Engraved and shipped within 10 business days*
*Counted from the day you approve your design, not the day you order — nothing is cut until you've seen a proof at actual size.
ENGRAVE ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE
Their name and the year. The school crest. A line in your own handwriting, photographed and traced by our designers. Coordinates of the campus they're about to leave. Whatever goes on the back, you see a proof at actual size before anything is cut.
The gifts that survive a graduation are the ones with a name on them.
Everything else gets replaced inside five years. A watch gets carried, and a watch with their name on the back stops being a gift you bought and becomes a thing they own. That distinction is the whole reason engraving works on this occasion and not on most others.
It's also a gift bought by parents and grandparents rather than by the graduate, which means the engraving is where you say the part you won't say at dinner. Put it on the caseback and let them find it later.
READY TO GIVE
Every Hampden arrives in a lined presentation box, so there's nothing to wrap between the ceremony and the party.
Nothing is engraved until you approve the proof at actual size, and you can change it as many times as you need. Once you approve it, the watch is cut and on its way within 10 business days.