Elegantly Understated: 175 Years of the Fears Watch Company
This beautifully bound hardback book, published to coincide with Fears’ 175th anniversary, charts the history of the company from its founding in Bristol in 1846 by Edwin Fear, through to its closure in the late 1970s, and its subsequent re-founding in 2016 by one of Edwin’s 6th generation descendants, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill.
It is a detailed history not only of Britain's oldest watch company, but also of a family business that persevered through numerous world catastrophes such as two world wars and the great depression.
The book has a chapter devoted to each of the four managing directors who have been at the helm of the company over the years and contains numerous full colour photographs and illustrations from the Fears archive, of both watches and artifacts, along with maps of the former locations and the logos used by the company in each era.
The foreword has been written by Roger Smith OBE, who is widely regarded to be one of the finest watchmakers in the world, hand-crafting watches of exquisite beauty and complexity.