Journal
Authentication, collecting, cross-border buying and ownership — written by the people who service the watches.
Patek Philippe·29 August 2026
Half a century on from Genta's porthole sketch, the 5711 line is the most requested steel watch we are asked to source. A look at why the waiting list outlived the reference itself.
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The collaboration·27 August 2026
Four dials, one tapisserie pattern, and a conversation about what a Royal Oak is for. We look at what it does to the value of the originals — and what it does not.
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Rolex·25 August 2026
Made for the company's fortieth birthday in 1945, and barely altered since. The story of the first watch to put the date on the dial — and of a bezel that began life as a tool fitting.
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Rolex·24 August 2026
Seventy years of changing one thing at a time and never the shape. From the 6204 at a hundred metres to ceramic and forty-one millimetres — and why each small change moves the price of everything before it.
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Rolex·22 August 2026
Pan Am asked for a watch its pilots could cross the Atlantic with. What came back had a bakelite bezel that cracked, an aluminium one that faded to lilac — and a red-and-blue ceramic that took Rolex until 2014 to make at all.
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Rolex·20 August 2026
Launched in 1963 and so hard to shift that dealers discounted it. How the least wanted Rolex of the sixties became the one with the longest list.
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