Swiss Watchmaking with English Roots
Arnold & Son is named after the famous 18th-century English watchmaker John Arnold. The golden age of maritime exploration and discovery propelled watchmaking towards a new ideal of accuracy necessary for astronavigation, which was used to determine longitude at sea. Astronomy, chronometry and what we now call ‘world time’ are thus inextricably linked to the same quest for precision to which John Arnold devoted his life. As a result, these three principles – Astronomy, Chronometry and World Time – are all embodied in Arnold & Son’s contemporary timepieces.