I’ve always loved working with my hands—tinkering, learning, and creating—and I’ve always loved a well-designed watch. But collecting watches has never been more than a hobby—at least until 2020. I work in healthcare, and it was the height of the pandemic, so I was feeling stressed by all the uncertainties regarding the virus. To give myself a distraction, I started taking apart a few of the watches I’d collected over the years. I wanted to see how they worked. Wanted to see if I could put them back together. I kept going down to my basement, disassembling and reassembling the mechanical movements, coming to understand the various functions, until it was clear that my watches had become more than just a distraction; they’d turned into a passion. 

I decided to make my own watch, but I wanted it to be different from all the other watches I’d owned. It would be a gift to my father, an engineer who’s always innovated, who’s never settled for what’s already been done. But as I set out to source my components, I couldn’t find what I was looking for. What was out there felt familiar, homages to timepieces that I’d seen before, maybe even worn before.

I worked with what I could find, and by the time the watch was fully assembled, I had learned how to make my own timepiece—and I had given my father the gift I’d set out to make—this watch, although unique in its own way, created a desire to create something truly different.

Over the next year, I spent my off-hours designing and re-designing different dials, hand-sets, and cases, dreaming a new watch into being. I named the company after my grandfathers (Richard and Harvey) and built a watch that would make them proud. Richard-Harvey’s first model is called The Attitude, and it’s unlike any watch that’s ever come before it. Both Richard and Harvey were military veterans—true patriots of this amazing county they called home.

The Attitude comes in two variants, in honor of these two incredible men, The Patriot, and The Blackout. One incorporates the red, white, and blue of our nation’s flag—symbolizing their patriotism—while the other has a dark, monochromatic & tactical exterior­­—representing our military service.