GILBERT COLLECTION
Release No3

We are proud and excited to introduce our latest collection of watches dedicated to our master watchmaker, Gilbert O. Gudjonsson, who has over 50 years of experience in the field of watchmaking. We have named this collection: Gilbert "Vintage Watch Collection" in his honour. Today we introduce the third and final model in this three watch series.

We now proudly present the Gilbert Dictator. The Dictator dial has a cream and black finish, vintage Arabic numerals with Old Radium Super-LumiNova. Rhodium plated hour and minute hands with Old Radium Super-LumiNova and red second hand.

With its attractive black and cream dial, red second hand and Arabic numerals, the Dictator is daring but well balanced, the watch is available with a selection of leather straps or a stainless steel Milanese bracelet.

It has a Swiss made mechanical movement “Execution Top” with automatic winding, 25 jewels, custom decorations, blue screws and has a rhodium plated finish. All of which can be examined in detail through a sapphire crystal case back. All decorations and craftsmanship are of the highest quality.  

Meet the full Gilbert “Vintage Watch Collection”

Gilbert started apprenticing as a watchmaker at the tender age of 16 and soon discovered a real passion for the craft, often choosing to skip summer holidays and work long night and weekend hours in order to hone his skills. His passion for restoring timepieces to the highest level began early and soon he became an expert in the repair and restoration of vintage watches. 

Gilbert’s passion for vintage watches has never faded. He especially loves the look and style of wristwatches from the 1950's and 60’s and it’s from this enthusiasm that we draw inspiration for this collection. Wristwatches of that era were elegant and simple with a focus on one essential objective: an easy-to-read time. In those days everyone wore a watch, there was no other way to know the time.

The name of each watch is drawn from the story of the Dog Day King.

Adventurer: Jörgen Jörgensen was known as Jörundur hundadagakonungur, the Dog  Day King, and for one summer in 1809, he was The King of Iceland. He was an adventurer known for his high-spirits, diverse talents, excessive passions and ambitions, and considerable amorality.

Liberator: In 1809, with a winning blend of optimistic naivety and megalomania, Jörgensen staged the most charmingly farcical revolution ever and declared Iceland independent of Denmark, naming himself liberator, sole ruler and protector of Iceland.

Dictator: Jörgen managed to rustle up a small army. A very small army. It consisted of a few inmates of Reykjavík prison (in a sort of parody of the storming of the Bastille, Jörgensen had released the prisoners) and two bored farmers who apparently had nothing else on, bringing him up to a grand total of eight. Of course the end of this Dictatorship, if so it can be called, was inevitable. Another British ship came to Hafnarfjörður two months after Jörgensen had seized power, and took the whole mess back to Britain to sort things out.