Marloe Watch Company offers Daytimer Collection styles perfect for grooms

The Marloe Watch Company based near Henley-on-Thames recently launched a new line of watches in the Daytimer Collection that make ideal gifts for grooms.

The Daytimer is a Swiss-made manual watch with date complications, intended for everyday wear. The broad dials and unobtrusive, subtle design are rooted in simplicity, functionality and ergonomics.

The Daytimer comes in four editions: the Madainn; the Black Edition; the Gealach and the Tableau, each featuring a considered, minimalist and pared-back 41mm case with a seconds hand and date window positioned at 6 o'clock. The Madainn, Scottish Gaelic for the morning, and the Black Edition are more minimal and monochromatic while the Gealach, Scottish Gaelic for the moon, and the Tableau both employ a more colourful palette.

All four watches feature subtle design touches that reveal themselves as the light changes throughout the day; The paper-like grain on the dials of the Madainn and the Black Edition, for example, and the honeycomb texture on the dials of the Gealach and the Tableau. The brass chamfer on the Madainn adds a warm glow to an otherwise monochrome dial, inspired by the sun rising over the snow-covered hill outside Gordon's Scottish home. Similarly, the functions on the Tableau are colour-matched, with white for hours, yellow for minutes and red for seconds.

Gordon Fraser, Marloe's co-founder and designer says, "The main objective was to create a watch that people will want to wear every day," Gordon says. "It affords the convenience and clarity of time, the accuracy of Swiss timekeeping and the impeccable quality of a timepiece many times its price. It feels comfortable to wear and engaging to use." Some two years in the making, the development of Marloe's Daytimer resulted in a sea-change in the brand's approach to watch design; creating a new resolve to design and engineer only products that truly reflect the independent British watchmaker's founding principles. "On the face of it, the Daytimer looks like a formal watch, with a mirror-polished case and a simple dial design," says Gordon. "But the more you let the design soak in, the more it feels like a casual, everyday piece. The hope is for the Daytimer to appeal to everyone."

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