Chesterfield Family

The Chesterfields were a prominent family in Gilneas City until its fall in late 623KY. Originally a family of petty labourers, over three centuries they raised themselves to ever increasing heights, until they stood as prominent members of the bourgeois middle class of Gilneas in the late 5th Century. Unfortunately, their loftier ambitions - which had gone so far as the purchase of the dismantled Luntzmaster Manufacturing company - were cut short by both the Worgen and the Forsaken Invasion, and today the Chesterfields are a largely destitute family peddling their clockmaking skills in Stormwind City.
While their name has yet to regain its former cachet as a guarantee of quality, Chesterfield-designed pocket watches are an increasingly affordable and popular item among the bureaucrats and officers of the Kingdom of Stormwind. The most common such design, crafted in conjunction with Hulton Fizzwhisker's Gnomish artisans, is a modified hunter-case that can also be worn on a wrist strap, utilizing a fully jewelled mechanism and a stem-winding system. One feature in these watches, an innovation by Nathan Chesterfield, is a carefully regulated mechanism that allows the watch to keep identical time in conditions of high heat and extreme cold - a popular one, given the uncertainty of deployment across Azeroth's many climates.
This article is a WIP.
Category:Families
Category:Gilneas City