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10 June, 2023
Roger’s cornerstone Pocket Watch No. 2 achieves a record $4.9m at auction
14 December, 2022
A Series 2 stars at the Bonhams Fine Watches auction
1 December, 2022
Series 1 watch achieves record £660,000 at A Collected Man’s special auction
14 November, 2022
DANIELS WRISTWATCH ACHIEVES A NEW WORLD RECORD HAMMER PRICE WITH NEW HIGHS FOR COLLABORATION WATCHES WITH ROGER SMITH…
07 November, 2022
A COLLECTED MAN TO OFFER A UNIQUE ROGER W. SMITH SERIES 1 AT AN EXCEPTIONAL AUCTION ON 11 NOVEMBER 2022
03 August, 2022
OUR 2022 BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY STUDENT WORK PLACEMENT
23 June, 2022
ONE WORKSHOP, TWO WORLD RECORDS. HISTORIC PRICES ACHIEVED FOR ROGER SMITH AND GEORGE DANIELS WATCHES AT PHILLIPS’ WATCH AUCTION 6.
25 May, 2022
ROGER REPRESENTS BRITISH WATCHMAKING AT PRIME MINISTER'S ‘SPRING SHOWCASE’
19 January, 2022
ROGER IS APPOINTED A TRUSTEE OF THE HOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
19 January, 2022
2021 ENDS ON A HIGH WITH A WORLD RECORD $730,800 (£551,000) ACHIEVED FOR A 2018 SERIES 1 AT AUCTION
03 December, 2021
Birmingham City University horology student completes a very successful work placement at our workshops
12 November, 2021
Phillips Geneva watch auction XIV - A Roger W. Smith Series 2 achieves a new British record price
14 October, 2021
A Series 5 ‘Open Dial’ becomes Roger’s first Arabic-Hindu creation
1 June, 2021
Ultra rare Series 1 “Onely Theo Fennell” achieves over $600,000 (£428,000) and a British record at auction
22 January, 2021
Roger completes his landmark 100th watch - and it’s the first Series 4
30 October, 2020
Roger is co-founder of a new trade body for British watch and clock making
07 August, 2020
Roger is recognised in commemorative stamp issue
13 July, 2020
The First
16 May, 2020
Series 6 Watch
Now in development
27 January, 2020
“The Blue”.
Designed by George Daniels. Built by Roger W. Smith.
Sold for £1 million.
03 December, 2019
Roger delivers the 2019 George Daniels Lecture to a packed theatre at City, University of London
12 August, 2019
Roger re-cases his original Series 2 prototype, No. 000-P and reflects on a watch which changed everything…
17 May, 2019
Phillips auction achieves record price for Daniels Anniversary watch
07 May, 2019
Roger W. Smith's first ever production watch is released for sale
05 April, 2019
Watchmaker Roger W. Smith announces nano-science research collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University
28 March, 2019
Roger Smith to make major technical announcement at the UK Government’s ‘Designing Our Future’ event, New York, 2-4 April
14 March, 2019
The Great Britain watch is reimagined as a series of drawings by artist, Lee Yuen-Rapati
17 January, 2019
Roger is awarded the degree of Honorary Doctor of Birmingham City University
21 November, 2018
Roger Awarded his OBE by Prince Charles
11 June, 2018
Roger is awarded an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours
01 May, 2018
Masters of Horology
20 April, 2018
A moment in the history of time...
21 December, 2017
Roger’s lecture on the Development of a Practical Watch Escapement at the Horological Society of New York
01 December, 2017
Roger Smith to lecture at the horological society of New York
28 September, 2017
Space Traveller and Millennium watches achieve record prices at Sotheby's
05 May, 2017
Roger to be juror of the 2017 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève
22 September, 2016
Hodinkee’s “The Road Through Britain” leads to Roger
29 June, 2016
Roger’s work inspires art photography project
2 November, 2015
Roger W Smith wins the best british craftsmanship award at the 2015 walpole british luxury awards
26 October, 2015
Roger W. Smith to reveal his first range of watches at Salon QP
2 June, 2015
Exclusive interview with Roger after the New York City premiere of ‘The Watchmaker’s Apprentice’
10 March, 2015
Roger Smith exhibits and speaks at the GREAT Festival of Creativity supporting first Royal visit for 30 years
07 January, 2015
Roger attends GREAT Britain Ambassadors’ dinner at Downing Street.
10 November, 2014
An Open Letter to Watchmakers and Collectors
10 July, 2013
The final machine from the George Daniels workshop is moved to the Roger Smith studio
