Gs/tp Telephone Watch

The Telephone watch dial follows the shape of a rotary telephone dialer, patented in 1892 and used until the advent of push-button telephones in the 1960s. The hour markers are all numbered in black circles, connected through a strawberry pink band that sits inside the railway minutes track. The open centre dial is signed GS/TP below twelve o’clock and Tokyo above six o’clock.

The custom-milled surgical steel case is quad-screwed with a bubble back, finished with linear brushing on the sides, radial brushing on the back, and mirror polishing on the thruppenny bezel, inspired by a British ‘thruppenny bit’ (three pence coin), which was dodecagonal from 1936 until its withdrawal in 1971. The twelve points of the bezel line up with the hour indices.

The gently twisted bombe lugs are half drilled- the lug holes on the crown side are only semi drilled, while the lugs on the left side are fully drilled. This anachronistic detail, taken from some early Rolex models, combines the convenience of fully drilled lugs with a slightly cleaner profile on the crown side of the watch.

• 28mm diameter brushed stainless steel cushion case
• Half drilled lugs with spring bars to fit any 18mm strap
• Domed crystal engraved ‘G’ in the centre
• Fully adjustable ‘wheat ear’ mesh bracelet with signed clasp
• Japanese made Seiko quartz movement
• Screw-down crown
• Made in Tokyo, Japan