Sopwith Watch Company was the presenting sponsor of the Dawn Patrol Rendezvous Air Show in Springfield, Ohio. The Dawn Patrol program features flying replica World War I airplanes, model aviation, a stellar line-up of well known speakers and authors, and an extensive array of vintage automobiles.

Sopwith is the proud sponsor of five of the finest aerobatic pilots in the world, performing for audiences across North and Central America.

The company has provided technical data on early aero engines to Murrin Vintage Aero of Greenville, Pennsylvania, including the elemental composition of aviation engines including the Gnome Monosoupape and the Le Rhône 9C. Sopwith is the guardian of hundreds of historical records of early aviation including handwritten documents from nearly sixty World War I pilots, thousands of private photographs, and dozens of written and recorded audio interviews with pilots of the pre-1920 era. Sopwith also preserves more than 50 hours of original footage filmed on site in France and Belgium, documenting the locations of former airfields from World War I and World War II.

The company’s president has traveled extensively throughout North America, Africa and Europe to assemble and preserve documents, artifacts and testimonies related to aviation in the First World War. By special invitation he attended the Museum of the United State Air Force’s unveiling of their 1918 Caproni Ca.36 heavy bomber, conducting interviews with the last surviving pilots.

In similar fashion Sopwith’s president preserved and published the lost letters of racing driver Frederick “Skinny” Clemons, who finished fifth in the 1910 Labor Day races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He hosted and produced a television special on the discovery of the first prototype Pontiac Trans Am sports car and authored books that preserved eyewitness accounts of the famed 1972 L&M Penske Porsche 917/10 Can Am winning car and the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona.

Sopwith Watch Company also donates toward the restoration of historic Ford Mustangs, vintage race cars and antique aircraft.

Company president Stephen Cox travels the world to personally select the rare materials from which Sopwith’s historic cases are made. Materials must meet strict criteria to be transformed into a Sopwith watch case: the part cannot be in museum-quality condition and it must be reviewed and declared inadequate for restoration by an expert in the field. Sopwith rescues these unusable materials and transforms them into horological works of art at our in-house foundry.