A field watch has one job — to be read instantly, in bad light, by someone busy. Hoarfell treats every decorative decision as a threat to that job, and loses most of the arguments a design team would normally have.
Tritium indices, which glow for around twenty-five years with no battery and no charging from a light source. An in-house movement that is documented rather than proprietary, and deliberately standard enough that any competent watchmaker can service it. No special tools, no sending it back to us, no country restrictions.
That last decision costs them an entire revenue stream. Servicing is where watch brands make their margin, and Hoarfell has designed itself out of it deliberately, on the theory that a watch you cannot get serviced in ten years is a watch you should not have bought.