William Wood are a watchmaker synonymous with the fire fighting industry which is why their watches make great gifts for fightfighers and their latest offering – the visually vibrant Fire Watch – might just be one of their best watches to date in our opinion here at Coolector HQ. If you like your timepieces to pack a visual punch, this is definitely going to be ticking all the right boxes and it is made with top-quality components to ensure it will be your go-to watch for many years to come.

Priced at £995, the William Wood Fire Watch is a first-class entry-level luxury watch and we’re loving just how striking the dial is and this is unquestionably the sort of timepiece that will turn heads everywhere you go. This is a stainless steel automatic diving watch that has been cleverly designed so as to look like it is on fire. With a three-layered metallic orange flame dial, stainless steel orange marker bezel, and solid lume flammable symbol caseback, it is fair to say that it is offerings like this that ensure that William Wood are considered one of the UK’s best watch brands.

Forming part of the brand’s Fire Extinguisher Collection, the Fire Watch has a melted-down 100-year-old British brass firefighter’s helmet, once worn by firefighters in the 1920’s within the timepiece itself and it is this sort of design flourish and attention to detail that really sets William Wood Watches apart from the competition. The helmet is set inside the watch crown and is stamped with the brand’s iconic logo.

Eye-catching details abound with the Fire Watch from William Wood and some of the stand ones include a brushed case, stainless steel rotating bezel, laser engraved caseback ring and closed lume caseback, double domed sapphire crystal glass finished with a medium blue tint and double-sided anti-reflective coating, Super-LumiNova sub-layer, 3 pm date window, polished hands and fire bell chime-inspired seconds marker and a 100m water resistance.

The Fire Watch has one final feature that really catches the eye in the shape of its caseback. For this release, William Wood Watches has come up with a closed, stainless steel caseback and embossed the steel with the universally recognisable symbol for “highly flammable”. This symbol has been coated in lume so when it is exposed to natural light it will illuminate in low-light conditions and this adds a great finishing touch to the visual vibrancy of this exceptional offering from William Wood. After the ultimate firefighter gift? Look no further.