Our Story
Time Is Not Something
to Save
It's something to inhabit well. That conviction is the reason Daymark exists — and it started with a child's hand resting on his father's wrist.
Where It Began
A Watch on a
Father's Wrist
I can still see it clearly — the face of the watch on my dad's wrist. As a kid, I was captivated by it. I'd reach for it, trace the crown, study the dial. I thought it was the watch that held my attention.
It took years to understand what was really happening. It wasn't the watch. It was the man wearing it. It was the time I had with him — unhurried, close, present. The watch was just the thing my hands found while the rest of me was simply with my dad.
That memory is the foundation of everything Daymark is. A watch is never just a watch. It is a marker of the moments that mattered — the hours that shaped us, the people we were present with, the time we chose to spend and how.
"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
Psalm 90:12
The Formation
Built in a
Pastor's Home
I grew up a pastor's kid. I went to school to become a pastor. I served as an associate pastor. My entire formation happened inside a tradition that takes seriously how we use what we're given — our time, our resources, our relationships.
That language never left me. When I stepped into the business world and built a multi-million dollar company in the service industry, I brought that same framework with me: that how you handle the things entrusted to you says everything about who you are.
Business and pastoral values don't have to pull in opposite directions. Daymark is my proof of that — a business built on the conviction that honesty, stewardship, and genuine care for people can be a competitive advantage, not just a nice sentiment.
Why Now
The World Doesn't Need
to Save Time
We live in a world that is fast-paced, ultra-sensitive, and fixated on automation — all in the name of saving time. But we don't need to save time. We need to be saved to understand how to use our time well.
I love watches because they push back against that. A mechanical watch doesn't rush. It marks the moment. It asks you to be present. My own collection — anchored by my first Rolex, an Oyster Perpetual Air-King — started because of that memory of my father's wrist. And now, as I make room in the collection for what's next, I want to do it the way I'd do anything: honestly, carefully, and with real attention to the person on the other side of the trade.
That's Daymark. Not just a watch business. A small act of stewardship — helping good timepieces find the right hands, and helping people reclaim a little of what time is actually for.
Our Mission
"Daymark exists because time is worth marking. We trade watches with the conviction that a well-kept timepiece — passed honestly from one hand to the next — is a small act of stewardship in a throwaway world."