Festival, now, hour.
Hagora was founded in Bristol by Isaac Ben-Akiva to make celebration editions for people who love watches. The name joins three words: chag, Hebrew for festival; agora, Portuguese for now; and hora, the hour.
The ring in our logo is the notched O. Its gold marker sits at twelve and stands for the moment each edition marks. You will find it on the crown of every watch.
Two lines, one workshop
Editions are numbered watches that mark a moment. Each edition celebrates a place, a pastime or an occasion, is made in 99 numbered pieces, and is never remade. The theme has to earn its place through the watch itself: a complication or a dial that only makes sense for this subject, and one hidden detail that only the owner finds. Editions use Swiss movements and layered, hand-finished dials. The first edition is Uma Estrela, from the Still of the Night series.
Hagora Workshop is a separate line of our own original designs, hand-assembled and regulated in Bristol on Japanese automatic and meca-quartz movements. Workshop watches are not numbered editions. They are the watches we wear every day, built one at a time, with a sapphire crystal and a 316L steel case built for the job.
Designed and assembled in Bristol
Every watch is inspected in Bristol before it ships: timekeeping, water resistance, dial alignment, lume and caseback engraving. We reply to every message within two working days.