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Fears gives the Brunswick 39 a perpetual calendar

The Bristol firm’s first modern high complication stays just 10.1mm thick and carries an automatic calendar good to 2100.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 29 August 2026

• Fears’ most complicated watch to date places a full perpetual calendar and moon phase in a 39mm Brunswick without enlarging its familiar cushion case.
• The automatic Dubois Depraz 55115 runs for 47 hours and needs no calendar correction until 2100 when kept running continuously.
• Australian list price is A$51,000 including tax, with individually numbered watches due to begin shipping from late October 2026 onwards.

Fears has put a perpetual calendar into its cushion case without turning the watch into a slab. It measures 39mm across, 37mm from top to bottom and 10.1mm including the domed sapphire crystal. It is the most complicated watch Fears has made, and the restrained Silver Mink dial makes the leap look more natural than the specification suggests. The dimensions contain that change within the familiar outline of the Fears Brunswick 39 Perpetual Calendar.

The dial is coated in pure silver and given a lightly frosted finish. Three recessed registers carry the day, date, month and leap-year cycle, with the moon phase placed at six. Black printing and black-gold hands keep the calendar legible, while applied indices and the main hands are diamond cut. Cyan accents are used sparingly around the indications. There is a lot to read, but no decorative flourish has been asked to do the work of a label.

A calendar that fits the Brunswick

The proportions deserve attention because perpetual calendars are often built around the movement first. Fears has used a new Brunswick case architecture with flat brushed flanks, broad polished bevels and concave profiles on both the bezel and caseback. The case is machined from 316L stainless steel and measures 45.4mm lug to lug. Four discreet correctors sit in the case band, one for each calendar adjustment, giving the complication its controls without adding large pushers to the profile.

The movement is the automatic Dubois Depraz 55115, made for Fears and visible beneath an exhibition back. It records the day, date, month and leap-year cycle, and accounts for months of different lengths. Once correctly set and kept running, the calendar needs no correction until 2100. The moon-phase display follows a 29.5-day cycle. A solid 18-carat gold rotor carries the Bristol flower and Fears cypher, while the bridges receive polished bevels, frosting and an anthracite coating.

Power reserve is 47 hours. That is enough for a night off the wrist, though it is less forgiving across a long weekend than many contemporary automatics. Fears supplies a SwissKubik winder set up for the watch, along with a corrector pin and setting instructions. Those accessories are practical here: restarting a stopped perpetual calendar means advancing several linked indications instead of merely moving two hands. The winder reduces the chance of that reset becoming routine.

Silver, black gold and walnut

The Silver Mink treatment gives the dial a warmer cast than white lacquer. Each subdial is sunk and grooved, and the lettering and numerals were drawn for this reference. The applied indices are milled from brass, polished and coated in 18-carat black gold. The same dark finish appears on the calendar pointers, setting them apart from the polished hour and minute hands without adding another colour. Cyan accents mark selected indications without becoming a second dominant palette.

Fears fits a walnut-brown matte ostrich strap lined in blue Alcantara, and the 20mm lug width leaves other straps open. Water resistance is 50 metres, appropriate for an elaborate dress watch but a reminder that the cushion shape does not make it a sports model. The concave caseback reduces visual mass at the edge and lets the centre sit into the wrist, while the wide upper bevels retain the familiar Brunswick outline.

Fears has also kept the onion-shaped crown proportionate instead of enlarging it to match the complication. The case shape comes from a 1924 watch in the archive, while Fears describes the new model as the first automatic perpetual-calendar wristwatch from a British brand in modern times. It is also the first modern Fears with a moon phase and sits within the Eminence Collection, the firm's designation for watches with hand-finished movements.

Fears Brunswick 39 Perpetual Calendar pricing and availability

Fears lists the Brunswick 39 Perpetual Calendar at A$51,000 including tax or A$42,500 excluding tax. The British price is £26,950 including VAT or £22,458.33 excluding VAT, while the United States storefront shows US$34,200 including tax or US$28,500 excluding tax. Shipping is due to begin in late October 2026. Each watch is individually numbered, but Fears has not described the production run as a fixed limited edition on its regional storefronts.

The included winder belongs in the value calculation because it helps preserve the calendar setting through periods off the wrist. For a watch built around avoiding manual correction until 2100, supplying the equipment needed to keep it running is a coherent part of the package. The 47-hour reserve still asks the owner to use that equipment across a long weekend, but the slim case, legible calendar and practical included setting accessories make the complication feel integrated rather than appended.