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01/09/2026

From building a collection, to creating connections, for centuries people have enjoyed and valued timepieces.

FutureGrail presents a five-part film that explores how watches came to be so treasured. Through the ages of discovery, watches have played an integral part in exploring the world. And, as cultures collided, timepieces have shaped trends and fashion.

Today the mechanical watch is a testament to heritage and how human craft tells a different kind of story.

Stay tuned for the first episode if you want to learn more about truly brilliant timepieces.

A dress watch commissioned to mark a jeweller's anniversary, not a watchmaker's.In 1993 Patek Philippe produced 150 exam...
31/08/2026

A dress watch commissioned to mark a jeweller's anniversary, not a watchmaker's.

In 1993 Patek Philippe produced 150 examples of the Calatrava Reference 3998 in 18-carat rose gold for Garrard & Co, the London house that had held the Royal Warrant as Crown Jeweller and served as a Patek Philippe retailer since 1843. The watch marks Garrard's 150th year, and it says so plainly: the sapphire exhibition case-back is inscribed "1843 Garrard 1993 Anniversary."

The dial is the reason collectors seek this reference out. Salmon toned, warm against the rose gold case, carrying applied Breguet numerals in place of the batons that appear on most standard 3998 references. A date aperture sits at 3 o'clock. The proportions are quietly correct throughout, a 34mm case that wears the way a dress watch should, water-resistant without announcing the fact.

Beneath the dial, calibre 315 SC. Self-winding, a 21-carat gold rotor, 48 hours of power reserve, Geneva Seal. This movement superseded the calibre 310 SC of the earliest 3998 examples, itself a marker for anyone tracing the reference's development.

A limited edition built for a retailer's history, wearing a Patek Philippe movement good enough to earn its own place in the manufacture's own.

Collectors call it the Monodate, and the name tells you everything about the intent. One complication, executed complete...
19/08/2026

Collectors call it the Monodate, and the name tells you everything about the intent. One complication, executed completely, on a dial that asks for nothing else.

The Patek Philippe Reference 3541J was produced between 1961 and 1969, cased in 18k yellow gold at roughly 36mm, with straight faceted lugs and a two-piece case closed by a screw-down back. Generous proportions for a dress watch of its era. The dial is textured linen, and the grain catches light across its surface as the wrist moves. Applied gold baton indexes, slim baton hands, subsidiary seconds at six, and a single date aperture at three.

Beneath it sits the automatic calibre 27-460 M. Thirty-seven jewels, a Gyromax balance, adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, stamped with the Poinçon de Genève. This was traditional watchmaking at its most confident, produced in the last decade before quartz forced the industry to justify itself.

The 3541 has spent years in the shadow of louder references. That is beginning to change. Yellow gold is returning to favour, and collectors are rediscovering the quiet ones.

Available now on our website.

08/08/2026

Patek Philippe’s first automatic wristwatch with a date calendar.

Dress watches stayed deliberately simple. Reference 3445 changed that in 1961, becoming the manufacture’s first serially produced automatic watch to carry a calendar complication.

Collectors nicknamed it the Monodate, and the name has stuck for over sixty years.

What sets it apart at a glance: the stepped, angular lugs, a sharper departure from the rounded Calatrava case shapes that came before it. The silvered opaline dial, made by Stern Frères, still catches light the way it did in 1961. And underneath, Caliber 27-460 M, a self-winding movement finished to Geneva Seal standard and still regarded as one of the finest of its kind.

A landmark reference for anyone building a serious Patek Philippe collection.

A dial split down the center. A case built to hold two independent ideas of time.Produced during the height of avant-gar...
05/08/2026

A dial split down the center. A case built to hold two independent ideas of time.

Produced during the height of avant-garde experimentation in late 1970s Swiss watch design, the Baume & Mercier Reference 32000 abandons the utilitarian dial layout altogether in favour of pure geometric expression. Its defining signature is the vertically split "yin-yang" dial, one half finished in radiant ch*****ne gold gilt, the other in deep anthracite black, divided precisely down the center axis. Stark baton markers and the absence of a sweeping seconds hand leave the composition uncluttered, a study in negative space and contrast.

The solid 18-carat yellow gold cushion case conceals an unusual mechanical solution. Rather than a single movement with GMT gearing, Baume & Mercier fitted two entirely autonomous manual-wind Caliber BM 550 movements side by side, each with its own 17-jewel train, regulated independently by crowns set symmetrically on opposing case flanks. The result is total mechanical freedom to set two time zones down to the precise minute.

Produced in limited numbers given its avant-garde construction, the reference carries further prestige through elite co-branded variations retailed by Hermès and curated in collaboration with Cartier Paris.

