72% matchTimex
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What changes: Mass-market scale and heritage reissues rather than studio-designed small runs
Brand profile
Instrmnt
Glasgow design studio making minimal Swiss-movement watches, umbrellas and homeware in an industrial, instrumentation-derived style.
GlasgowOrigin
MenswearFocus
Minimalist / ContemporaryStyle
$$Price
What to know about Instrmnt
Instrmnt Applied Design (I-AD) is a Glasgow studio founded by Pete Sunderland and Ross Baynham, working in a stripped-back industrial idiom drawn from mid-century instrumentation. It debuted with the Kickstarter-funded Instrmnt 01 watch and now builds Swiss quartz and mechanical pieces, including a simplified dive watch with unidirectional bezel, sapphire caseback and Luminova markings, plus the monochrome K Series on Italian vegan rubber straps. The range extends to Glasgow-assembled umbrellas in Japanese fabric and cast homeware trays. Work has been shown at the V&A and London Design Festival.
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Brand facts
- Founded
- 2013
- Origin
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Made in
- Europe
- Price
- $$
- Focus
- Menswear
- Styles
- Minimalist / Contemporary, Workwear / Heritage