ARES 2026 Founder Build Experience Choose Your Build Experience:November 11-13 Veteran's Day

ARES 2026 Founder Build Experience Choose Your Build Experience:November 11-13 Veteran's DayRemember when you used to make things? We never stopped. Most people buy a watch. Almost nobody builds one. The ARES Founder Build Experience is the only place in American watchmaking where you can cut your own steel, finish your own case, personalize your own dial, assemble your own movement, engrave your own case back, and walk out wearing the Mission Timer you made. Because a watch you build isnt just a watch. Its proof you were here. Its evidence

supplied with a 3-ring LASH ballistic nylon strap

including perlage & finishing

Deep red with a faded & worn logo

these are our original 22mm custom manufactured and branded 3-buckle LASH straps in our custom BAWIDAMANN Desert Rat Tiger Stripe

Because a watch you build isn’t just a watch

Full payment required at booking

Friday – Machining the Heart of Your Timer

and real production happens every day

it's printed on a vintage tri-blend

clear coat finish

fellowship

wearing the Mission Timer you built with your own hands