Version One and Version Two; Build Your Own Watch could be in a built state or the way we provided it, as a stack of petri dishes with each watch part you choose stacked, and video instructions on how to case your own Build Your Own Watch.
If you were watching close we for a very short time offered our Pilot Watch as a Build Your Own Watch before finally coming to our senses ensuring Cincinnati Watch Company is a warrantied and locally assembled precision machine.
The second Build Your Own Watch was a completely new watch, with a custom case, dial, and hand design.
The first Cincinnati Watch Company watch, the Union Terminal Watch, commemorates an incredible restoration of our beloved Union Terminal in 2018, including the clock.
Rick worked on this design for 13 months, over and over, returning to the team who immediately would agree, No. Rick new, he kept trying. One day, he calls Mark, "You Never Told Me Your Cousin Works for The Tri State Warbird Museum!!!". Well, I know we're a tight company, but do you want all of my relatives' ages and jobs? Rick was elated, the perfectly restored Warbirds from 1938-1945, specifically the P-40M RNZAF brought our American history to life and the history of how American clock dial came to be. Our pilot watch series is the P-40M Pilot Watch based on the P-40M restored by The Tri State Warbird Museum.
Cincinnati is a field watch town. Sure, flyboys like pilot watches but the workforce is wearing the field watch. A field we can sport in a resturaunt, now we're talking. Rick Bell's design combines texture and function allowing light to play on an everyday wearer for the people.
From the quality component packed Diver's Edition to the cool desk diver professional travel along the saga of the dive watch horologium
We honor our favorite watch company The Captain in the first year the iconic design came out; we honored to provide a new production of this most important American watch designs.
In honor of our favorite watch company, another watch in the Time Hill series, the Guild was a tribute to our favorite watch over their storied history. 5 years later Mark is given his grandfather's watch, it was the same watch Rick & Jordan honored in the original Guild! There are no coincidences, only incredible American watch design.
The Union Terminal is home to a vast collection of murals created by German born artist Winold Reiss. Reiss emigrated from Germany in 1913 and established himself as a portraitist and interior decorator.
Winold Reiss created 1/3 scale glass mosaic tiles figures depicting the cultural heritage and industry of Cincinnati. Collaborating with the Ravenna Tile Company of New York the manufactured and shipped the tiles he formed, his art massive larger than life murals.
Union Terminal underwent the first full historic restoration in its 85-year history from 2016 to 2018. In the process, crews secured the Art Deco train station’s steel structure, repaired damaged masonry, secured the exterior envelope, updated aging mechanical systems and restored historic elements including light fixtures, artwork and the building’s iconic clock and fountain. With the National Historic Landmark’s future secured, it will continue to be a place where the past is preserved and lifelong memories are made.
This picture is of the Union Terminal clock before the 2018 renovation. It has red glass indices that were backlit by a light pointing behind the clock and metal reflectors dispersing the light behing the red glass. The dial face panels are a cream color semi opaque glass. The hands were filled with white. Pinkish red neon tubes outlined the border of the hands.