Fears Introduce Brunswick Boutique Editions in Mallard Green

Fears Watch Company is one of the biggest success stories in British watchmaking across the past few years. A heritage revival brand that is going from strength to strength, so much so that last year they opened their flagship showroom in Bristol, the brand’s traditional home city. With the showroom approaching its one-year anniversary, now is the perfect time to launch a pair of Fears Brunswick Boutique Editions that are exclusively available from the showroom and Fears Owners’ Club.

The two Boutique Editions take the form of the Brunswick 38mm and Brunswick 40mm with new Mallard Green dials. As you might be able to guess from the name of the colour, Mallard Green is inspired by the green-blue colour of a mallard drake duck’s head. As one of the most prevalent birds in the British countryside it feels like a suitably patriotic colour from the brand that produced watches for both the Jubilee and Coronation. Fears have also announced that future core models will receive boutique editions in Mallard Green.

Zooming in on the dials of these watches, we see that the Brunswick 38mm features sunray brushed finishing across both the main dial and small seconds subdial. The Brunswick 40mm also features a sunburst pattern but it doesn’t appear to have quite such a high sheen and is more matte. There’s also the difference in that the 40mm has central hours, minutes and seconds, lacking any form subdial but balancing that out by having a slightly raised disc for the hour scale. Picking between the two is really a matter of personal taste. Both are solid.

As the Fears Brunswick Boutique Editions are essentially exclusive colourways, the cases and movements of the watches will be familiar to anyone who knows the collections already. But it’s still worth recapping them quickly for those discovering Fears for the first time. The Brunswick 38mm has a stainless steel case in a cushion shape measuring 38mm x 38mm presented on an Alcantara strap and housing the top-grade ETA 7001 manual movement with 40-hour power reserve. The Brunswick 40mm has the same case at a 40mm sizing, is presented on a five-link steel bracelet and houses the ETA 2824-2 automatic with 40-hour power reserve.

It’s worth noting that while these are exclusive to the Fears Bristol Showroom and the online Fears Owners’ Club, they’re not limited editions. That means there will be continuous production and anyone who wants to buy one will be able to do so by taking a trip to Bristol. The asterisk of them also being available to the Fears Owners’ Club is so that international fans have a viable route to purchasing one as well. In terms of price, they’re exactly the same as their core collection equivalents – £3,350 for the 38mm and £3,750 for the 40mm.

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