Another prize added for the main draw!
Win a copy of "Elegantly Understated: 175 years of the Fears Watch Company" by Jane Duffus (Signed by the Author, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill and Roger Smith!) + Fears Bristol Blend Tea + a Fears Mug!
I feel very privileged to have known Nicholas Bowman-Scargill at Fears for almost all of the time that Time 4A Pint has existed.
He’s been a regular at Time 4A Pint GTGs, a guest on the Time 4A Pint Podcast [
Episode #44: Refounding Fears, and the journey to Brunswick (Square)], during Lockdown, he joined the Watchnerd and I for a very enjoyable virtualGTG [
Virtual GTG #8 - Nicholas Bowman-Scargill & Ming Thein] and in this year’s Easter Movember Raffle
he won my Seiko Cocktail Time!
So I was very excited when we were swapping messages a few weeks back and he offered to supply a fabulous prize for this year’s Time 4A Pint Movember Raffle.
Nicholas is a very busy chap these days (when hasn’t he been?!) so left me in the very capable hands of Richard France (owner relations at Fears) who has sent over details of a rather special Fears prize bundle, which includes:
1 x Hardback copy of
"Elegantly Understated: 175 years of the Fears Watch Company" by Jane Duffus (signed by Jane Duffas, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill and Roger Smith!)
”This beautifully bound hardback book, published to coincide with Fears’ 175th Anniversary, charts the history of the company from its founding in Bristol in 1846 by Edwin Fear, through to its closure in the late 70’s, and its subsequent re-founding in 2016 by one of Edwin’s 6th generation descendants, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill.
It is a detailed history not only of Britain's oldest watch company, but also of a family business that persevered through numerous world catastrophes such as two world wars and the great depression.
The book has a chapter devoted to each of the four managing directors who have been at the helm of the company over the years and contains numerous full colour photographs and illustrations from the Fears archive, of both watches and artefacts, along with maps of the former locations and the logos used by the company in each era.”
1 x bag of Fears Bristol Belnd BReakfast Tea - which is ONLY available at Fears HQ
1 x Fears Mug (also possibly pilfered from Fears HQ in Bristol) to drink your tea from
Not having made it over to Bristol to visit the new Fears HQ I am hopeful that whoever wins this prize is local to me and offers me a brew!
Huge thanks to Nicholas Bowman-Scargill and the entire Fears team for their support = to learn more about Fears head to
https://www.fearswatches.com/
Note: This prize ships from the UK
https://www.time4apint.com/store/2022-time-4a-pint-movember-raffle-ticket