ARES® WATCH CO. ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER SNOW, SMALL BATCH DROP

Stanwood, WA – Who says you can’t wear white after Labor Day?

ARES Watch Co., manufacturer of American operational Mission Timers, is turning a blind eye to that tradition and is launching the next line in their ARES WORKS (the internal ARES custom shop modeled after the famed Skunk Works) small batch selection on Friday, September 19th at 12:00 PM EST.

This month is a true dirty dozen, 12 of 12 Limited Edition ALPINE FIELD-1 300M automatic Field Timers, in the CERAKOTE© Snow White – a rich snowy white color developed for Crye Precision’s MultiCam Alpine™.

The ARES FIELD-1 Mission Timer is manufactured with precision ETA Swiss movements, currently used for the automatic DIVER-1 (ETA 2824) which are assembled, timed, and regulated by ARES watchmakers, including finishing.

FIELD-1 Specs:

Case, Caseback, Crown & Bezel

• Turned from a solid bar of 316L stainless steel in Ogden, UT
• Hand finished in bead blast Urban Stainless
• 41.0mm single piece case with individually serialized, engraved, solid case back with screwback construction
• 42.0mm fixed bezel
• 49.5mm lug to lug 22mm drilled lugs with 1.8mm shoulderless spring bars
• 10 o’clock ‘fat head’ 7.2mm LumiNova logo’d screw down crown, featuring aggressive ‘no slip’ teeth and double Viton seals

Crystal, Dial & Hands

• Domed sapphire crystal with inner anti-reflective AR coating
• ARES Bright White dial with Super LumiNova surrounding a hand-tuned COSC-spec ETA 2824 automatic movement

Performance & Testing

• Individually tested and certified, fully assembled, to 35BAR = 350M.
• Anti-magnetic rating 18.8Oe, shock resistant to NIHS-91-10 standards, and thermo-compensated -0 to 50+ C

“September Snow,” will also feature ARES’ first-ever run of Cordura Nylon straps in MultiCam Alpine™. The 22mm wide x 270mm long MultiCam Alpine™ LASH strap, is cut & sewn in-house with ESSTAC, featuring rounded PVD steel buckles (2.8mmx13.5mmx28mm).

These timers are fully custom mission timers, hand-built to each buyer.  While ARES custom mission timers typically ship within 2-4 weeks, this small batch series from the ARES WORKS shop will ship the week of the 22nd.

The “September Snow,” Small Batch will arrive in a matching Alpine™ watch roll and personally engraved Seahorse SE56 lockable travel case.

“What makes limited editions like this so much fun is: we cut our own steel, we build our own timers, we make things – so the variety of what we’re able to do is limitless,” says ARES Founder, Matt Graham. “It gives us the ability to be responsive to our customers who want custom timers made in America and guaranteed for life. Those are the things we do best.”

About ARES Watch Co.

Founded in 2018, ARES Watch Co. LLC of Stanwood, WA is a manufacturer of American operational Mission Timers. It employs five watchmakers and craftsmen who combine steel components cut in Washington with precision Swiss movements and dials to create Mission Timers for some of the nation’s most elite operators.