Hey all,

This year I have been very proud to bring the entire Christopher Ward collection to so many watch communities all across the US & Canada and throughout my watch career RedBar Group has always been so important to how I communicate our brand message to their members and so, to start 2025 I am heading over to the UK to join my colleagues in a very ambitious six city Redbar UK tour to start the year off the right way!!

I’ll post individual notes about each Redbar chapter in the coming days but please follow the chapter on instagram that is closest to where you live, they can let you know how you can become a member (which you definitely should) and once you are a member they will give you all the details about the event such as location, time etc but for now, this is where I’m heading to and I truly hope that we get to see a lot of you when I’m home ….

Jan 8th - @redbarsoutheast
Jan 9th - @redbarbristol
Jan 10th - @redbarmcr
Jan 11th - @redbarglasgow
Jan 16th - @redbar.leeds
Jan 17th - @redbarlondon

Thank you so much

Mike

^^^^ Is it going to be SouthEast or London for me.

I'll have to investigate.

Guy

Looks like the usual big hole in the central/eastern part of England. Unless the South-East one ventures north of London?

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:08 am Looks like the usual big hole in the central/eastern part of England. Unless the South-East one ventures north of London?

Steve, it's interesting that you should make this observation. @MikePearson55 's original post had me surfing the net last night trying to find out about Redbar: the usual first beginner questions like who, what and where. In the end the lack of public domain information which a google search could find caused me to give up.

@tikkathree
It doesn’t bother me too much, Pete. Apart from the Admin Team’s visit to Maidenhead last year, I haven’t travelled to meet up with people and talk about watches since before Covid.

Guess what? I haven’t missed it either.

I did find a record of a meeting for the South-East chapter and it was in…yep, you got it…London!

@Amor Vincit Omnia
Steve when you say usual big hole in the central/eastern part of England, do you mean…

That your local Redbar chapter isn’t one of those chosen for Mike P’s tour, or that there isn’t a local chapter in your neck of the woods?

Neil

@nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:23 am @nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

For the East Anglian chapters you have to search for Redbarr-ooh-arr-ooh-arr.

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:08 am Looks like the usual big hole in the central/eastern part of England. Unless the South-East one ventures north of London?

Morning

There are no Redbar groups in the Midlands or Liverpool area but I’m hoping to have more info next week for an event for Forum and CW collectors. This is stage one of more events that are not in the usual geographical areas.

Thanks so much

Mike

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:23 am @nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

Best place for Redbar info has always been Instagram but once you find a club they use email, text etc

Happy to help if you have questions.

Thank you

Mike

Is there anything in Norfolk to attend? A group anywhere? Id love to get involved - I'm new here, hi folks

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:23 am @nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

Norwich would be amazing!

timepieces_and_bags wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:10 am

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:23 am @nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

For the East Anglian chapters you have to search for Redbarr-ooh-arr-ooh-arr.

Bootiful.

timepieces_and_bags wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:10 am

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:23 am @nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

For the East Anglian chapters you have to search for Redbarr-ooh-arr-ooh-arr.

MikePearson55 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 1:40 pm
Best place for Redbar info has always been Instagram but once you find a club they use email, text etc

Thanks for the heads up, Mike, but I don’t use Instagram.

timepieces_and_bags wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:10 am

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:23 am @nbg

Possibly either, or neither, or both, Neil. As Pete says, it seems very hard to track down any actual information about the local chapters in the UK.

I couldn’t see anything in Birmingham for example, or in Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge and so on, all of which would be easier for me.

For the East Anglian chapters you have to search for Redbarr-ooh-arr-ooh-arr.

Redbar buh: whatever are you loike?

I went into instagrim and found redbarcambridge which I've attempted to join: I'll keep you posted. Scrolling through the images I fear that activity since 2023 might have been a bit low-key.