Schofield is Giles Ellis's one-shop company in Sussex, which has had its cases machined in England by the same shop for more than 15 years and sells them direct, in sterling, in numbered runs. The decision it forces is how much of the price you will pay for the case, since the cheapest model puts a Seiko calibre that Unimatic sells for $920 inside a £2,190 English case.
Checked 20 September 2026 · list prices on the maker's site that day unless marked street
Schofield is Giles Ellis's company, founded in 2007 and run from Riverside in Sussex beside the River Adur, where the watches are assembled and finished and where the only shop is. It sells direct, from the Riverside store and the website, in sterling, and shows no dollar price. The about page says the cases have come from the same British machine shop for more than 15 years, that movements, dials, hands and crowns are Swiss, and that about 80% of the cost value of a watch is made in the UK; the warranty is 2 years, per the Skeptiko page. The movements are where the about page and the spec sheet part company. The Obscura runs a Unitas 6498-2 hand-wound with Geneva stripes and blued screws, and the Skeptiko a gilded ETA 2824-2, both Swiss as the about page says. The Light One runs a Seiko NH34A automatic GMT, 24 jewels at 3 Hz with 44 hours, which is Japanese, and the page says so; its 24-hour hand is the one set independently, so it is the office GMT rather than the traveller's kind that jumps the local hour. A buyer paying £2,190 is paying for the English case and the 2 straps. Every model is rated to 200 m, and 2 of the 3 are 44 mm across and 52.7 mm lug-to-lug, longer than anything Fears or Vertex make; the Light One is 40 mm and 48 mm.
At £2,190 the Light One is priced where Fears's Redcliff at £2,458 puts a La Joux-Perret G100 in a 39.5 mm British-assembled case and Vertex's M36 at £1,792 puts a Sellita in one; at £4,680 the Skeptiko meets Tudor's Pelagos FXD at $5,025, COSC-certified and thinner by 3 mm or more. The Schofield answer at both prices is the case and the run.
The figures here are the maker's sterling prices on 19 September 2026. Runs are stated on the page, 150 per colour for the Light One, 50 for the Skeptiko, 40 for the Obscura, and all 3 were in stock that day.
Founded2007
BasedRiverside, Sussex, England (beside the River Adur)
AssembledCases British-made (same machine shop for 15+ years); final assembly and finishing in the UK; movements, dials, hands and crowns Swiss; brand says ~80% of cost value is UK-made (about page)
MovementsUnitas 6498-2 hand-wound (Obscura), ETA 2824-2 gilded automatic (Skeptiko), Seiko NH34A automatic GMT (Light One / Dark One)
SoldDirect only (Riverside Store and website); GBP
Read the table by case. The Light One is the 40 mm field watch with a GMT hand, in a steel case with an anti-fingerprint coating; the Dark One is the same watch in PVD gunmetal. The Skeptiko and the Obscura share the 44 mm, 52.7 mm case with a 42 mm fixed bezel, the Skeptiko in tumbled stainless steel and the Obscura in cellular Damascus steel by Vegas Forge, acid-etched, with bronze bushings. The Light One's 13.5 mm thickness is quoted by the maker as including the lugs, so it is not directly comparable with the other 2 figures.
Case materialStainless steel, anti-fingerprint coating (Dark One: PVD gunmetal)
Price£2,190 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The Schofield to buy if the case matters more than the calibre, £2,190 on the maker's site, with 2 Sugar Free straps in the box. At 40 mm and 48 mm lug to lug it is the only Schofield a 7 inch wrist should consider; the movement is a Seiko NH34A GMT with 44 hours. Unimatic's U4 GMT runs the same NH34A at 40 mm, 49 mm and 13.9 mm with 300 m for $920; Serica's 8315 is $2,450 on a COSC Soprod C125. The £2,190 buys the English case; the alternative is a Swiss certificate for the same money.
