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Brand profile
TID Watches
Stockholm watch brand founded in 2012, making minimal numbered quartz watches with sandblasted steel cases and interchangeable leather, textile and mesh straps.
StockholmOrigin
UnisexFocus
Minimalist / ContemporaryStyle
$$Price
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What to know about TID Watches
Design studio, not watchmaking house
Founded in 2012 by Ola E. Bernestal and Petrus Palmer with Form Us With Love designers Jonas Pettersson and John Lofgren, so the logic is industrial design first.
A numbered range, deliberately small
The catalogue stays reductive: quartz models called No.1, No.2 and No.3 in sandblasted stainless steel with pared-back dials rather than seasonal releases.
Straps do the styling work
Cases are interchangeable with leather, woven textile and steel mesh straps, so one watch shifts register instead of you buying several.
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Brand facts
TID Watches is a Stockholm watch brand founded in 2012 by Ola E. Bernestal, Petrus Palmer and Form Us With Love designers Jonas Pettersson and John Lofgren; "tid" is Swedish for time. The range stays small and reductive: numbered quartz models such as No.1, No.2 and No.3 in sandblasted stainless steel, with pared-back dials and interchangeable straps in leather, woven textile and steel mesh. It sells direct online and through Scandinavian design retailers, applying the same minimal language to clocks and accessories.
- Founded
- 2012
- Origin
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Made in
- Sweden
- Price
- $$
- Focus
- Unisex
- Facts checked
- August 2026
- Styles
- Minimalist / Contemporary, Quiet luxury