UNIFORM WARES
STORY SO FAR
Founded in 2009 by Patrick Bek and Oliver Fowles, two product designers who met studying at Birmingham. Before launching the watch brand they showed accordion-style folding furniture at Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2006. Uniform Wares set up in east London (now headquartered in a Shoreditch studio) with a remit of making restrained, design-led wristwatches drawing on the visual language of mid-century British factory wall clocks (think Smiths Sectric and Gent of Leicester). The 100 Series sits in the permanent design collection of SFMOMA. The brand has expanded into mechanical and quartz models including the M-, C- and N-Series, all sharing the same disciplined, minimal aesthetic.
DESIGNED BY
In-house Uniform Wares design team led by co-founders Patrick Bek and Oliver Fowles, working from the brand's Shoreditch studio in east London. UK-based: Yes.
MADE BY
Per the brand's own statements: every watch is designed and developed in its London studio, with components manufactured by select international parts partners, and final assembly carried out in Switzerland (the brand markets watches as Swiss Made). Strap suppliers are named by country: Milanese mesh from Germany, shell cordovan leather from Japan, nitrile rubber from Italy, and additional leather work from France. Aftercare service and repair are handled at the brand's London centre. No published parts-by-percentage breakdown beyond country-of-origin per component category.
