RGM watches

RGM was founded in 1992 by the American watchmaker Roland G. Murphy in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania; the name is formed from his initials. The company makes watches with its own movements as well as with Swiss movements, and, according to Murphy, produces about 200 watches a year, around a quarter of them made to order.

Its Caliber 801 is named after the workshop's address on West Main Street in Mount Joy. Its bridges take their design from a 1915 E. Howard pocket watch, and RGM makes about 90 per cent of its components. The Caliber 20, a shaped movement, followed in 2012 for the brand's 20th anniversary, and the Pennsylvania Tourbillon uses the Calibre MM2. Many RGM dials are decorated with guilloché made on antique engine-turning machines.