William Wood Valiant
The William Wood Valiant is the third model from the London-based (designed but not manufactured) brand. The Valiant collection is available in numerous different color combos, the one shown here is the Rose Gold, but below you will see pics of the other stainless steel offerings. Bronze cases are also available, but I chose the Rose because it was a little bit different and slightly dressier, but I have to say the standard black dial/red bezel combo has really grown on me after looking at photos of it while doing this review. William Wood has taken a very different approach to create a microbrand, starting off with the name. Usually, the names of brands, especially these days, tend to irk me. Seems everyone is doing someone’s name, but usually they are made up. This one is not. William Wood was in fact a real person, and as you may have guessed just from looking at the watch, he was indeed a firefighter.
Wood is the grandfather of the owner of the brand, Jonny Garrett. He has taken elements of firefighting and incorporated them into the watch dial, the crown, and the strap. We see dive watches, which is what this Valiant is, pilot watches, sports watches of all kinds, comic-inspired watches, and much more, but I can’t remember in recent memory watches inspired by firefighters. Now, this is not a watch specifically built for firefighters; I imagine most of them are wearing G-Shocks, but there are a lot of nice details to commemorate firefighting.
William Wood Valiant Specifications
Swiss Sellita SW200 or Japanese NH35 Automatic movement
Case diameter 41mm
Lug to Lug of 49mm
Case thickness 16mm
Lug width 20mm
Water Resistant 100 metres / 10 ATM
316L Stainless Steel case and metal band
Double domed sapphire crystal glass with anti-reflective coating and blue tint
Rotating bezel with Super-LumiNova 12 dot
Super-LumiNova hands, indices, and bezel 12 dot
Domed dial with date window and sweeping second hand
Crown inset made from original 1920’s British brass firefighters helmet
Deployment clasp buckle on metal band engraved with William Wood logo
The presentation box includes a red travel roll which can hold up to 3 watches, an instructions manual, and a warranty
3-year international warranty from the date watch received
30 day free returns period