The "Ancyent Marinere" Wristwatch....    

"I wake to the infernal poundings unnoticed by most, these soundings.

I have cursed her, avoided her and have hated her ways.  "Try to tame me!" is what she prays.  The sea is what she is and "Let me be" is what she says."

The above is not taken from the "Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge, but it does have something to do with the sea.

I just received the "Ancyent Marinere" wristwatch by d.freemont and it does have something to do with the poem.

Let me describe it first.

The box it arrives in is a blond, perhaps teak, wood with an inlaid sleeve of green suede.  Embroidered on it is the silhouette of an albatross just above the also embroidered coordinates of 05N/95W.  All of this is very nicely done.

The watch is about 38mm in diameter with a thick flat sapphire.  The bezel is etched in a way that represents the drama and turbulence of the sea .the  

As noted in the brochure describing the watch the d.freemont says that the most pointed connection (here he’s talking about the connection to the poem) is the inscription inside the back crystal: “ Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to leak .”  ( this is a variation of one of the most known lines in the poem.)   

This watch is water resistant to 330ft. with a screw down crown that has been engineered by d.freemont 

The dial is luminescent and its glow can act as a beacon to all the ships at sea. At the center of the dial is a silver “disc” with the words “Ancyent Marinere.” 

The numerals are large and are black-green in color like the South Atlantic waters.  (I like the black-green color.  Depending on the light available, the numbers could be blue, black or green.  Very interesting choice of color.) 

The location of “12” is a “compass like” marking as are the three, six, and nine. 

If you look, you will see a silhouette of the albatross placed at “one o’clock” near the aspect of the sextant reading for the equator. 

The above noted location of 05N/95W, which is the watch’s reference number, is engraved on the back bezel. 

This watch is beautiful.  It has a quality about it and a story about it that demands that you own one.  It is probably the best quality watch for the price that I have seen for a long time, and it’s a numbered watch.  The watch I have is number 073. 

You can own this watch for $450.  Yes $450.  As you know, I rarely put the price of a watch in an editorial, or in the magazine for that matter, but to get this watch for under $1000 is remarkable enough.  And, at a $450 price, it is a steal.  If I were d.freemont, I would increase the price of this numbered watch to somewhere near $1000. 

“He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.” 

Last four lines of :
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”                                               Back to Order
by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Call David McCready at 1.877.236.9248
He wrote this watch. ---------Urich