6th December 2018
The Struthers First In House Movement
Dr Rebecca Struthers FBHI
For this years “George Daniels Lecture” we are delighted to welcome Rebecca Struthers FBHI.
Rebecca is half of the husband-and-wife team behind the multi-award-winning Struthers Watchmakers’ workshops and studio. Both practitioners who started their training in vintage and antique watch restoration; Craig and Rebecca Struthers founded their first workshop in 2012. Inspired by the number of watches being destroyed by their local bullion industry in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, the Struthers started collecting the discarded movements and rebuilding them as new watches. Using hand tools and machinery made between the 1870s and 1950s, their recommissioning process involved stripping vintage and antique movements back to their component parts before reconstructing them with improvements to durability, timekeeping and regulation. They then create precious metal case for the watch using traditional casemaking techniques. During this process, the Struthers found realised they were capable making virtually every component for someone else’s watch, and so, decided it was time to create these components for their own watch.
In this talk, Rebecca will share some of their recent projects, and, the first half of their journey towards the creation of their first in-house movement which is due for completion in early 2020.
