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George Daniels invented the co-axial escapement, which was technology later sold to Omega. Picking up where Daniels left off, one of the key elements of Roger Smith’s watches are co-axial escapements. If you didn’t already know, Roger Smith was the (only) apprentice of the late and great watchmaker George Daniels. The Roger Smith Series 4 Triple Calendar Moonphase watch is the most complicated of the new group and showcases so much of what Roger Smith is fondly known for. The preview of these four new (admittedly stunning) models is good news for Roger Smith fans, since people like him always need to offer a delicate balance between producing watches clients have ordered and dreaming up (as well as designing) new products. I asked Roger when we might be able to see this Roger Smith Series 4 Triple Calendar Moonphase watch in “working” condition, and the response was something like “probably a couple years.” Sort of shocked, and sort of not, the answer was a reminder of the reality that is Roger Smith’s work which sees him as a mostly one-man operation hand-making not only his watch movements, but also the cases, dials, and hands. So what exactly made it a preview (more so than normal)? Well, none of the watches had movements in them.

That should speak to the intense time and effort required to make timepieces by hand, the old-fashioned way. At the show, I was able to take a look at the upcoming Series 1, Series 2, Series 3, and this Roger Smith Series 4 Triple Calendar Moonphase watch. Smith began producing watches back in 2001 and, according to him, has only produced 80 watches during those 15 years. These new timepieces are considered to be his “first series of watches,” meaning that they won’t all be one-off pieces. At SalonQP 2015, Isle of Man-based independent watch maker Roger Smith debuted four new watches – sort of.

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