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Bamford Peanuts "Joe Preppy" GMT Limited Edition for HODINKEE, 2022
- Maker / attribution
- Bamford Watch Department (maker)
- Date
- 2022
- Historical period
- Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
- Country of origin
- Unrecorded in source
- Object type
- Wristwatch
- Dimensions
- Case 40 mm
- Stock no.
- 40991487
- Credit line
- Dealer listing, Analog/Shift (40991487)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Bamford Peanuts "Joe Preppy" GMT Limited Edition for HODINKEE (English)
Editor's note
The dealer's brand field named another maker; the dealer's own listing title identifies the watch as Bamford Watch Department.View the source record (dealer listing) ↗ (opens another website in a new tab)Suggest a correction
Record summary
Catalogued by Analog/Shift (dealer), New York (stock number 40991487), this is a wristwatch by Bamford Watch Department, dated 2022. The Atlas places it in the Contemporary Horology period (2010 – Present) of its Wristwatches collection. Recorded dimensions: Case 40 mm. The record is illustrated with 6 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Dealer description — Analog/Shift
Sometimes, all you want is to shed some of the seriousness of our beloved horological hobby in favor of some levity. Hence this watch from London-based Bamford. A special edition of 250 numbered pieces made for HODINKEE, it marries a handy GMT complication with a hard-wearing case, and — we bet you didn’t see this coming — a dial featuring America’s favorite beagle, Snoopy. Dressed in his preppy Sunday best, Snoopy’s arms form the watch’s hands, while his best friend Woodstock forms the tip of the GMT hand. Housed in a 40mm, brushed stainless steel cushion case with a signed crown, a numbered caseback, a sapphire crystal, and a bezel-control crown at 10 o’clock, it features a dark brown Snoopy ‘Joe Preppy’ dial with matching hands, an outer 1/5th-seconds track in white, a date window at 3 o’clock, and an internal, 24-hour bezel in black and white. A “caller” GMT, the watch is powered by the Swiss-made Sellita SW330-2 automatic movement with independently adjustable GMT hour hand. Paired to an excellent brown Cordura strap with white contrast stitching, this preppy travel watch — which comes with its playful ‘dog house’ packaging and papers dated to 2022 — is the perfect everyday companion. Once you strap it on your wrist and glance down at America’s favorite beagle, we’re sure you’ll agree!
Historical context
Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
Silicon components, connected watches, optical-lattice research clocks and a thriving independent scene.
Smartwatches became the world's best-selling watches, while mechanical watchmaking focuses on craft, innovation (silicon components, new escapements) and independent makers.
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Atlas type guide
Military, pilot and travel watches
The wristwatch owes much of its adoption by men to warfare and aviation. Wristlets — small pocket watches soldered with lugs and worn on a strap — were used in colonial campaigns and became standard equipment in the First World War, with protective grilles over the crystal ('shrapnel guards'). Louis Cartier's Santos (1904), designed for the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, is often cited as an early purpose-made pilot's watch.
In the Second World War governments specified watches in detail: the German B-Uhr observation watches, the American A-11, and the British 'W.W.W.' (the 'Dirty Dozen' set of 1945). After the war, jet travel brought GMT and world-time watches, which show two or more time zones at once — Louis Cottier's world-time mechanism and the Rolex GMT-Master (1955) are examples.
What to look for
- Military markings on the case back: broad arrow, issue numbers, 'W.W.W.', 'A.T.P.'
- High-legibility black dials with luminous Arabic numerals; oversized crowns for gloved hands.
- 24-hour hands and rotating 24-hour bezels or city rings on GMT/world-time watches.
- Wire lugs on early wristlets converted from pocket watches.
Dating clues
- Wire-lug wristlets: c. 1900–1925.
- Military specifications of the Second World War: 1939–1945.
- GMT and world-time wristwatches: mainly after 1950.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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