Luxury watches brand Dent & Co. has released a new watch named the Dent Denison. Dent & Co. is the same company that made the world-famous Big Ben clock and as such the firm has a long-standing reputation for classic British design. Although it’s true that there has been a renewed trend recently for classic simplicity, both in watches and more broadly ,…
Dent & Co. has been saved, and those of us in both the United States and the United Kingdom should be grateful. We have the British cultural Renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s to thank for this. Whether it was Margaret Thatcher, the Falkland Islands War, or the eventual defeat of Soviet-style communism, something helped unleash the British psyche upon…
It’s always nice to see a company make a comeback, to be reinvented in the modern era. To a large extent, Dent’s fortunes as an English company seemed to vary directly with the British Empire. Thus, the 1830’s and 1840’s bore witness to Dent’s seemingly ubiquitous presence. What’s widely regarded as the Second British Empire rose from the ashes of…