Stauer Canterbury Watch

The watch that paid for my dinner

We turned back time to bring you this vintage-inspired classic.

In between courses at London’s Le Gavroche, I rolled back my sleeve to check the time. My British friend across the table took immediate notice of my Canterbury Watch. A self-described connoisseur of “the finer things,” he seemed genuinely surprised that a Yank like me actually had a sense of style. “I’ll bet you dinner that you can’t guess, within £1000, how much I paid for it,” I told him. Each of his guesses was over £5000. He was stunned when I delivered the bad news.

Time for a change. I used to buy all of my watches at auction. Then the rooms started getting crowded and the winning bids shot through the roof. It took me losing a lot of great finds to people with deeper pockets to realize something important: a great timepiece doesn’t have to cost a fortune.

They don’t make things like they used to. But we do. Our passion is for rescuing great watches forgotten by history. We find a timeless style and recreate it piece by piece, down to the most exacting detail. The Canterbury features a classic face with three subdials, a rose gold-finished case, and a genuine leather strap. It’s the kind of thoughtful design that harkens back to those rare, 150-year-old moon phases. It was a look that once could only be found under glass in a collector’s trophy room. Today, it can be on your wrist.

• Precision movement (Quartz)
• Stainless steel case back & crown
• 43mm case diameter
• 10mm case thickness
• 22mm band width
• Genuine leather band in brown fits wrists up to 8 ½”
• Date & day subdials, 24-hour & sun/moon dial at 6 o’clock
• Water-resistant to 3 ATM