The American mechanical wristwatch is not dead.

A small watch company called Chronodeco started be S. Craig Bergsma , builds exclusive high end mechanical wristwatches in a small central Oregon town in the USA.

A metallurgical engineer by profession, Craig took up working on and collecting watches in 1999. Now after 4 years it has become an obsession. He is a self tought watchmaker with the help of over 20 watch and chronograph repair books plus restoration of over 500 vintage watches in the past 4 years. He has sold the majority of his restorations on ebay.

His latest creation called the "Era" uses German and Swiss parts but is assembled in Oregon. The customer has a choice of 3 different dials and 2 types of hands. It uses a very complicated Swiss chronograph movement that can be used as a stop watch as will as time telling. It is wound by the movement of ones wrist. The goal of this latest design was to make a watch in the classic art deco style of the 1930s through the 1950s but have all of the advantages of a modern mechanical wristwatch. This is his 3rd limited edition series of watches and will be limited to only 250 copies. The 1st and 2nd series sold out quickly after an article in International Wristwatch Magazine in 2001.





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