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PÉGOUD WATCHES

The Pégoud watch collection pays homage to the famous French aviator Adolphe Pégoud.

The early 1900s and the advent of aviation heralded a new type of timepiece. Fashioned from pocket watches, adorned with art-deco numerals and housing cathedral style hands, these timepieces took on an aesthetic and language of pilot watch design that is still honoured and coveted today. Pegoud watches echo this era, framing well made timepieces through the modern disciplines of contemporary horology.

ADOLPHE CÉLESTIN

Adolphe Célestin Pégoud (13 June 1889 - 31 August 1915) was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace during World War I. A noted aviator prior to the war, Pégoud was the first pilot to successfully parachute out of an airplane and rumoured to be the first to execute a daring 'Loop The Loop,' for which he gained worldwide fame.

During World War I, Pégoud took to the skies with great success. He was the first fighter ace to take down 6 enemy aircraft before eventually succumbing to a German pilot that he himself had trained. Pégoud's exploits, daring, heroism and charm framed him as an icon of the time. He created an excitement and intrigue for the nascent but daring world of military aviation.