Giles English
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Giles English emerges as a Pioneer whose leadership is rooted in the deliberate resurrection of a lost industrial craft in a market long ceded to Swiss dominance.
“A hundred years ago we were making half the world's watches and at the time that Nick and I had this crazy idea there wasn't a single British watch company you could buy off the shelf.”
Explaining the founding impulseundated
“It always takes three times longer, it always costs three times more and it's three times more effort. If you're not willing to go for that three times rule on day one, give up now.”
Advice for entrepreneursundated
“We would have made so much more money if we just outsourced the manufacturing. But that wouldn't have been any fun. That wouldn't have built up British watchmaking.”
On the strategic choice to manufacture in the UKundated
Money Maze Podcast: “Building a Global Luxury Watch Brand - With Giles English, Founder and CEO of Bremont Watches”
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