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Bremont, Bremont, Bremont. What are we to make of Bremont? It’s been a year now since Bremont first announced their Terra Nova collection alongside a complete corporate rebrand, and while we’ve seen the brand expand the Terra Nova line a few times since then with new colorways and materials, Bremont had — until now, that is — kept the lineup of their field watch fairly restrained. Now, we’re seeing them break away from the trio of models they released last year with a pair of jump hour models; one in bronze, the other in steel.
Built around a “unique and exclusive” jumping hour movement developed by Bremont with Sellita, the Bremont Jumping Hour 40.5 Steel and Jumping Hour Bronze are a fun take on what has been a fairly down-the-middle field watch by integrating what is a surprisingly long-standing wristwatch complication. Jumping hour wristwatches have been around since at least the 1920s — Cartier introduced, by way of example, the Tank à Guichets in 1928 — and have remained a constant in the century since.
Here, Bremont is offering up two distinct takes on the concept, each in the rough format of the Terra Nova. The stainless steel Bremont Terra Nova Jumping Hours 40.5 Steel takes after watches like the Fears Brunswick jump hour, with a traditional sweep seconds hand, and a jump hour and minute window sitting at 9 o’clock. All this is supplemented by a black lacquer dial, with luminous material throughout and the minute track off of a standard Terra Nova. The Bremont Jumping Hours 40.5 Steel is a standard production model and is priced at $4,000 on a leather strap and $4,300 on a matching bracelet.
The Bremont Terra Nova Jumping Hours Bronze follows more closely in the footsteps of watches like the Cartier Tank à Guichets, with a closed bronze cover shielding most of the dial, save a window for the large jump hour display, a central cutout for the running seconds (overlayed over the Bremont Wayfinder) and a running minute display below all that. Dial text here is engraved into the capped case. The Terra Nova Jumping Hours Bronze is rendered, like other recent bronze releases from the brand, in a cupro-aluminum bronze alloy, and is limited to 200 pieces (100 on a matching bracelet, 100 on a leather strap). The Terra Nova Jumping Hours Bronze is priced at $5,220 on a leather strap, and $5,650 on a bracelet and is available now. Bremont
