Bespoke timepieces, engineered around the wrist they’re for.
Handmade-to-order watches and vintage restomods, designed and assembled around the proven Japanese NH automatic movement. One bench. One builder. No two alike.
- Joe Rogan Experience
- The Smoking Tire
- Bob's Watches
- Ticking Time Blonde
- namokimods
We give tired donors a second life.
Send us the vintage piece in the drawer, or let us source the donor. We preserve the soul of the original watch and give it a new home and a new identity, reimagined as a new design: recased in modern, high-spec components around a serviceable NH automatic movement. These tend to be true one-of-ones. The scarcity of the vintage donor and the unique condition of each means no two watches are exactly alike.
This season at the bench
NHL-A07
Limited run
Abyss Professional
$1,050.00 USD200m dress diver — base price plus optional extras
NHL-BLK
Made to order
BLK Carbon Series
$1,050.00 USD200m stealth diver — base price plus optional extras
NHL-CCS
Made to order
Carbon Case Series
$1,050.00 USDForged carbon diver — base price plus optional extras
NHL-PRL
Made to order
Mosaic Pearlmaster
$950.00 USDMosaic mother-of-pearl dial — base price plus optional extras
NHL-SKTL
Made to order
SAM SKTL Series
$900.00 USDBold angular case, bold colours — base price plus optional extras
From conversation to wrist
Consultation
We start with a conversation, reference photos, wrist size, the story you want on your wrist.
Design details
A part-by-part itemized quote is sent for approval before parts are sourced.
Build & regulate
Hand assembled, precision regulated and real-world timed, tested and calibrated for accuracy, with three-stage water-resistance testing.
QC & delivery
Final QC, photography, microscope inspection and packaging with tools and spares. Fully insured worldwide express shipping.
Hacking seconds
Hand-winding
24-jewel auto
Proven mechanics. Obsessive finishing.
Every NHorology Lab watch is built on the proven TMI NH family of 24-jewel automatic movements, the most serviced, most reliable workhorse in independent horology. Each one is individually calibrated and precision-regulated by our hands for added precision over factory specs, and customized to order with decorated rotors, movement bridges and custom day/date discs. We don’t chase novelty for its own sake: we start from something that will still be running, or replaceable, in thirty years, then spend our hours where they’re felt most: the dial, the case, the way it wears.
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Individually calibratedPrecision timegrapher calibrated · optional movement decoration and sapphire caseback.
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3-step water-resistance testingWet pressure tested, ultrasonic tested and condensation tested. Water resistance is specified per build: 100m for the standard Carbon Case; 200m for the other listed watch builds.
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Durable materialsAR or dual-AR coated sapphire crystals. Sapphire, ceramic, steel and carbon bezel options. Watches are meant to be used and abused.
Custom work, seen up close.
Collector quotes, watch features and a podcast mention.
Matt Farah
Matt Farah gives an in-depth look at his NHorology custom.
Ticking Time Blonde
A bespoke NHorology Lab restomod in collector Flip's three-watch collection.
Joe Rogan Experience
Joe discusses his custom meteorite-dial watch on JRE #1819.
The Smoking Tire
“There are many copies of this watch, but this is the one and only original.”
More coverage & collaborations (3)
namokimods
“Known for his beautiful restomods, gold builds, and “improved OEM” works.”
The Smoking Tire
“The best Tahitian Black Pearl I've got — custom made 1 of 1 by @nhorology_lab.”
namokimods
Black and Red SMSTR with a Sakura dial and lumed insert.
The best build is the one that doesn’t exist yet.
Team runs, retirement pieces and his-and-hers gift sets, a speciality of the bench. Bring a reference, a colour, a feeling; we design from a blank dial.