Custom Resco

A uniform patrol Sergeant. He is up front that this is not a story about the photo. It is about the watch. Around 2016 he had been eyeing Resco for a while and told a buddy in law enforcement about them. That buddy met the founder at a convention, got hands on the watches, and called him immediately: dude, we need to get one. Resco was still a small operation then, and said they would build the two of them a custom watch. Different face, hand, and bezel configurations went back and forth in photos until this was the one. They both ordered it, and in his words, they both still consider their Rescos an expensive friendship bracelet of sorts. Since then it has been his patrol watch. If he is in uniform, it is on his wrist. Countless fights, chases, and crime scenes. It has timed the hours of boredom and the moments of terror. Like him, it carries all of those experiences. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

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built in Coronado, by one of their own Resco Instruments is about as direct a line as exists between the work and the watch. The company was founded by R.E. Smith, a retired Navy SEAL with 22 years and nine deployments behind him, and the first watches were built in his garage in Coronado, California. The design that started it all was sketched on MRE packaging during a 2006 deployment. Every Resco is still designed, assembled, and tested in Coronado. That small-shop scale is exactly what made this Sergeant's watch possible. A big brand does not send two patrol cops photo mockups of dial, hand, and bezel combinations until the watch is theirs. A veteran-owned shop still building them by hand does. Two friends, one configuration, a decade of patrol shifts. That is the kind of provenance no catalog can print.

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