In Conversation With Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers and Lewis Heath (Founder, AnOrdain)
HODINKEE Podcasts19 Juni 2024

In Conversation With Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers and Lewis Heath (Founder, AnOrdain)

My guests this week are watchmaker Dr. Rebecca Struthers and Lewis Heath, founder of AnOrdain. The two are friends and collaborators, so it was fun to get them both together for a conversation about watchmaking in the U.K., what they're up to, and what's next.

Lewis Heath founded AnOrdain in 2015. Since then, the Scottish brand has become known for its beautifully crafted enamel dials. He founded the company after working as a product designer and deciding he wanted to make something closer to home.

Dr. Rebecca Struthers is a watchmaker and co-founder of Struthers Watchmakers along with her husband and fellow watchmaker, Craig. The two began their business as restorers, but after realizing they'd made pretty much every other component for other people's watches, decided to build their own. This was the beginning of Project 248, their effort to build their own in-house movement. Struthers also became the first watchmaker in the United Kingdom to complete a Ph.D program, making her the country's first "watch doctor."

Show Notes

3:00: Lewis' Dubley & Schaldenbrand watch

4:59: Rebecca's HSNY talk on Dutch forgeries

8:38: Hands on Time, by Rebecca Struthers (publisher page); read the Hodinkee review here

9:16: Value Proposition: The AnOrdain Model 1

9:50: AnOrdain and Struthers Project 248 enamel dials

14:04: Hands-On: AnOrdain Model 1 'Fume'

33:45: British Horological Institute

58:00: Rebecca's Movado Weems watch

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