Fears is a Bristol name from 1846, revived in 2016, that hand-builds cushion-case Brunswicks and round Redcliffs in small batches on La Joux-Perret calibres and tells you on the same page that the cases come from Hong Kong. The decision it forces is whether British assembly and finishing are worth £2,458 and up when the same calibres sit in Farer, Straum and Furlan Marri watches for less.
Checked 20 September 2026 · list prices on the maker's site that day unless marked street
Fears is a Bristol name, founded in 1846 and revived in 2016 by the founder's great-great-great-grandson, and it sells direct from its own site with a short stockist list that includes Ace Jewelers, James Porter & Son, Collective Horology and Topper, each of which has had a retailer edition. On origin Fears is unusually plain. The product copy says hand-built in Britain in small batches; the spec sheet on the same page lists the case and caseback as made in Hong Kong for the Brunswick and Redcliff lines, in Switzerland for the Arnos, the dial in Germany and the movement in Switzerland. The Garrick is the exception, with its 904L case and hands made in Garrick's Norfolk workshop. Both sentences are on the same page, and a buyer paying £2,458 for a Redcliff is paying for the assembly and the finishing rather than for a British case.
The core range runs La Joux-Perret: the G100 automatic with a 68 hour reserve in the Redcliff and the Brunswick 40 Filton, the D100 hand-wound in the Brunswick 38 and the platinum Pt. The Jump Hour puts Christopher Ward's JJ01 jumping-hour module on a Sellita SW200, the Arnos runs a Sellita SW1000, and the Garrick runs a Garrick UT-G04 at 18,000 vph with a free-sprung balance, which is the one calibre here that is not bought in from a Swiss supplier. Every model takes a 20 mm strap except the Garrick at 22 mm, and every one but the Brunswick Pt states a sapphire crystal with ARdur anti-reflective coating on both sides. Water resistance runs in 3 tiers: 30 m on the Arnos and the Pt, 100 m on the Brunswick 38, the Jump Hour and the Garrick, 150 m on the Redcliff and the Brunswick 40 Filton. In dollars the Filton at $3,500 is $650 under the Bremont Supermarine at $4,150 and $1,605 over MONTA's Noble 40 at $1,895. Farer's Solander Lissom carries the D100 at $1,295 and Straum's Expedition the G100 at $2,750, and that gap is what the cushion case and the Bristol assembly cost.
The site shows prices in sterling including VAT with the ex-VAT figure beside it, and the en-us store shows dollars the same way; every price here is the ex-VAT sterling figure from the maker's feed unless it says otherwise, so a UK buyer adds 20% and a US buyer should read the dollar line where one is given. Warranty is 2 years. The Garrick is built to order and delivers in August 2027; the platinum Brunswick Pt was listed unavailable, built to order in more than 6 months.
Founded1846
BasedBristol, United Kingdom (Arnos Vale)
Assembled'Hand-built in Britain in small batches' per product copy; product spec sheets list case/caseback made in Hong Kong (Brunswick, Redcliff) or Switzerland (Arnos), dials Germany, movements Switzerland; Garrick case and hands made in the UK
Read the table by case family. Redcliff is the round sports case, Brunswick the cushion case in 38 mm and 40 mm, Arnos the rectangle, and the Garrick and the Pt are built to order. The Brunswick 40 Filton appears twice because Fears runs a UK store in sterling and a US store in dollars; it is 1 watch, and the write-up below uses the US figure. The Brunswick 40 Copper Salmon in steel (G100, 150 m, £3,125 on the bracelet) is marked discontinued with limited pieces remaining, so it stays in the table and is not written up below. The Jump Hour has also entered what Fears calls its Archive but still carries a feed price, so it is in.
Ø39.5 mm · automatic · 150 m · £2,458 · Cheapest · thinnest with a date
Fears Redcliff 39.5 Date 'Raven Black'
39.5 × 46.95 mm · ref 40 × 47
MovementLa Joux-Perret G100 automatic, 68h
Case39.5 mm
Lug to lug46.95 mm
Thickness9.98 mm
Lug width20 mm
Water resistance150 m
CrystalSapphire, ARdur AR both sides
BezelFixed, polished
LumeX1-grade Super-LumiNova, blue emission
Case material316L steel, brushed and polished, screw-down crown/back
Price£2,458 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The Fears to buy if the point is the finishing rather than the cushion case, £2,458 on the 3-link bracelet with micro-adjust, £2,625 on black buffalo leather, a textile strap in the box either way. It is the thinnest Fears with a date at 9.98 mm (10.37 mm with the open caseback) and the cheapest in the range, on the La Joux-Perret G100 with 68 hours. MONTA's Noble 40 is $1,895 at 47.8 mm lug to lug and 10.5 mm with 200 m on a Sellita base; the Bremont Supermarine is $4,150 at 49 mm and 12 mm. Cherry Red and Pewter Grey are the same price.
