More than time: watchmaker Nomadic secures top cross-border award
Peter McAuley learned that watches are about more than telling the time when he lost a watch left to him by a much-loved uncle deep beneath the waters of a Fermanagh lake during a day’s kayaking. On Wednesday, Nomadic Watches, the Belfast watchmaker run by McAuley and his wife, Jane, won the €150,000 gold award in this year’s North-South Business Cooperation Awards run by Greek-Cypriot billionaire, Stelios Haji-Ioannou.“I was always interested in watches. My dad had always got nice watches, and my uncle. When my uncle died, he left me a nice Tag Heuer, and I would wear it for everything. “I wore it on a kayaking trip in County Fermanagh. When I got back, the watch had fallen off my wrist in the water, and it was gone forever. That was when I realised that watches are about more than telling the time,” says McAuley. Beginning with models costing…