One of the most exciting parts of British Watchmakers’ Day, which takes place on 7th March 2026, is discovering all the special edition watches that are available exclusively from the event. Limited edition timepieces produced specifically for the day adding a sense of fun with their colourful designs, unique themes and British pride. From staples like Christopher Ward to niche microbrands, there’s plenty of interesting special editions to be discovered. Find our more about British Watchmakers’ Day here.
Apiar Gen 1.1 Underground
Apiar have teamed up with The Dial Artist, Chris Alexander, to produce the Apiar Gen 1.1 Underground. It features Apiar’s signature additive manufacturing techniques across the titanium case but the dial presents a new look for the brand involving bright colours. It’s produced through CNC machining and then painted by Chris Alexander in the colours of London’s underground train lines with matching rotor on its La Joux-Perret G101 movement. As a limited edition of three watches, none are the same and it’s priced at £3,000.
Beaucroft Rebel Red
Cambridge-based brand Beaucroft are turning to the dark side for their British Watchmakers’ Day special edition. A tungsten carbide carbon hard coated case provides a stealthy and strong housing for the wine dark dial in gradient red. It’s like a opening a fresh bottle in a plush lounge with dimmed lights with perhaps a bit of smoke in the air. At the same time, it remains classic Beaucroft with their signature dial layout. Limited to 50 pieces at £695.
Brooklands Triple-Four ‘Redline’ Chronograph
The Brooklands special edition offers an exclusive chance to get your hands on a new version of the sold-out Triple-Four Chronograph. Dubbed the ‘Redline’ it represents racing and motorsport pushed to the edges of performance – pushing it to the red line. To that effect, it has a vertical bicompax display in traditional panda colour (a motorsport staple) with a red chronograph seconds hand, representing the titular line. It’s powered by the Sellita SW500 BV b in a 10 piece edition at £3,900.
Christopher C1 Loco 7326
Named after the date of British Watchmakers’ Day, the 7326 is a brand new interpretation of the C1 Loco that moves the flying balance display from its integrated bracelet, angular case inspired by The Twelve to the significantly dressier Lightcatcher design. It makes for a much more elegant, classic design that suits Loco much, much better in my opinion. Paired with a Union Flag motif across the base and classical Roman numeral time subdial. Add a full collection of watches like this to my 2026 wish list. Limited to 10 pieces at £4,995.
Detrash Neo
Inspired by The Matrix Neo by Detrash is a striking green and black wristwatch with a case made from 80% recycled steel with PVD coating. As always with Detrash, sustainability is king. Even the strap is made from a sustainable material called BeerSkin, produced from recycled Budweiser brewing waste. It’s powered by the Miyota 9039 automatic in a limited edition of 10 pieces that will never be produced. So if you miss out, you will learn the true meaning of ‘there is no watch’.
Diatom Terra Meteorite
Diatom was founded by a pair of aerospace industry veterans, which gives their watches access to exclusive experiences and materials from the realms of space exploration. The Terra Meteorite features not only a meteorite dial but also a bezel that includes material salvaged from the Apollo 11 Command Module flown by Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins in 1969. The watches are also flown to 120,000 feet above Earth prior to being sold, giving them a near-space experience. Limited to 50 pieces.
Edward Christopher Ripple
Edward Christopher is debuting a new collection at British Watchmakers’ Day, the Ripple. As the name suggests it features a distinctive 3D ripple pattern dial housed in a 38mm case with integrated bracelet. There are a few colours being produced for the standard collection: pink, violet, green and red. However, the British Watchmakers’ Day special edition is a 25-piece limited edition with mirror finish. Powered by the Miyota 9039.
Elliot Brown Beachmaster Automatic
The Beachmaster is one of Elliot Brown’s flagship watches, built to military operational specs with 300m water resistance and powered by the Sellita SW330-2 with 56-hour power reserve. Its signature element is the inner rotating bezel which features a mission timer scale – a 24-hour ring with corresponding 24-hour hand but that’s split into two 12-hour sections, one counting down to the start of the mission and the other tracking elapsed time following its commencement. For this 10 piece limited edition, it’s presented with a forest green dial.
