Bremont Solo watches

The Bremont Solo is a time-and-date watch from the British brand Bremont, founded in 2002 by the brothers Nick and Giles English, whose father was a former RAF pilot. Bremont launched the Solo in a 43 mm case in 2012 and followed it later that year with the Solo 37, a smaller and lighter version of the same watch.

The case is Bremont's three-piece Trip-Tick construction of bezel, caseband and caseback, in steel hardened to 2,000 Vickers to resist scratches, with sapphire crystal front and back and 100 m of water resistance. The knurled crown carries the brand's propeller logo. Inside is the BE-36AE, a Swiss self-winding movement finished by Bremont, running at 28,800 vph (4 Hz) with a 38-hour power reserve. It is a COSC-certified chronometer, and the dial says so.

The triangle at 12 o'clock follows the pilot's watches of the 1940s. Around it sit applied Arabic numerals, batons at 3, 6 and 9, luminous hands framed in the same colour as the numerals, a red-tipped central seconds hand and a date at 3 o'clock.

The Solo 37 versions share the 37 mm steel case and differ in dial and trim. The Solo37BkSi has a black dial and the Solo37Si a silver one. The Solo37SiRg pairs the silver dial with gold numerals. The two-tone Solo37RG goes further, with a red gold bezel on the steel case and gold numerals on a silver dial. Each also comes on a bracelet, which adds Br to the reference: Solo37Si on a strap, Solo37SiBr on the bracelet.