CrystalFlat sapphire, Swiss AR; domed printed sapphire back
Bezel42mm fixed bezel
LumeSuper-LumiNova X1 green
Case materialTumbled stainless steel, screw-down crown
Price£4,680 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The 44 mm Schofield on a Swiss automatic, £4,680, in a run of 50 and in stock. The gilded ETA 2824-2 with 42 hours sits in tumbled steel at 52.7 mm lug to lug and 16.1 mm thick, the thickest watch the brand makes. Tudor's Pelagos FXD is $5,025 at 42 mm, 52 mm and 12.75 mm on a COSC in-house calibre; Marathon's GSAR is $2,000 at 41 mm, 48 mm and 14 mm with 300 m on a Sellita SW200-1. Against the Obscura the Skeptiko is the same case 1.1 mm thicker, in plain steel, for £4,878 less.
CrystalDouble-dome sapphire, Swiss AR (green or red); triple sapphire smoked caseback
Bezel42mm fixed bezel, 35.5mm window
LumeMultiple Super-LumiNova colours
Case materialCellular Damascus stainless steel by Vegas Forge, acid-etched, bronze bushings
Price£9,558 on the maker's site (no US price shown)
The Damascus one, £9,558, limited to 40 and in stock. The case is cellular Damascus stainless steel by Vegas Forge with bronze bushings, 44 mm and 52.7 mm lug to lug, 128 g on the Grey Cloud calf strap, around a Unitas 6498-2 hand-wound with 57 hours under a double-domed sapphire with green or red AR. Formex's Aria is $7,900 at 40 mm and 6.9 mm on a micro-rotor manufacture calibre; Massena LAB's Archetype 1.0 is $4,250 at 42 mm and 14 mm on a hand-wound SW510. The Obscura is the case, and 40 people will have one.
Schofield is for the buyer with a 7.5 inch wrist or larger who wants a case machined in England from a company of one man's name, in a numbered run, and who reads 52.7 mm lug-to-lug as a feature. The Light One at 48 mm suits a 7 inch wrist and is the only Schofield a smaller wrist should consider. Look elsewhere if you want a Swiss or certified movement at £2,190, since Serica's 8315 is $2,450 on a COSC GMT and Vertex's M36 is £1,792 on a Sellita; if you want a British-assembled watch under 44 mm on a Swiss automatic, since Fears's Redcliff is 39.5 mm at £2,458 and Vertex's M100A is 40 mm at £2,083; or if you want a dollar price, since Schofield shows none.
Where it sits against the field
Set beside Fears and Vertex, Schofield is the one whose case is British at every price, where Fears discloses Hong Kong for the Brunswick and Redcliff and Vertex gives 2 answers, and it is also the one whose cheapest watch has the least expensive calibre, a Seiko NH34A against Fears's La Joux-Perret G100 at £2,458 and Vertex's Sellita SW260-1 at £1,792. At £4,680 the Skeptiko is priced with Tudor's Pelagos FXD at $5,025 and Bremont's Supermarine at $4,150, both COSC-certified and both thinner by 3 mm or more; the Schofield's reply is the 44 mm tumbled case and the run of 50. At £9,558 the Obscura sits with MING's 57.04 at CHF 6,250, Formex's Aria at $7,900 and Sartory-Billard's SB07 at about EUR 9,000, and it is the only one of those whose case material is the argument. The high-end ranking treats Damascus as case craft; the movement inside is a Unitas that costs a good deal less elsewhere.
Questions people ask
Where are Schofield watches made?
Riverside, Sussex, England, beside the River Adur, where Giles Ellis founded the company in 2007. Cases are machined by the same British machine shop the brand has used for more than 15 years, and assembly and finishing happen in the UK; the about page puts about 80% of a watch's cost value in Britain. Movements are Swiss on the Obscura (Unitas 6498-2) and Skeptiko (ETA 2824-2) and Japanese on the Light One (Seiko NH34A).
How much does a Schofield watch cost?
£2,190 to £9,558 on the maker's site on 19 September 2026: the Light One and Dark One at £2,190, the Skeptiko at £4,680 and the Obscura at £9,558. Schofield sells direct only, from the Riverside store and the website, in sterling; no dollar price is shown. All 3 were in stock on the check date, in runs of 150 per colour, 50 and 40.
Is the Schofield Light One a true GMT?
No. The Light One runs a Seiko NH34A, on which the 24-hour hand is the one set independently while the local hour stays put, so it shows a second time zone but does not jump the local hour when you land. A true GMT that does, on a Miyota 9075, is in Vaer's G5 at $989 and Traska's Venturer at $950; a COSC Swiss one is Serica's 8315 at $2,450.