MovementLa Joux-Perret G100 automatic, quick-set date
Case40 mm
Lug to lug46.5 mm
Thickness11.9 mm
Lug width20 mm
Water resistance150 m
Crystalsapphire, ARdur AR both sides
Bezelfixed
LumeGrade A BGW9 Super-LumiNova
Case material316L stainless steel, polished and spun
Price$3,500
The cushion case with a date and 150 m, and the one the US store prices in dollars, $3,500 before VAT on brown buffalo leather ($4,200 with it; $3,700 on the bracelet), against £2,792 on the UK feed. Against the Redcliff it is 0.45 mm shorter and 1.92 mm thicker for £334 more in sterling, and the money is the polished-and-spun cushion case, made in Hong Kong per the spec sheet. Straum's Expedition is $2,750 on the same La Joux-Perret G100 at 38.2 mm and 11 mm. Squadron Green is the same price.
Ø38 mm · hand wound · 100 m · £2,875 · Hand-wound · 42 mm lug-to-lug
Fears Brunswick 38 'Charcoal Rose'
38 × 42 mm · ref 40 × 47
MovementLa Joux-Perret D100 hand-wound, TOP grade, 50h
Case38 mm
Lug to lug42 mm
Thickness11.84 mm
Lug width20 mm
Water resistance100 m
CrystalSapphire, ARdur AR both sides
BezelFixed
LumeNot stated
Case material316L steel, polished and spun
Price£2,875 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The hand-wound Brunswick at £2,875 (£3,042 on the 5-link bracelet), individually numbered, and at 42 mm lug to lug the shortest round Fears and the one for a wrist under 6.5 inches. The La Joux-Perret D100 in TOP grade gives 50 hours in a case 11.84 mm thick, on Heritage Brown cordovan lined in Alcantara. The same D100 sits in Farer's Solander Lissom at $1,295, 38 mm and 7.95 mm thick with 50 m; the Fears is 3.89 mm thicker and rated to twice the depth. Buy it for the cushion case and the number on the back; the calibre is available for a good deal less.
Ø40.5 mm · automatic · 100 m · £3,542 · Fears Archive · jump hour
Fears Brunswick 40.5 Jump Hour 'China Blue'
40.5 × 47 mm · ref 40 × 47
MovementSellita SW200 + Christopher Ward JJ01 jump-hour module, 38h
Case40.5 mm
Lug to lug47 mm
Thickness12.8 mm
Lug width20 mm
Water resistance100 m
CrystalSapphire, ARdur AR both sides
BezelFixed
LumeNot stated
Case material316L steel, polished and spun
Price£3,542 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The complication, at £3,542 on Storm Grey Alcantara (£3,708 on the bracelet), and a row that has entered the Fears Archive while still carrying a price. Christopher Ward's JJ01 jumping-hour module sits on a Sellita SW200 with 38 hours of reserve under a pure-silver barleycorn dial in blue lacquer, and it is the longest and thickest of the Brunswicks, 0.5 mm and 0.9 mm over the Filton. The module maker's own complicated watch, the Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto, is $4,995 at 41 mm and chimes rather than jumps. Barleycorn Plum is the same price. Ask about remaining pieces before ordering.
Case material316L steel rectangular 22.6 x 33.5mm, Swiss-made case
Price£3,625 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The rectangle, at £3,625 (£4,350 with VAT), and the only Fears with a Swiss-made case, 22.6 mm by 33.5 mm and 8.4 mm thick on a Sellita SW1000-1b with 46 hours, a CNC hobnail dial made in Germany, on taupe Barenia leather with a Fears Blue FKM rubber strap in the box. The table's diameter column holds the case width. Nothing else in the range is rectangular; on thickness it sits between Farer's Solander Lissom at 7.95 mm and $1,295, hand-wound and round, and the Formex Aria at 6.9 mm and $7,900. The 30 m rating is the dress-watch tier, and the rubber strap does not change it.
