he innovative design of Roger Smith’s new Series Six watch has been years in the making. During the development of the Series Four in 2014, Roger encountered a challenge with the dominant date hand obscuring key information and affecting legibility.

His innovative solution resulted in the travelling date aperture concept, which has been embraced by the wider watchmaking community.

Based on Roger’s established calibre with its 20 year history, the Series Six is a new British watch that combines a beautiful aesthetic with technological innovation and reliability. It is, like all Roger’s work, a truly original combination of three-dimensional mechanical architecture and art.

Every watch is painstakingly created by hand in Roger’s workshop from sketch to wrist, using the Daniels Method. He is the only watchmaker to do this. His workshop produces just fifteen to twenty watches each year, with some pieces taking over two years to build. Each piece is made to order.

Roger’s approach is to continually and obsessively push the boundaries of mechanical watchmaking. His ongoing development of the co-axial escapement has improved mechanical efficiency and longevity, leading to service intervals way beyond industry standards.

The Series Six, with its instantaneous date complication, is a celebration of Roger’s revolutionary travelling date aperture. The watch displays hours, minutes, and seconds on a floating dial centre, with the date indicated on a lower level.