Scottish Watches Podcast #751 : Bark and Jack’s Adrian Barker Explains The Reasons Behind His Green Fifteen Limited Edition Watch

February 9

47 mins

Episode Description

In this episode, we’re joined by Adrian Barker of Bark & Jack for a long-overdue catch-up. Covering everything from creativity, content burnout, and rediscovering the joy of editing, to life changes, travel, and building a brand outside the YouTube algorithm, including having a former Rolls-Royce engineer helping design strap hardware.

The big item of this chat is Adrian’s first limited edition watch with Christopher Ward, the Green Fifteen, and unpack the full eighteen-month journey from initial pitch to public release, including design decisions, lume concoctions, pricing realities, manufacturing constraints, and the reaction from the watch community.

From limited editions to the state of the watch industry, heritage brands such as Zenith and JLC losing visibility, as well as what’s working for others.

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Adrian Barker Adrian is wearing his bluming hot new Christopher Ward x B&J The Green Fifteen

Rikki is wearing our Highlander x Christopher Ward.

Who makes Christopher Ward watches?My Ultimate Tool Watch – The Green Fifteen The Green FifteenThe Christopher Ward C60 Lumiėre ‘Green Fifteen x B&J’ is a collaboration with our friend Adrian Barker of Bark and Jack fame. You can easily guess that this new collaboration is based on the C60 Lumiėre launched in August 2024, and aside from the yellow dial, the limited edition hasn’t seen any collaborations before. The B&J collaboration is a welcome addition to the range. The C60 Lumiėre x B&J retains the 41mm case diameter, Selitta SW300-1 movement, and overall dial architecture of the original watch. The dial is a new, bespoke, matt black with a softened texture, and the baton-style Globolight has been replaced with circular markers. This change alone brings a whole new functional aesthetic to the watch. The sapphire caseback has been replaced with a solid one featuring the Bark and Jack logo.

The Green Fifteen also adds a Bark&Jack logo to the dial, which is only visible under UV light, and it includes a UV torch in the package so you can see it. Nice touch. The Green Fifteen comes from the bezel. The first fifteen minutes are in green Super-Luminova with the remainder of the markings in blue. The minute hand is also in green, with the hour and second hand in blue. At night, these differences really pop and further enhance the “tool watch’ theme.

This is a Bark&Jack collaboration and, as you might expect, the watch is offered with a Bader bracelet and a new two-piece Bark & Jack rubber strap with a textured upper surface and titanium hardware featuring the B&J logo.

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