Ember Rocket Concept Edition
Ember are introducing a new line of watches with the reveal of the Rocket Concept Edition. As its name suggests, this line is a place to explore alternative ideas, colours and design elements on their Rocket watch in small numbers. The first of these Concept Editions is the British Watchmakers’ Day special editions, featuring a pink/blue gradient across the span of the dial. It gives a strong candy-like appearance. It’s limited to 45 pieces at £449.
Farer Cross
The Farer Cross takes the signature fjord green, teal colour of the popular Lander GMT and presents it as part of the Three Hand collection. It has a textured dial created with a press, which is then painted with the popular colour before being spun as it dries to create the fumé gradient. I like its clean design with pencil hands and 12/6 layout with lumicast indexes – it lets your focus stay on the feature dial. It’s limited to 20 pieces housing the La Joux-Perret G101, priced at £1,025.
Fears Brunswick 40 ‘1846’
Fears’ British Watchmakers’ Day special edition was the first to be announced last week, so you can read our complete article on the watch here. In short, it’s inspired by the brand’s 180th anniversary and is a modern reinterpretation of their classical pocket watch. As has become something of a BWD tradition, it’s made from silver, an unusual watchmaking material but now a signature for the Bristolian brand. Limited to 25 pieces at £4,350.
Geckota Pioneer ‘Graphite Special Edition’
Geckota have dressed their 41.5mm cushion case Pioneer in a new colour for this special edition. The layered dial has a graphite style base, which means it’s a dark grey colour with vertical brushing, giving it a dark appearance with fine lines as if drawn in with a graphite pencil. Providing nice contrast is a yellow minute track and lumed hour markers. Purchasers can also choose between yellow, white, blue or orange rubber straps. It’s limited to 50 pieces at £399.
Golby Special Edition Aquareef 40
After its release in October 2025, the Aquareef 40 has proved popular for the Cornish coastline inspired watch brand. Their British Watchmakers’ Day special edition takes the classic colours of the Union Flag (red, white and blue) and presents it on a ripple dial based on the waters of the coast. To me though it looks like someone has dripped some water over the RAF logo, which brings to mind the oft overlooked role of Cornwall in the Battle of Britain.
Justin Richardson Platinum Pebble 1 41 Sunburst
Justin Richardson produces bespoke watches built in collaboration with their clients. At British Watchmakers’ Day they are revealing the Platinum Pebble 1 41 Sunburst, a unique piece creation with a platinum case, open-heart dial and guilloché finish. It’s also technically a California display with Arabic numerals on the lower half and triangular markers across the top, which do look somewhat like intimidating teeth, which is quite fun.
Monro Luna Adventure ‘Lost in Space’
The Monro Luna Adventure ‘Lost in Space’ is a very fun timepiece, though it does also invite a quiet sense of existential dread. With an aventurine base and a seconds hand that features an astronaut counter balance – it invites you to imagine what it would be like to be flailing around in space, drifting and lost. The case of the watch almost feels like a space ship itself due to the lumecore construction that means the flanks of the watch light up in dark conditions. Limited to 50 pieces.
Moriarty Britannia
Moriarty watches is an Irish watch brand but they’ve crossed the Irish Sea to showcase their watches in the UK for the first time at British Watchmakers’ Day – after all, it’s British as in British Isles, not just the UK. They are the only Irish watch brand producing Grand Feu enamel dials, which is what features on the Britannia special edition in a dark blue and sparkly pattern designed to emulate the appearance of aventurine glass. Limited to 3 pieces at £3,950 excl. taxes.
Nomadic Céad 126 Chronograph Special Edition
Nomadic is another watch brand from across the Irish Sea but this time based in Belfast. Their special edition is a 7 piece limited edition of the Céad 126 Chronograph. The limited edition number is a reference to the 7th of March, the day of the event, while the subdials are presented in a trio of the brand’s signature colours: Crimson, Deep Ocean Blue, and Navigator White. Which just so happens to be the red, white and blue of the Union Flag. It’s powered by the Sellita SW500-M-a at £2,550.
