Introducing: The Bradley Taylor Ardea

The 475RS offers hours, minutes, and a retrograde seconds display at six o’clock. The retrograde seconds can easily be mistaken for a power reserve or even a retrograde date, until you notice how quickly it sweeps. Perhaps unsurprisingly, at this point in the story, Taylor designed and created the retrograde seconds mechanism, which is an integrated part of the 475RS’s design, not a module. Taylor ran the mechanism for a year before release, logging 1,440 reset cycles per day, to confirm that wear on the contact surfaces was negligible over the long term. The watch’s name comes from Ardea, Latin for heron, the birds that hunt on the Seymour River outside his workshop, snapping their prey out of the water.