GS/TP’s Telegraph watch draws influence from Morse Code operator’s pocket watches produced in the early 20th Century by various makers, including the West End Watch Co. of St-Imier, Switzerland. Rather than spelling out full numbers to express times, using these watches as a key the time could be tapped out as a single letter, from ‘A’ at 1am to ‘Z’ at midnight. AM times are printed in red around the outer ring, and PM is in blue. The steel pencil hands are polished for the military black dialled version, and blued on the ordnance cream dial, for the highest legibility.

The custom-milled surgical steel case is quad-screwed with a bubble back, finished with linear brushing on the sides, radial brushing on the back, and mirror polishing on the thruppenny bezel, inspired by a British ‘thruppenny bit’ (three pence coin), which was dodecagonal from 1936 until its withdrawal in 1971. The twelve points of the bezel line up with the hour indices.

The gently twisted bombe lugs are half drilled- the lug holes on the crown side are only semi drilled, while the lugs on the left side are fully drilled. This anachronistic detail, taken from some early Rolex models, combines the convenience of fully drilled lugs with a slightly cleaner profile on the crown side of the watch.

• 28mm diameter brushed stainless steel cushion case
• Half drilled lugs with spring bars to fit any 18mm strap
• Domed crystal engraved ‘G’ in the centre
• Fully adjustable ‘wheat ear’ mesh bracelet with signed clasp
• Japanese made Seiko quartz movement
• Screw-down crown
• Made in Tokyo, Japan