American Ingenuity
The Waltham Field & Marine, built to resist trench warfare, was the first waterproof watch. A testimony of American innovation and industrial ingenuity.
Life
Nobody, including Government, can try to end your life. Government should take appropriate measures to safeguard life and to protect you if your life is at risk.
Liberty
Freedom from unnecessary restrictions; from making your own choices; from experiencing your own life and from expressing your opinion.
Happiness
The right to equality of opportunity, and not of outcome; private property; to dispose of the fruits of your labor as you deem fit; to privacy; to family and to low taxation.
Field & Marine Independence 12 Pennsylvania
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 Connecticut
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 Delaware
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 Georgia
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Indpendence 12 Maryland
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 Massachusetts
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 New Hampshire
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 New Jersey
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 New York
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 North Carolina
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 South Carolina
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 Rhode Island
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Field & Marine Independence 12 Virginia
Automatic (Sellita SW200)
41mm
Black PVD coated stainless steel
30ATM water-resistant
Bayonet crown and compressor case-back
X1 grade Superluminova® luminous
Handmade genuine leather strap
Swiss made
Unique piece
Thirteen colonies united in Freedom
United by one of the most important
documents for the liberty of the individual
ever written.
The grievances
There were many grievances, amongst which taxation without representation and that there had been a general disregard in England of any laws passed in the colonies. The list of grievances aimed at King George III included these points:
- For imposing taxes on us without our consent
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury
- For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us
- For protecting them, by mock trials
- For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world
One of the most brilliant men of his time
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the chief author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1776-79, elected Governor of Virginia in 1779 and 1780, the Associate Envoy to France in 1784, Minister to the French Court in 1785, United States Secretary of State from 1789-1793, Vice President of the United States from 1791-1801, President of the United States from 1801-1809 and established the University of Virginia in 1810. He was one of the most brilliant men of his time.
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred on July 4th, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, later to become known as Independence Hall.
The 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress represented the 13 colonies, 12 of which voted to approve the Declaration of Independence. The New York delegation abstained because they had not yet received instructions from Albany to vote for independence.
The Declaration proclaimed the signatory colonies were now "free and independent States," no longer colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain and, thus, no longer a part of the British Empire.
One Colony. One Watch
One unique piece for each of the 13 Colonies present at the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
The engraving
Each unique price carries the preamble to the Declaration of Independence on the case-back. This preable exposes the 3 main ideas behind the declaration and the vision of a new American Nation and Civil Society.
The Waltham Watch Company
Founded in 1850 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, it moved four years later to the small town that would give the company its name.
Since it beginnings, Waltham has always stood out for the high-precision and superior performance of its instruments. These characteristics earned Waltham a place with the most important organizations and institutions at the beginning of the 20th Century, including the U.S. Military, and Railroad Companies in 52 countries across 7 continents.
Waltham industrialised watchmaking and was the largest watch brand in the world in the first half of the 20th century.
The watch
The Box
Handmade solid wooden box for each
with unique piece and colony inscrption.
Key features
About the brand
The inventor of the American watchmaking system. An incredible story of human ingenuity.
The inspiration
The original 1919 Waltham-Depollier
Field & Marine trench watch.
We made the Field & Marine like Waltham would have made it today .We respected the 1918 design DNA and applied the technology and aesthetic codes of today. The crown-caseback-bezel tripych now guarantees a water resistance of 1000ft-300m giving a new meaning to the word “Marine” in Field & Marine. A trench watch for today with professional diving capability.
An official collaboration with a mission. Waltham belongs back to America. There is its legacy and from there it made watchmaking history. The mid-long term goal of this official collaboration between the Waltham Watch Company and Watch Angels is to bring back Waltham’s production to the US with the help of the watch enthusiasts community.
The production of the new Waltham Field & Marine has been funded by Angels in February 2021.
Project curator
Stan Czubernat
Stan Czubernat is a historian and self-trained watchmaker and restorator of antique watches from the pre-WWI era up to the late 1930s. He is self-trained in the craft of antique watch restoration. He specializes in the Waltham and Elgin brands but on occasion will restore an Illinois or a Hampden time piece from this period.
He has restored over one thousand antique trench watches and wrist watches, his favorites being the Waltham Depolliers, RED 12's, Elgin's Star Dial Series and semi-hermetic cases. Stan is the author of two books about WWI American Trench Watches, "Waltham Trench Watches of the Great War" and "Elgin Trench Watches of the Great War". He is the founder of LRF Antique watches.
Stan has assured the historical consistency of the project and has collaborated in the design of the new Field & Marine.
