2024 Fears Redcliff 39.5 Date Mallard Green 'Boutique'
Ref: BS139.510
Specification
Lugs : 20mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box & Papers : Box and Papers
Case Material : Stainless Steel
Warranty : 12-Months Warranty
Points of Mention
This watch is sold with its original Fears presentation box, swing tags and paperwork. It comes paired with two quick-release 20mm textile straps and signed pin buckles. The watch is from March 2024 and is sold in worn condition, but overall, it is in very fair condition, as you can see. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.
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The Watch
Here we have a special 2024 Fears Redcliff Date Mallard Green 'Boutique Only Edition', named after the street in Bristol where Fears was founded. Its 39.5mm polished and brushed stainless steel case curves over your wrist with tapered lugs. The brushed flanks lead to a lug-to-lug length of 46mm and a case thickness of 10.5mm, ensuring a comfortable fit. On the right side is a signed coin-edged screw-down crown. The polished smooth bezel holds a domed sapphire crystal Ar coated above a striking Mallard Green sunburst dial. An outer minute chapter ring surrounds applied baton indexes are diamond polished and coated in Rhodium filled with X1-Grade Super-LumiNova marking the hours; at 3 o’clock, a colour-matched date window, the signature Fears hands are diamond polished coated in Rhodium and filled with the same lume, at 12 o’clock we have the Fears motif completing this distinctive timepiece. On the reverse, a closed case back, inside an Automatic La Joux-Perret G100, 24 Jewels beating at 28,800 Beats per hour, this movement has hacking seconds, quick-set date and hand winding for your convenience. It comes paired with two quick-release 20mm textile straps and signed pin buckles. This watch is sold with its original Fears presentation box, swing tags and paperwork.
Personal Note
This is the wonderful Fears Redcliff 39.5 Date Mallard Green, which is their 'Boutique' edition, exclusive to the Fears Boutique or existing Fears customers. A lovely dial colour that works perfectly in the Redcliff format and this is a great opportunity for someone to pick this up without being an existing customer or making the trip to the Boutique. I would not hesitate to add this fantastic watch to your collection today whilst you can!
The Brand
The year was 1846, and a young watchmaker named Edwin Fear established a workshop and showroom in his own name at 33-35 Redcliff Street in Bristol. The company Edwin Fear that he created became more and more successful and eventually, in 1866, needed to expand to their second premises, on Bristol Bridge, which served as Fears headquarters until the 1940s. During this period, the company had three different Managing Directors. Following the passing of Edwin in 1877, the business was handed down to his son, Amos Daniel Fear, who in 1908 saw the company become a limited company whilst also changing its operating name from ‘Edwin Fear’ to ’Fears Limited’. Amos also safely navigated the company through the First World War,1914-1918, after which he established an export department called ‘Fears (Export) Limited’ at No. 14 Brunswick Square in Bristol. In late 1945, following the War, Fears moved to new premises in Clifton, Bristol, just in time to celebrate the company’s centenary in 1946 with a new watch collection. Fears continued to thrive through the post-war years until it sadly closed its doors in 1976. It was not until 40 years later, in 2016, when an aspiring young apprentice watchmaker at Rolex in London, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, who is the great-great-great-grandson of Edwin Fear, re-launched his family’s company at the SalonQP watch show on 3rd November 2016. Keeping the name ‘Fears’, he released their first wristwatch in the twenty-first century, the Redcliff. Rolling with the success of the Redcliff in 2017, they released their second wristwatch, The Brunswick, named after Brunswick Square in Bristol. In 2022, Fears relocated to its historic home city of Bristol, where they built a new Headquarters and Showroom. In 2023, the first Fears and Christopher Ward Alliance Watch was released, the jump hour, a unique collaboration between two powerhouses of the British Watch & Clock Makers Alliance. The Alliance was set up in November 2020 as a Trade body representing 75 Brands across the British Isles, including the Republic of Ireland, such brands as Bamford London, Christopher Ward, Fears, Farer, Elliot Brown, Isotope, Marloe Watch Company, MHD Watches, Pinion, Schofield, Studio Underdog and many others.