The atelier

Harold Finch.

We make fewer than five hundred watches a year. Each one passes through Harold's hands twice: once at assembly, and once before it leaves us.

Ashworth & Finch was founded in 2019, reviving a dormant 1878 Lancashire name. Harold previously spent twelve years at a Swiss manufacture before setting up in Southampton, with final assembly in Bienne.

The bench is small. Three people on the bench, one at the dial side, and Sarah across the room on allocations and correspondence. That's the whole house.

We regulate in five positions. We reject dials freely — roughly one in four for the blue fumé, one in six for the salmon. We do not put a date window in a piece that doesn't want one. And we don't take deposits until you've held the watch.

If you'd like to visit, tell Eleanor. Southampton is ninety minutes from London, and an afternoon with a watchmaker is, we believe, the only honest way to buy one.