Happenings: Nicholas Bowman-Scargill To Lecture At The Horological Society Of New York
What does it take to bring an old family watch brand back to life? From the planning, research and trademarking to working out how to actually make the watches, there are many aspects to consider. At the September 2024 lecture of the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, managing director of the Fears Watch Company, will discuss how three British watch companies were restarted by a member of the founding family in the past decade: Duckworth Preston, Fears, and Vertex.
About Nicholas Bowman-Scargill
Nicholas Bowman-Scargill is the fourth managing director of his family’s British watch company, Fears, which he restarted in 2016 after 39 years of dormancy. He works from the company’s head office in its original home city of Bristol in the western part of the UK. Alongside the dedicated team at Fears, he oversees the creation of elegant and understated watches that are hand built in England acting as a modern interpretation of what Fears made before. Nicholas has been a longtime watch enthusiast since receiving his first watch at the age of six and spending five years as an apprentice watchmaker at Rolex.
Details
The September 6, 2024, HSNY lecture will take place at the General Society Library in Midtown Manhattan, located at 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036. Free tickets are required to attend. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the lecture begins at 6 PM. All HSNY lectures are free, open to the public, and video-recorded. Recorded lectures are made available to HSNY members immediately, and to the general public with a two-month delay.
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