Dress Watch
Bands: BKBKGBGW · Stripes: DB K DB K G DB G W DB K DB K G DB G W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=976
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/11/2003 — Dress Watch (register-of-tartans, record)
- Nov 2003 — Dress Watch (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Dress Watch (Fashion) Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6069. Earliest known date: Nov 2003 Introduced as a fashion tartan by the House of Edgar to provide a photogenic pattern similar to the Black Watch. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 976
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6069
Thread count
DB/8 K6 DB36 K36 G36 DB2 G4 W/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Blair — ΔT 0.82
- Herd Family Tartan Tartan Number: 170. Earliest known date: 1978 Woven for the wedding of William Hurd to Heather Petit. From JCT: STS monitoring committee recorded 1978. In march 2005. STS Record has the application being made by Councillor R J Herd, C.Eng, M.I.C.E., A.M.B.I.M. who had been granted arms by Lord Lyon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
- Baird — ΔT 0.93
- Hebridean Old — ΔT 0.97
- Lochaber District — ΔT 0.98
- Glenturret Distillery — ΔT 0.99
- MacCormick — ΔT 1.00
- Whitson #2 — ΔT 1.04
- Oceanic (Corporate?) — ΔT 1.11
- MacRae Hunting #2 — ΔT 1.11
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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