Case material904L steel, made and finished in Garrick's Norfolk workshop
Price£17,500 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The flagship, built with Garrick Watch Co. at £17,500 before VAT (£21,000 with it), and the one Fears whose case and calibre are British, which the price says. The 904L case is made and finished in Garrick's Norfolk workshop around the Garrick UT-G04 hand-wound, 18,000 vph, 45 hours, free-sprung Trinity balance, at 49 mm lug to lug. Fewer than 5 are made a year, 2 build slots are offered a year, and orders placed now deliver in August 2027. Lundis Bleus's Ref. 1125 is CHF 15,800 at 40 mm and 11.3 mm with a white gold enamel dial; Sartory-Billard's SB05 starts at EUR 15,000 at 8.5 mm thick.
Ø38 mm · hand wound · 30 m · £21,000 · Platinum · built to order · unavailable
Fears Brunswick Pt
MovementLa Joux-Perret D100 hand-wound
Case38 mm
Lug to lug—
Thickness—
Lug width20 mm
Water resistance30 m
CrystalNot stated
BezelFixed, polished platinum
LumeNot stated
Case materialPlatinum 950, ~100g, London Assay Office hallmarks
Price£21,000 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The platinum Brunswick at £21,000 with platinum indices or £23,500 diamond-set, listed unavailable and built to order in more than 6 months. A Platinum 950 case of about 100 g carrying London Assay Office hallmarks holds the same La Joux-Perret D100 as the steel Brunswick 38, on a handmade black Kevlar strap. Lug to lug, thickness and crystal are not stated on the maker's feed, which is why the table has blanks. The steel Brunswick 38 Charcoal Rose runs the same D100 at £2,875, so £18,125 is the metal and the hallmarks. Confirm the dimensions with Fears before paying the deposit.
Fears is for the buyer who wants a small-batch British-assembled dress or sports watch on a La Joux-Perret calibre and is content that the case comes from Hong Kong, which Fears tells you and most makers at this price do not. The Brunswick 38 at 42 mm lug-to-lug suits a wrist under 6.5 inches; the Redcliff and Filton at 46.5 to 46.95 mm sit on a 6.5 to 7.25 inch wrist; the Garrick at 49 mm wants 7 inches or more. Look elsewhere if you want a British case under £17,500, since only the Garrick has one and Schofield machines its cases in England from £2,190; if you want more than 150 m, since nothing here goes deeper and Vertex's M60 is rated to 600 m; or if the calibre is the point, since the D100 and G100 are in Farer, Straum and Furlan Marri watches for less.
Where it sits against the field
In sterling the Redcliff at £2,458 and the Filton at £2,792 sit above Vertex's M36 at £1,792 and M100A at £2,083, which carry Sellita SW260 movements and 100 m against Fears's La Joux-Perret and 150 m, and below Schofield's Skeptiko at £4,680, a 44 mm ETA 2824-2 in a British-machined case. In dollars the Filton at $3,500 is $650 under the Bremont Supermarine at $4,150 and $1,605 over MONTA's Noble 40 at $1,895. anOrdain's Model 1 at $2,446 is the other British dress watch at the price, and its argument is an enamel dial fired in Glasgow against Fears's polished cushion case. The Garrick at £17,500 sits with Lundis Bleus's Ref. 1125 and Sartory-Billard's SB05 as the hand-wound pieces where the money buys a small workshop's own work, and the high-end ranking places the three side by side.
Questions people ask
Where are Fears watches made?
Assembled in Britain in small batches, per the product copy, from parts the spec sheet itemises: case and caseback made in Hong Kong for the Brunswick and Redcliff lines and in Switzerland for the Arnos, dial made in Germany, movement made in Switzerland. The Fears Garrick's 904L case and hands are made in Garrick's Norfolk workshop. Fears is based in Bristol.
How much does a Fears watch cost?
£2,458 to £21,000 before VAT on the maker's feed. The Redcliff 39.5 Date is £2,458 on its bracelet, the Brunswick 40 Filton £2,792 on leather ($3,500 on the US store), the Brunswick 38 £2,875, the Jump Hour £3,542, the Arnos £3,625, the Garrick £17,500 and the platinum Brunswick Pt £21,000. UK buyers add 20% VAT.
What movements do Fears watches use?
La Joux-Perret for the core range: the G100 automatic (68 hours) in the Redcliff and Brunswick 40 Filton, the D100 hand-wound in the Brunswick 38 and Brunswick Pt. The Jump Hour runs a Sellita SW200 with Christopher Ward's JJ01 module, the Arnos a Sellita SW1000-1b, and the Garrick a Garrick UT-G04 hand-wound at 18,000 vph. Warranty is 2 years.
