KESTREL

Bespoke watchmaking · London · est. 1974
The Calibre 19 Series

Time, measured
by a single
pair of hands.

One watchmaker cuts, jewels and regulates each movement at one bench, over fourteen months. We finish forty-two pieces a year, and none of them leaves Cheapside until it has kept its rate for twenty-one days.

KESTREL
Calibre 19 · London
Next deliverySpring 2028
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Specification

Calibre 19 — technical particulars

01

Movement

Hand-wound, 21,600 vibrations an hour, free-sprung balance with four gold timing weights.

19Jewels
02

Finishing

Bevels drawn by hand at forty-five degrees; black-polished steel, six hours a bridge.

142Bench hours
03

Case

38.5 mm in white gold, platinum or hardened steel. Sapphire both sides, engraved lugs.

38.5Millimetres
04

Chronometry

Regulated in six positions across twenty-one days before the dial is ever fitted.

−1/+3Sec. per day
05

Delivery

Forty-two pieces a year, each with its timing certificate and the maker's name inside.

14Months