One To Watch: Why This Dapper Englishman Left His Gig At Rolex To Relaunch His Family Business, Fears Watches
This was around 2013. Two and a half years and a one-night course in Adobe Illustrator later, Bowman-Scargill felt in a good enough position to move forward. “And saved up enough money because Fears has no funding, it’s all self-funded by my husband and myself,” he added. In 2016, at the now-defunct Salon QP watch show, Fears brought out two versions of a watch called the Redcliff, named after the street in Bristol where Fears Watches had started 170 years ago. One was a blue dial, one was a white dial, and it had a Swiss quartz movement, a simple round shape, and pipette hands that are still the company signature. “Some of our hands are solid,” he explains. “Some are open. It’s a hand shape that Fears used between the 1930s and the 1950s.”