Journal · Workshop · 5 min
Why we make 220 watches a year
It is not a marketing number. It is what two people can make, finish, time and sign without cutting a corner.
People ask why we do not simply hire. The honest answer is that 220 is a ceiling rather than a target, and it comes from arithmetic rather than scarcity.
The arithmetic
A finished Osmund takes about eleven hours of bench time: case finishing, movement assembly, regulation over four days in five positions, casing up and final checks. Two watchmakers, forty-six working weeks, allowing for servicing — you arrive at roughly 220.
What hiring would change
A third bench would add about a hundred watches a year. It would also mean that the person who services your watch in five years might not be the person who built it. We think that is the promise that matters most, so we keep the room small.
What it means for you
Some models sell out their batch. When that happens we open a waitlist for the next one, and you pay nothing until your watch is on the bench. We would rather tell you the date honestly than build faster.
