A collection, documented.
Every watch here gets a page, a specification and a record that grows — what it is, where it came from, and everything that has happened to it since. Written down properly, because a watch outlives the memory of who serviced it.
Cartier
Cartier Tank Must
A Must de Cartier Tank in vermeil — gold over sterling silver — with an oxblood lacquer dial, a blue cabochon crown, and almost nothing else to say for itself.
Harvard Polo Club
Harvard Polo Club
A steel Harvard Polo Club on a bracelet — silver dial, date at three, sapphire crystal. Not a Swiss watch and not pretending to be.
Timex
Timex, blue dial
A blue-dial Timex on a brown leather strap. The cheapest watch here by an enormous margin, and the one that has been worn the most.
Titoni
Titoni
A slim Titoni dress watch with a faceted bezel, a white dial and a date — the kind of Swiss watch that sold in enormous numbers in Asia and almost nowhere else.
Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Constantin ref. 4465
A 1951 Vacheron Constantin in 18K white gold — silvered dial, applied Maltese cross, automatic calibre 477 — confirmed by an extract from the manufacture's own archives.
Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Constantin "Tank", ref. 7753
A white gold Vacheron Constantin "Tank", ref. 7753, running calibre 1003 — one of the thinnest mechanical movements ever built. With its original pouch, booklet and signed gold buckle.
West End Watch Co.
West End Watch Co.
A small mid-century West End Watch Co. — rolled gold bezel, steel back, and a cream dial that has aged into something better than it started.