Arnold & Son Watches
Arnold & Son is founded on three fundamental principles: Astronomy, Chronometry, and World Time. These pillars inspire our craftsmanship and define our commitment to excellence in watchmaking.
DSTB 42 Platinum
DSTB 42, which stands for ‘Dial-Side True Beat’, reveals its truebeat seconds mechanism on the dial side.
Perpetual moon 38 Mintnight
The Perpetual Moon 38 Mintnight rises in a colourful yet just as poetic version featuring hints of mint green.
Longitude
Longitude Titanium, a contemporary interpretation of the great English watchmaker’s work, coherently combines this naval heritage with a refined design and highly resistant materials.
Nebula
Since its creation, Nebula has been a star. Its stellar mechanism, the A&S5201 calibre, is the gravitational force of this collection, giving it its appearance, identity and strength.
Luna Magna
With this original timepiece, the Swiss watchmaker with English roots aims to make a lasting impression by presenting the largest rotating moon ever created in relief for a wristwatch.
Perpetual Moon
Showcasing one of the largest moons to be found in the watchmaking sphere, Perpetual Moon stands out for the size of its complication and the aesthetic approach employed by the resolutely British Swiss brand.
DSTB - DIAL SIDE TRUE BEAT
The true-beat seconds function is characteristic of the instruments that John Arnold supplied to the Royal Navy. Their escapement used to beat at one oscillation per second, naturally indicated by a sweep-seconds hand.
GLOBETROTTER
The lands seen on the surface are sculpted to precision and together with the deep, hand-painted seas, they serve as a backdrop to the world time dual time zone display.
Ultrathin Tourbillon
Pared back to its purest expression, the Ultrathin Tourbillon collection is elegantly revealed. A vast dial displays beautiful colour finish, while the off-centred hours dial is made of genuine white opal.
Arnold & Son's three founding principles
Throughout human history, measuring time has always referred to the stars. It was by observing certain stars and understanding their cycle that the first calendars were established with impressive accuracy. It took several millennia before this precision was enclosed in a timepiece like the ones designed by John Arnold.
The golden age of maritime explorations and discoveries ushered this precision into a new technical ideal – determining longitude at sea. Its immediate corollary was the identification of local time, which changed constantly as the observer moved along an east-west axis. Astronomy, chronometry and what we now call world time are thus inextricably linked within one and the same question, to which John Arnold and his son devoted their lives, their art and their genius.
This is how these three dimensions – astronomy, chronometry and world time – have come to be embodied in the House's contemporary timepieces. Echoes of John Arnold's inventions and preoccupations, these pillars represent the foundations on which the Arnold & Son collections are based.
