Roger W. Smith

Series 2 George Daniels chose Smith as his collaborator on the Millennium watches, a period Smith later called the finest finishing school he could have wished for. The Series 2 that followed was the first production movement designed around Daniels' original co-axial escapement, made on the Isle of Man by a firm that began in 2001 in a converted bedroom of Smith's cottage in Ballaugh; 60 were made between 2007 and 2019. Smith later designed a single-wheel version of the co-axial escapement. This is the watch that shows the Daniels approach carried forward rather than merely preserved.