A heavyweight worsted wool watch cap knit in Portland on the same machines that have been running since the 1920s. Six-seam crown, dense hand, and a novelty accent stitch that reads clean in the mirror and holds shape through a real winter.
The watch cap is naval by origin. The founder's son shipped out as a torpedo man in the Pacific and came home to run the family mill for five decades, and the pattern in your hands is a direct nod to what deckhands wore on the North Atlantic. It looks the part with a peacoat, a heavy Shetland, or a waxed jacket on the coldest days of the year.