The Short Version
- The original RegaMaster was discontinued. The revival is real, not a badge on someone else’s wheel.
- Forged, made in Japan by TAN-EI-SYA, on an 8,000-tonne press.
- Every size passes JWL and is VIA-registered.
- The brand is owned by a US company, with Japanese operations contracted to a Japanese one.
The Death and Revival
The story you will hear is that Desmond went under and the RegaMaster is gone. The first half is roughly right; the second is wrong, and the details matter.
Desmond’s own current site states plainly that the original RegaMaster was discontinued — 販売を終了. It has since been revived as the RegaMaster EVO II, redesigned by 山本和臣 (Kazuomi Yamamoto) of Rightman R&D — who was one of the original wheel’s developers.
That last detail is what separates this from a name being bought and stuck on something unrelated. The person who designed the original designed the revival.
Who Owns It Now
We went looking for “Desmond International” and could not confirm any entity by that name from a primary source. What Desmond’s own company page says today is different and unambiguous:
- The operating company is ICB Motorsport, of Chandler, Arizona, USA. Its stated business is importing and selling Japanese-made auto parts, planning and running Desmond Wheels, and acting as a US agent for Japanese manufacturers.
- A footnote adds: Desmond Wheels’ Japanese domestic operations are entrusted to and carried out by 株式会社ICB (ICB Co., Ltd.).
So a Japanese-designed, Japanese-forged wheel is commercially operated from Arizona, with the Japanese side contracted back to a Japanese ICB entity. Unusual, and stated openly on their own site rather than buried.
We could not confirm the original 1990s company’s registered name or the date it ceased trading. If “Desmond International” was that entity, we found no primary document naming it.
Who Actually Forges It
This is where the RegaMaster does better than most brands in this series. Desmond names its manufacturing partner: TAN-EI-SYA, using an 8,000-tonne forging press followed by a post-forge 裂開スピニング (split-spinning) operation on the rim.
Compare that with the NISMO LM GT4, where the maker is not stated, or TRD, where nobody will say. Desmond tells you, on its own site, and the wheel is 100% made in Japan.
Sizes
From Desmond’s official price list, dated 1 June 2024:
| Parameter | Range |
|---|---|
| Diameter | 16, 17, 18, 19 inch |
| Width | 7.0J to 12.0J |
| Offset | roughly +12 to +53 |
| PCD | 100, 108, 112, 114.3, 120, 130 — in 4-hole and 5-hole |
| Centre bore | 65.0 to 73.1 mm |
Note the 4-hole options, which are rare on a forged wheel this size and make the RegaMaster a genuine option for the 4×100 and 4×114.3 cars we keep writing about. Note also PCD 130, which is Porsche territory.
Everything is 受注生産 — made to order. Desmond states that lead time varies by when you order and gives no specific figure, so treat any precise week count you read elsewhere as unverified.
Certification
Desmond states it directly: all products pass JWL testing and are registered with VIA, under JAWA-aligned quality certification.
That is a cleaner statement than we got from either Enkei on the RPF1 or TRD, both of which we had to file under “could not verify.” Worth crediting when a manufacturer simply says the thing.
The Racing Line
A RegaMaster EVO2 Racing Line variant, certified for the GR86/BRZ Cup, was added in 2022 and is sold through a separate distributor. We found this in a Japanese-language encyclopaedia entry citing a print source rather than on Desmond’s own site, so we are labelling it as secondary.
What We Could Not Verify
- The registered name and closure date of the original Desmond company. All current primary sourcing points to ICB; we found no document naming “Desmond International”.
- Any specific lead time in weeks for made-to-order production.
- The Racing Line variant from a Desmond-official source.