Olivier Meylan GM19 Titan MoonDate Special “Black Out” Edition
The GM19 Titan MoonDate Special “Black Out” Edition for British Watchmakers’ Day is Olivier Meylan’s first ever titanium wristwatch. It’s being produced in an edition of 40 quartz models (£450) and 10 Sellita automatics (£1,350). It features a full lume dial in Super-LumiNova that adds dramatic colour to the cratered, pockmarked dial that’s inspired by the surface of the moon.
Paulin Dazzle Clock
Scottish brand Paulin are switching things up with a special edition clock rather than a wristwatch. The Dazzle face (we’re a fan if our collab with Ball didn’t make that obvious) is produced by Glasgow-based artist Rebecca McCormack. It’s housed in a cork body measuring 30cm in diameter and powered by a sweep quartz movement. It’s limited to 50 pieces at £200.
Pinion Pure Chance
The Pinion Pure Chance special edition is a reinterpretation of the Pure from 2014, one of the watches that cemented them as a fixture in the British watchmaking scene. The new watch features a redesigned case measuring 38mm with an aventurine glass dial. Its name, Pure Chance, refers to the fact that aventurine glass was originally invented in the 17th century by accident, or rather by pure chance. It’s limited to 50 watches at £1,350 with a manual movement.
Pompeak Mallory “Tux Edition”
Pompeak have gone all in on the theming for the Mallory “Tux Edition” for British Watchmakers’ Day. It has the established case design of the Mallory, their dedicated dress watch, but dresses the dial in slick black with a white small seconds subdial. The cherry on top being the addition of a bow-tie shaped seconds hand, spinning like a comical accessory on a clown. The right amount of seriousness and levity for a British brand. Limited to 50 watches at £849.
Schofield Skeptiko
Schofield’s Skeptiko is a new timepiece available in two versions, both available at BWD. The first is a steel edition but the more spectacular of the two is produced from a material called Ultem: a translucent, orange material used in the aerospace industry. Its translucent quality forced Schofield to completely reimagine their processes from the inside out, since aspects of the movement and internal architecture would be visible. The new case is paired with a dark, geometric dial that feels stalwart. There’s also a UFO theme as seen by the collection’s name and the individual model names of Artefacts and Sightings. £4,680.
Sidereus Réalta
The Sidereus Réalta is a reimagining of their Sidus wristwatch, the brand’s first dual time zone watch. It has a 24-hour rotating disc below the dial, revealed through an aperture at 6 o’clock, which tracks a second time zone with split colours for day/night indication. It’s inspired by the notion of global connection through time, the idea that all places on Earth today are governed by the same scientific principles, in the same way that people across the world used the same stars to navigate by, which is why it’s called Réalta which is Irish for star. Limited to 10 watches.
Timor Heritage Field BWD
Timor have created the Heritage Field BWD special edition for British Watchmakers’ Day, blending their signature vintage military styles with a modern celebration of British watch design. The case and dial layout draw inspiration from 1940s and 50s field watches while the typeface is entirely new, emulating the hyper legibility of watches from that period in new style. Similarly, the high contrast black and white has been replaced by dark navy, white and red accents, tying it to the Union Flag. Priced at £1,699.
William Wood Great Fire of London Watch
With their connection to firefighting, it’s almost surprising that William Wood haven’t created a watch inspired by The Great Fire of London already. Well, now they have with the first 50 pieces available at BWD. The dial is based on that other London landmark Big Ben, or more specifically the clock face on Queen Elizabeth Tower. The Fire of London connection is found on the caseback which is actually made from a £2 commemorative coin depicting the event. Inside is the Seiko NH35 automatic with 41-hour power reserve. It’s priced at £995.
Zero West HO1 BWD Heritage Special
Two years ago, Zero West set out to develop their own in-house dial manufacturing and printing, which now comes to fruition at BWD with the reveal of the first member of the hiOctane motorsport range. It features the BWD logo at 9 o’clock as well as the latitude and longitude of the event location across the peripheral minute track at 6 o’clock. So now you can get there via some orienteering skills rather than google maps. Priced at £4,995 and a unique piece.
Very good job by Fears team, also Edward Christopher, Nomadic, Sidereus and Monro Luna Adventure. I admire all watchmakers 2026 BWD collections. Can not wait to see and experience all.