04/08/2026

This reference, they made only in steel.

Not yellow gold. Not rose. Not platinum, not once. From the first example in 1961, Patek Philippe built Reference 3446 in steel alone, a decision most of their catalogue never made.

The case was built by Jean Vallon in Neuchâtel, water-resistant with a screwed case-back. The dial, silver with lapidated steel indexes, came from Stern Frères in Geneva. Inside, calibre 27-460, a free-sprung Gyromax balance, and the Geneva Seal, with a solid yellow gold rotor turning quietly beneath the case-back.

Gold everywhere, except where the world could see it.

Available now via private sale.

From the Vault.Six watches of the first series Reference 570R have been identified. This watch is the only one with this...
01/08/2026

From the Vault.

Six watches of the first series Reference 570R have been identified. This watch is the only one with this dial configuration and these colors.

One of the most iconic watches from the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer is the Patek Philippe Reference 570. This timepiece was the first large Calatrava produced in series, introduced in 1939 with the calibre 12 SCi, a movement created by Victorin Piguet's workshops that brought the seconds hand to the centre of the dial. This alteration to the timepiece would become a defining feature of all models within the Reference 570 until 1970.

This 1943 Patek Philippe timepiece was cased in pink gold by Antoine Gerlach on May 20th, 1944. As a member of the first series of Patek Philippe timepieces, this model features a calibre 12 120 SCi movement bearing the Geneva Seal twice. The case of this timepiece retained its original design elements for the remainder of its life.

The dial of this timepiece is unique in the world of timepieces. This silvered silver plate from Stern Frères has a two-tone finish of satin and circular brushing. Also, pink gold Arabic numerals mark the quarters of the dial, with bullet markers between those numerals. The Extract from the Archives dated 2020 confirms that the rose dial with applied gold hour markers exists on this watch. However, none of the other six examples of this model have this dial layout.

The reference 3433 marks a turning point for the Calatrava line. Launched in 1961, it replaced reference 2551 and introd...
31/07/2026

The reference 3433 marks a turning point for the Calatrava line. Launched in 1961, it replaced reference 2551 and introduced the calibre 24-760, Patek Philippe's answer to a growing collector demand for self-winding, water-resistant dress watches, a category the manufacture had approached cautiously until then.

This 3433J, double signed for Gübelin, Lucerne, was made in 1962 and sold that same June. Silver dial by Stern Frères, calibre 27-460 within, adjusted to five positions and bearing the Poinçon de Genève. Fluted lugs and case-band, a silhouette inherited from its predecessor and the detail that gave both references their shared nickname among collectors.

Of the roughly four hundred yellow gold examples believed made, around twenty-seven are known to the market today. A reference that quietly redefined what a Calatrava could be, and one rarely offered in this condition, with this provenance.

Available now through private sale.

This is where the work happens.Not the photography. Not the cataloguing. The work. The kind that takes place under magni...
30/07/2026

This is where the work happens.

Not the photography. Not the cataloguing. The work. The kind that takes place under magnification, in silence, with tools that have not changed much in a century because they do not need to.

A vintage movement is a record of decisions made by another watchmaker, decades ago, in another room entirely. Reading it correctly — understanding what has been serviced before, what has never been touched, what needs to be preserved rather than replaced — requires something that cannot be rushed or approximated.

Our watchmakers work exclusively on vintage timepieces. Every movement that comes through is documented before it is opened and treated with the same care we extend to the pieces we sell.

Because a watch is only as good as its last service.

Enquire about our servicing via the link in bio.

From the vault.One hundred and forty examples. Thirty-three years of production. One known with this signature.The Patek...
27/07/2026

From the vault.

One hundred and forty examples. Thirty-three years of production. One known with this signature.

The Patek Philippe Reference 1436 occupies a very specific place in the history of complicated watchmaking. Introduced in 1938 as the manufacture's first split-seconds chronograph produced in series, it remained in production until 1971 — evolving technically and aesthetically across that span while never losing the essential character that made it extraordinary. Of the 140 examples ever made, approximately 59 are known publicly in yellow gold. This is one of them.

What elevates this particular watch beyond its already exceptional status is the signature on the dial. Gübelin of Lucerne, founded in 1854 and among the most prestigious retail partners in Swiss watchmaking history, signed this reference 1436. Making it the only known double-signed Gübelin example of the reference in existence. That is not a footnote. It is the entire provenance argument made in a single line of text.

The watch dates from 1965, placing it firmly within the second generation of the reference, fitted with a co-axial push button within the crown for the split-seconds function. The dial, with its tachymeter scale and applied indexes, is among the most considered of any 1436 configuration.

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