RUFUS GERARD - CANADA
Canada's only independent luxury watch company, featuring small, exclusive, limited editions
This collaboration with Japan's top luxury maker has produced a truly rare and precious watch.
Rufus Gerard. A distinguished Canadian name in the Swiss-dominated luxury watch industry. A name found on only a very small number of high-end, mechanical watches, each crafted and assembled by highly skilled, experienced and meticulous watchmakers using traditional watchmaking methods in a remote mountain workshop.
Rufus Gerard watches incorporate complex, high precision automatic movements manufactured by Seiko Instruments (SII), the absolute and unchallenged leader in luxury mechanical watch production in Japan. The quality and precision of these movements are recognized by horologists worldwide to be among the very best. SII produces Credor and Grand Seiko watches, which are among the most expensive watches in Japan, and many of those high-end timepieces are unavailable outside that country.
The decisive lines of the bold Canadian design, the use of the finest luxury materials (including, for example, gorgeous black straps from legally farmed crocodiles in Papua New Guinea, highly polished steel and the best quality curved sapphire crystal available), the incorporation of extremely high precision technology (production takes place under our close supervision entirely in quality-obsessed Japan by skilled watchmakers with decades of experience), and the careful hand-and-loupe detailing of movement components make each hand-crafted Rufus Gerard watch very valuable indeed.
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Lacus Temporis US$8,800
As the main Canadian designer on the design team, I am proud that we have produced a truly beautiful gentlemen's luxury watch. Our design meetings focused on making no compromises regarding the quality of materials and luxury finishes, while incorporating one of the finest Japanese mechanical movements available, decorated and modified for Rufus Gerard. In terms of complications and functions, I found a power reserve indicator and date calendar to be essential in a watch of this calibre. And we managed to keep the watch below $9,000, which was a design goal from the beginning!
As with any top-end luxury watch, above all else, it has to look beautiful, and it must be rare, and the Rufus Gerard Lacus Temporis delivers on both counts. This is a small limited-edition of 350 beautiful timepieces, each with its serial number individually engraved in the watch case. Please click on the photograph to view details and more images of what I hope will be your next luxury wristwatch.
