Lugs : 20mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box and Papers : Box & Papers
Case Material : 18ct Red Gold
Warranty : 12-Months Warranty
The wrist model's wrist size is 7inch

An English watchmaker and inventor, John Arnold (1736-1799) was believed to be the first to design a watch that was both practical and accurate. In 1762, he met William McGuire, for whom he repaired a repeating watch. McGuire was so impressed by Arnold’s skills that he gave him a loan, enabling him to set up in business as a watchmaker at Devereux Court, Strand, London. In 1787, Arnold & Son was founded when John’s son, John Roger (1769-1843), started to work with his father. The influential French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet became a very good friend of Arnold. Arnold was so impressed with what Breguet was doing that he immediately travelled to Paris and asked Breguet to take on his son as his apprentice. Arnold appears to have given Breguet full access to incorporate or develop any of Arnold's inventions and techniques into his watches. In 1799, when his father died, he continued the business, taking John Dent into partnership (between 1830 and 1840). In 1843, when John-Roger died, Charles Frodsham (1810–1871), a renowned English watch and clockmaker, took over Arnold & Son. He renamed it Arnold & Frodsham Chronometer Makers, and in 1884, the business became Charles Frodsham & Co. The information on the company's history stops in 1857. Producing mantel and carriage clocks from the late 1940s through to the ‘80s. In 1995, the brand was relaunched in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Arnold & Son initially used movements made by external suppliers, principally Jaquet (a company that later became La Joux-Perret). In turn, these were based on Valjoux, ETA and Sellita, and they launched their first collection in 1998. Arnold & Son was sold to La Joux-Perret in 2010, and as this company is a movement manufacturer, Arnold & Son became a watchmaking firm manufacturing in-house. The Company had various central London addresses, before moving to 32 Bury Street in 1997, where it continues today. Arnold & Son was sold to Citizen Watch Co., Ltd in 2012. Today, they sell around 600 watches per year.