The Redwood Journal

In-Depth: The Redwood Type B Pilot Watch

In-Depth: The Redwood Type B Pilot Watch

After brutal WWI, European countries began the colossal project of rebuilding and modernizing their armies in the 30s. The German ministry of aviat...

In-Depth: The Redwood A-13 Pilot Watch

In 1964, the Department of Defense published MIL-C-6499, a new military specification for a mechanical aircraft clock. In addition to a high-contra...

In-Depth: The Redwood Recon Pilot Chronographs

In 1946, as battles raged between Chinese nationalist and communist forces, American war-hero Chennault founded Civil Air Transport to airlift supp...

How we keep Redwood affordable

Businesses around the world have tried to convince us that you can only pick two out of these three: QUALITY - PRICE – DESIGN Poorly made impor...

In-Depth: The Redwood Monsoon Watch

In 1964, the MACV-SOG was established to conduct covert warfare operations during the Vietnam War. Ben Baker, head of the CISO, was tasked with sup...

In-Depth: The Redwood Kilroy Watch

From the mid-50s, the US mil-specs for field watches were rapidly modernized. MIL-W-6433/A lead to the A17/A watches with high grade movements, rug...

In-Depth: The Redwood Field v3 Watch

In the 1940s, the A-11 military standard established detailed specifications for a field watch that later became the de facto standard issue timepi...

In-Depth: The Redwood Tactical v3 Watch

In 1952, the French "Nageurs de combat" (combat divers) unit was created by the French military as an elite team of tactical divers. Their missions...

The 3 Biggest Challenges for Redwood

In the watch world, small companies like Redwood (also called micro-brands) have become a popular choice for watch enthusiasts over the last decade...

Built Tough

As a company, we decided early on to build rugged watches because we wanted our customers to have a product that would last for years. By using qua...

Heritage-Inspired

We founded Redwood in 2015 with a mission to create watches inspired by heritage designs. Our goal was always to provide quality watches with the m...

Watch Crystals: Mineral vs. Sapphire

The crystal is the part of the watch that covers the dial and protects it from being damaged. Redwood uses two types of crystals that are commonly ...

Watch Movement 101: Automatic vs. Solar vs. Quartz

The movement is the heart of the watch. It is the mechanism that keeps and displays time on the dial. The movement can be electronic (as in quartz ...