Testing times lay ahead for Tilly, often hard to endure and even bringing her the undeserved taint of being suspected of witchcraft. Tall for her age and coltish, she is not afraid of taking on "man's work" to help out the grandparents who raised her in a cottage at the edge of the Sop with Estate, only a few miles from the bustling Tyneside towns of County Durham. But this was 1913, and anything beyond the most formal relationship between servant and mistress had to face the barriers and injustices of a rigid social hierarchy that was soon to perish in the flames of war.Ĭoming up sixteen, Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. The time came when a sudden and dramatic turn in Robert's affairs brought him a much closer involvement with the Thormans of Foreshaw, and especially with the elder daughter Agnes who shouldered so many of the burdens of this troubled household and who alone of all her family loved and protected the frail unworldly Millie.
At a friendly wayside inn he heard talk about Foreshaw Park, the sadly run-down estate of the once wealthy Thorman family, and walking home in the moonlight he had his first strange encounter with Millie, the ethereal girl-child of that house whose odd ways and nocturnal wanderings had led to her being known locally as 'Thorman's Moth'. Life with domineering Uncle John and his family did not always prove easy, however, and on Sunday Robert was glad to set off alone exploring the Durham countryside. That’s why the titanium case back has a sapphire crystal glass window to frame the Calibre 400. With an objective to bring watchmaking closer to the customer, this timepiece boasts passion both on the outside and on the inside.Robert Bradley, a young man of independent mind and spirit, gave up his job in the Jarrow shipyards to work at his uncle's old-established carpenter's shop in a small village. With the movement being such an important part of the watch, it’s a no brainer that it must be on display. Keeping an eye on timeĪnd then there’s the view from the other side. With a power reserve of up to five days, it certainly boasts class-leading reliability. So much so that it is chronometer certified, even after it’s been exposed to the sort of magnetic fields we’re surrounded by every day. Crafted entirely in-house, this movement is precisely accurate. The beating heart of the watch (and arguably one of the main features of this new timepiece), the Calibre 400 movement is one of the brand’s new generations of high-performance automatics. So, what lies beneath the dial? A mechanical wonderĪs we’ve already mentioned, the ProPilot X Calibre 400 follows in a long line of Oris pilot’s watches which date back to the early 1900s - but its power lies beyond its associations. An expressive palette of grey, blue, and salmon bring life and colour to your wrist, and definitely create a fresh feel about the watches - our favourite has to be the salmon.
We’ve seen colourful dials take the watch world by storm and with our Head of Luxury Brands, Bruce, predicting more hues working their way in, and we can confirm he was right.
But the dial colours are what catch our eye.
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