Mappin & Webb

Jonathan Mappin opened a silver workshop in Sheffield in 1775. The firm became Mappin & Webb when John Newton Mappin took George Webb into partnership a century later, and moved into London retailing from Oxford Street.

Royal warrants followed and have continued: the company has held appointments as silversmiths to the Crown across successive reigns, and has made and maintained ceremonial silver, trophies and regalia — including work associated with coronations and with sporting trophies still competed for today.

The watch side is retail rather than manufacture. Mappin & Webb sells the Swiss houses through its own shops, and pieces carrying the Mappin & Webb name are produced to its specification rather than in its own workshops.

The company sits within Watches of Switzerland Group alongside Goldsmiths and Watches of Switzerland itself, which is why the three often share stock and feed data.

Its own-name watches are conservative by design — dress cases, Roman numerals, slim profiles — aimed at buyers who want a British jeweller's name rather than a Swiss manufacture's.

Mappin & Webb holds 1 model, from £850 to £850. Half cost less than £850, and a quarter less than £850. 1 of 1 is automatic. 1 is stocked by more than one retailer, giving 2 offers in total. Prices are checked nightly against the retailers’ own feeds.

1775

Jonathan Mappin opens a silver workshop in Sheffield.

1860

Expands into London retailing.

1897

The Mappin & Webb partnership takes its modern form.

1990

Continues as royal silversmith across successive reigns.

2017

Sits within Watches of Switzerland Group.