Founder Story
Designed by hand. Made in small batches. Built for collectors who care about the details.
Most watch brands will tell you about their heritage. I can't offer you decades of history. What I can offer you is something rarer in this industry: a single designer, with full creative control, who obsesses over every decision from the first sketch to the finished dial.
That's Ember. And that's me.
My background isn't traditional watchmaking. I studied automotive and product design, spent years working in furniture design, and had a genuine interest in watches - without ever falling deep into the collector world. That turned out to be an advantage.
When I decided to design a watch, I didn't arrive with decades of genre conventions in my head. I didn't know which design rules I was supposed to follow, which case shapes were considered safe, or which dial layouts the community expected. I just approached it the way I'd approach any design problem - with curiosity, rigour, and a lot of iteration. The naivety was real. So was the freedom it gave me.
The result is a watch that doesn't look like it was designed by committee, or assembled from a catalogue of approved microbrand parts. It looks like what it is: a designer's first response to a brief he set himself, unconstrained by what already existed.
The Approach
Every Ember watch begins the same way. A problem to solve. A design language to develop. Dozens of decisions - some visible, most invisible - about how a case should sit on the wrist, how a dial should read in different light, how a colour should feel at 8am versus 8pm. I work in small batches. Not because it's a convenient marketing line, but because that's what considered production looks like when one person is accountable for every detail. When a batch sells out, it's gone. The next one won't arrive straight away - because doing it properly takes time.
British Design
Ember is based in Devon, and that matters to me. British design has a particular character - restrained where it needs to be, bold where it counts, always rooted in function. It's a traditon you will see embodies every Ember watch.