* Scottish family-run MacKinnon Watches has launched a new collection of watches and accessories featuring the distinctive Doddie'5 tartan, created in partnership with My Name'5 Doddie Foundation to help fund research into effective treatments for motor neuron disease (MND).

The Doddie'5 Tartan Collection brings together a tartan watch, Apple Watch strap, traditional watch strap and watch case, each designed around the unmistakable colours associated with Scottish rugby legend Doddie Weir and his legacy.

With every purchase, MacKinnon Watches makes a contribution to My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, helping to fund research focused on finding faster routes to effective treatments for MND.

The collection follows MacKinnon Watches' recent global "Outlander" partnership with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, continuing the brand's focus on Scottish stories, tartan and craftsmanship. While the Outlander collection celebrates Scotland through one of the country's most cult-celebrated fictional stories, the Doddie'5 collection carries a more personal connection, bringing together Doddie's tartan, his love of rugby and the work of the Foundation he established.

The Doddie'5 tartan brings together blue and white for Scotland, Doddie's home nation, black and yellow for Melrose RFC, where he played his first senior rugby, and black and white for Newcastle Falcons, where his professional career began.

The Doddie'5 Tartan Watch features the tartan on a strap handmade in Scotland. The collection also includes a handcrafted Apple Watch strap, made using tartan sourced from traditional Scottish mills and finished with premium leather underneath, alongside a matching watch case designed for storage and travel.

Customers can personalise the leather backing of the Doddie'5 watch and Apple Watch straps with a surname, initials or date, adding a further personal connection to the piece.

For MacKinnon Watches, the collection is about more than creating another tartan design. Founders Belinda and Matthew Murphy wanted to embrace Scottish craftsmanship, heritage and design to tell Doddie's story while supporting the work needed to change the future for people living with MND.

Doddie Weir founded My Name'5 Doddie Foundation with a clear vision of a world free of MND. The Foundation funds bold research and brings together leading minds and works to accelerate the development of effective treatments because, for people living with MND, time matters.

Belinda Murphy, Co-Founder of MacKinnon Watches, said:

"For me and Matthew, this felt like a personal ambition to use our growing brand presence to make a real difference. Doddie Weir was someone who understood the power of bringing people together. He had a huge personality, a real sense of fun and a determination to make things happen.

"For us, this collection is a way of bringing together things that are at the heart of MacKinnon Watches - Scotland, tartan, craftsmanship and stories that mean something to people. We're thrilled to work with My Name'5 Doddie Foundation and to create something that people can wear with pride, knowing that they're helping support the research needed to move MND treatments forward. Doddie's tartan is instantly recognisable and every colour has a story behind it. We wanted to respect that story while creating pieces that feel right for people to wear every day."

Paul Thompson, Director of Fundraising at My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, said:

"Doddie's unmistakable tartan has become a powerful symbol of our ongoing determination to achieve his aim of effective treatments and, one day, a cure for MND.

"As well as looking fantastic, this collection captures Doddie's character perfectly and gives people another way to show their pride in and support for the cause he so tirelessly championed.

"Every purchase will help fund vital research through My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. We're grateful to MacKinnon Watches and everyone who supports the collection for helping us build on Doddie's legacy and drive progress for people living with MND."

The MacKinnon Watches Doddie'5 Tartan Collection is available now at www.mackinnonwatches.com.

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