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Fears is closing the Jump Hour, and you have a week
The Brunswick 40.5 Jump Hour Ultimus is on sale from 10 to 17 August only. Sapphire dial with a glowing ceramic centre, and Christopher Ward's JJ01 module underneath.
Hen & Mills Editorial · 3 min read · 9 August 2026
Fears is killing off the Jump Hour, and you've got a week. The Brunswick 40.5 Jump Hour Ultimus goes on sale on 10 August and the order window slams shut at 23:59 BST on 17 August. After that, it's gone.
Nothing's capped at a number of pieces. The limit is the calendar, which is more honest than picking a round number and pretending it was always the plan.
A Christopher Ward module inside a Fears
The jumping hour runs on Christopher Ward's JJ01 module sitting on a Sellita SW200 base. Two British brands at very different prices sharing a complication module is the sort of thing that would've been quietly buried a decade ago. Fears just lists it. Christopher Ward built the module, Fears hand-builds the watch in England, and both facts can be true without either being embarrassing.
The base is a Sellita SW200, so the servicing story is ordinary even if the display is not. A jumping hour built on something exotic becomes your watchmaker's problem in fifteen years. This one won't.
The middle of the dial is ceramic and it lights up
The dial is called Phantom White and it is sapphire, with a luminous ceramic centre. In the dark the whole middle of the watch lights up and the hour aperture and minute track go dark against it. Most lume is applied to markers. This is lume used as the dial itself, which is a different effect and not one you can judge from a packshot.
A cushion case drawn from a 1924 watch in the archive
The Brunswick case is 40.5mm of 316L stainless steel, cushion-shaped, brushed and polished, on 20mm lugs, with 100 metres of water resistance. Fears takes the silhouette from a gentleman's cushion case watch it made in 1924 and says the case carries no flat surfaces anywhere. The strap is handmade Obsidian Black Epsom leather; the bracelet is a five-link with screw links and a butterfly clasp.
Fears also says the case is machined to a standard it describes as usually reserved for precious metals. That claim is about the machining and the operator, and a cushion case is where you would notice if it were not true, because every curve has to meet another curve. The crown is a bespoke onion.
These are hand-built in small batches, as all Fears watches are, and production is not capped at a number. Only the ordering is.
Seven thousand one hundred pounds, and November at the earliest
It's 7,100 pounds on the strap and 7,500 with the bracelet as well. Watches ship in the order they're bought, the first batch from November and later ones from January. There's no Australian price, and at this money the exchange rate and the wait are both part of the decision.
The Ultimus was made with Andrew Morgan. If a jumping hour in a cushion case is something you've been circling, the deadline is real and it's next week.
