AMERICAN MISSION TIMERS
Your life is your mission.
Overbuilt for overland and underwater. Unapologetically American. Each Mission Timer is built by hand in the Pacific Northwest.
Shop the Mission Timers Our StoryTHE ARES PROMISE
WHY ARES
Everything you own was built for you. Why not your watch?
- Your truck was built to your order.
- Your carbine was built to your spec.
- Your clubs were hand-selected.
- Your home was designed around your life.
Then you bought your watch off a glass shelf in a mall — the same one a million other people buy. We build the other kind: custom-made, to your spec, serialized to you, guaranteed for life. Not assembled overseas and then badged American. Not mass-produced by a brand too big to know your name. Built by hand, here, by five people, for you alone.
This one's yours.
Build Yours
THIS MONTH'S LIMITED EDITION DROP
CARR DIVER-1 AUTOMATIC
Lands in
The drop is live
Monthly drops are limited and built to order. When the clock hits zero, it's first-come.
- Made in USA Built by hand in the PNW
- Individually Serialized Engraved & registered to you
- Guaranteed for Life Serviced in-house, forever
- Swiss Movement ETA, regulated by hand
THE LINEUP
Choose your platform.
AMERICAN STEEL · AMERICAN HEART · SWISS PRECISION
Built by hand in America.
Every ARES Mission Timer is designed, machined, assembled, certified, and serviced by hand in the Pacific Northwest by a five-person team of U.S.-based artisans.
We build in limited batches — most timers are made to order, individually serialized, and guaranteed for life. This isn't a stock item. It's a purpose-built instrument, engineered for a lifetime of hard use.
GUARANTEED FOR LIFE
An armory for watches.
Your Mission Timer isn't built to sit in a drawer. It's built to be worn hard, sent home for service, and put back into the fight. That's the deal — for life.
- Buy It Built by hand and serialized to you alone.
- SCAR It 1000M-rated. Overbuilt for a lifetime of hard use.
- Send It In In-house service by the team that built it.
- Scar It Again Back on your wrist and into the mix. Repeat for life.
Buy it. Scar it. Send it in. Go put scars on it again.
How Service WorksFROM THE BENCH
The ARES Journal
Build logs, teardowns, and field notes from the people machining and assembling your Mission Timer by hand.
Aug 12, 2025
The Liberty & Independence Project
Swiss Engine. American Frame. Mission Ready. The 39% tariff doesn’t apply to us—because we were never dependent in the first place. Whether...
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Apr 30, 2025
Earn Your Place Every Day
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. — Theodore Roosevelt When people talk about...
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Apr 21, 2025
Welcome to the Work
I shall pass this way but once. Any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any...
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A FAMILY-BUILT AMERICAN BRAND
If you could wake up tomorrow and be anything, what would it be? I'd make watches.
Before ARES, our founder spent his whole career in service — police officer, Federal Air Marshal, and the CIA. A life built on precision, integrity, and grit. When it ended, his wife asked what was next. The answer was a workbench.
Today ARES is a small, family-built American company. Every Mission Timer is made by hand by a five-person team that treats your watch like it carries our name — because it does. ARES is a tool. We're honored to keep time for you.
PROUD TO BUILD WITH
ARES Watch Company is an independent American manufacturer. We're honored to collaborate with brands we respect — these partnerships are collaborations, not ownership.
- Jack Carr
- Montana Knife Company
- Black Rifle Coffee