About Us

The art of hand crafted precision with the highest quality delivered through a timepiece, made in Canada. Starting initially in Toronto, Ontario, Dave made the move Westwards to Calgary. It all started with a journey to Switzerland an appreciation for fine hand crafted products, and Swiss engineering, and coming back to Canada, with a deep history of railroads and mountaineers exploring the Rocky Mountains. Purchasing a rose engine machine (only a handful people in the world have mastered the craft) and playing off this in the creation of the perfect watch dial. 

History of time keeping in Canada

The first collection is inspired by the history of time through North America, paying tribute to famous Canadian time keeping innovation, Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time. As a career, he helped to survey and plan the Intercolonial Railway, and then, as director of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, supervising the completion of the first trans-Canadian railroad. Before standard time existed every village in North America had time kept through solar time, with over 

Every time zone in North America was based on solar noon, for example if it were noon in Montreal then it was 11:48 a.m. in Kingston and 11:35 a.m. in Toronto. These discrepancies added up to trains that were impossible to schedule. Fleming’s solution was brilliantly simple — divide the world into 24 time zones, one for every hour of the day. It was a generalization (each zone was 15 degrees longitude or 500 miles apart) that paradoxically made timetables more precise.

This incident led Fleming to propose a worldwide system of 24 time zones, each spaced 15 degrees longitude apart. His system was a direct response to the chaos of local, non-standardized time. The major North American railroad companies began operating on a coordinated time zone system in 1883, and Fleming's proposal was adopted globally at the International Prime Meridian Conference in 1884. 

The company pays tribute to this history, and the first collection of watches called the Canadian Nord, inspired by Sir Stanford Fleming.