The houses behind the watches
History, design and collector knowledge on the manufactures we carry. These pages are independent of our current stock — they explain why these watches endure across generations.
Rolex
The reference for precision and value retention
No manufacture has shaped the image of the modern wristwatch as lastingly as Rolex. What began in 1905 in London as a trading house is today the benchmark against which the entire secondary market measures itself.
Submariner · Cosmograph Daytona · GMT-Master II · Datejust · Day-Date · Yacht-Master
Open brand worldPatek Philippe
The last great independent Geneva manufacture
Since 1839 Patek Philippe has stood for the most uncompromising interpretation of Geneva watchmaking. Small production numbers, family-run independence and an unbroken record of auction dominance make the brand the reference point for collectors.
Nautilus · Aquanaut · Calatrava · Complications
Open brand worldAudemars Piguet
The break with convention from the Vallée de Joux
In 1972 Audemars Piguet redefined what a luxury watch could be with the Royal Oak. To this day the house in Le Brassus remains family-owned — one of the few manufactures to have turned a single design idea into its own identity.
Royal Oak · Royal Oak Offshore · Code 11.59
Open brand worldCartier
The jeweller who made the wristwatch respectable
Cartier does not come from watchmaking but from the art of the jeweller — and that is precisely why it has created forms no watchmaker would have designed. The Santos, Tank and Ballon Bleu are design icons that resist every passing fashion.
Santos · Tank · Ballon Bleu · Panthère
Open brand worldRichard Mille
High technology on the wrist
Richard Mille is the youngest name in the circle of great brands — and the most radical. Materials drawn from Formula 1 and aerospace, tonneau-shaped cases and extremely limited runs have created an entirely new collector category in little more than two decades.
RM 011 · RM 030 · RM 035
Open brand worldOmega
From the moon to the deep sea
Few brands combine technical substance with documented history as effectively as Omega. The Speedmaster stood on the moon in 1969, the Seamaster has accompanied the brand since 1948 — and both are today cornerstones of any serious collector portfolio.
Speedmaster · Seamaster
Open brand worldF.P. Journe
Invenit et Fecit — conceived and built
F.P. Journe is the most uncompromising independent manufacture of our time. A few hundred watches a year, in-house constructions and movements in red gold turn every piece into a collector's object with its own signature.
Chronomètre Bleu · Chronomètre Souverain · Chronomètre à Résonance · Octa · Tourbillon Souverain · Vagabondage
Open brand worldA. Lange & Söhne
Saxon precision, assembled twice
A. Lange & Söhne represents the German answer to Geneva's haute horlogerie: a three-quarter plate, a hand-engraved balance cock and a formal rigour that needs no decoration. The brand was re-founded in 1990, after forty years of interruption.
Lange 1 · Datograph · Zeitwerk · Odysseus · Saxonia
Open brand worldVacheron Constantin
Uninterrupted watchmaking since 1755
Vacheron Constantin is the oldest manufacture in the world to have worked without interruption. Over more than 270 years it has produced watches that prize craft and restraint above effect — from the Patrimony to the Overseas.
Overseas · Patrimony · Traditionnelle · Historiques 222 · Malte
Open brand worldJaeger-LeCoultre
The manufacture of manufactures
Jaeger-LeCoultre is regarded as the technical backbone of Swiss watchmaking. More than 1,200 in-house calibres and supplies to the greatest houses in the industry have earned the manufacture from Le Sentier its reputation.
Reverso · Master Control · Polaris · Duomètre
Open brand worldIWC Schaffhausen
Swiss watchmaking with American origins
IWC emerged in 1868 as an attempt to combine American manufacturing methods with Swiss craftsmanship. From this idea grew the only major manufacture in eastern Switzerland — known for its pilot's watches and the Portugieser.
Portugieser · Big Pilot · Ingenieur · Portofino · Aquatimer
Open brand worldPanerai
From naval instrument to cult watch
For decades Panerai built no watches for the trade at all, only instruments for the Italian navy. It only became a brand in 1993 — with a design language that is instantly recognisable.
Luminor · Radiomir · Submersible
Open brand worldHublot
The art of fusion
In 1980 Hublot was the first house to combine a gold case with a rubber strap. From this break with convention grew a design language that makes materials the central subject.
Big Bang · Classic Fusion
Open brand worldTudor
Tool watches with a signature of their own
Tudor was created as the more rugged sister brand of Rolex and is today an independent manufacture in its own right. It combines historic tool-watch forms with modern chronometer movements.
Black Bay · Pelagos · Ranger
Open brand worldBreitling
Instruments for aviation
Breitling helped develop the operating logic of the modern chronograph and equipped cockpits for decades. The Navitimer, with its slide-rule bezel, remains the symbol of that heritage.
Navitimer · Chronomat · Superocean · Premier
Open brand worldBulgari
Roman boldness, Swiss precision
Bulgari combines the visual generosity of Roman jewellery craft with the technical rigour of modern Swiss watchmaking. From the Serpenti jewel to the ultra-thin Octo Finissimo, the brand reaches beyond the boundaries of classic watch categories.
Octo Finissimo · Serpenti · Diagono
Open brand worldVan Cleef & Arpels
Poetry on the wrist
Van Cleef & Arpels translates the world of haute joaillerie into moving, narrative timepieces. Between the Alhambra symbol, secret mechanisms and playful complications, the watch becomes a wearable object of the imagination.
Alhambra · Perlée · Pont des Amoureux
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