Recently, Roth has teamed with master engraver Todd Daniels to create
detailed pattern work on cases and dials.
A professional goldsmith and jeweler for three decades, Daniels was so
impressed with Roth’s watch designs that, unprompted, he suggested the pair
collaborate, and Roth agreed. Roth says hand engraving has always been a
special skill for which he has great respect. He considers Daniels one of the
fi nest engravers he has ever met.
“For an accomplished engraver, silver or gold or even gun steels are all rela-
tively easy work with, but not when compared to stainless steel,” Roth says. “It
takes a true master engraver to work in the high surgical-grade stainless steel
in which our watches are milled.”
TONNEAU CASES
Among the newest Roth-Daniels collaborations is one model within the HH5
Tonneau collection. The HH5 Tonneau is a 43-millimeter-wide watch with
a stainless-steel case coated with AlTiN. In addition to the Daniels-engraved
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version, other HH5 Tonneau models include one with a case of Damascus
steel and another with a polished black steel case. All feature a decorated
18-karat rose-gold dial that Roth engraves in-house on a vintage rose engine
lathe. Those familiar with Roth’ s earlier work will recognize the HH5’s charac-
teristic large almond shaped blued-steel hands and markers, each lume-tinted.
Each HH5 Tonneau also features a domed synthetic sapphire front crystal
with anti-glare coating and synthetic sapphire display back is echoed in
the steel-core, triple-seal crown, fi nished with solid 18-karat rose gold and
surrounds a signature ruby outer and natural blue sapphire center. The deco-
rated automatic ETA 2892 movement is topped with a solid tungsten rotor
with PVD-process AlTiN coating embellished with the Geoff rey Roth logo.
These 100-meter water-resistant watches come on an American-made
hand-stitched, farm-raised Louisiana alligator strap with a double-deployant
stainless-steel clasp. There are several HH5 models available. Prices: $9,500
(polished black steel), $12,500 (Damascus steel) and $24,000 (Daniels-
engraved steel).