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Words: Gentleman's Journal
The best sort of history is the sort you can touch. Whether it’s walking around the ruins of Pompeii, peering into a Priest Hole in a tudor manor house or strolling through a poppy-strewn WWI battlefield in France, the immersive experience makes the history stick way more than any GCSE textbook ever did. So imagine what it would feel like to own a piece of history that you could actually wear.
Well, now you can. The latest watch from Bremont is called the Codebreaker, and it’s a little bit of history from one of the most important places in England: Bletchley Park. Bletchley was famously where the German Enigma code was broken during the Second World War. It’s a place steeped in intrigue: think of the MI6 officers casing the joint, the thousands of men and women huddled in the secret centre, painstakingly unlocking Hitler’s messages, the fact that the world’s first computer was based here. Each codebreaker watch – they are in a limited editition of 240 in steel and 50 in rose gold – will actually contain a little piece of Bletchley Park. It could be a tiny strip of paper from one of the analysis cards, a scrap of pine from the hut where the Enigma code was cracked or the metal from the original codebreaker machines. The watches are designed to look like 1940s officers watches, so they’re pretty slick, with sharp lines, soft edges and typical Bremont class. The perfect watch for your inner history buff – and outer James Bond. bremont.com
By Violet Hudson
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