Journal

Notes from the house

Catalogue

The horological season: sixteen watches enter the catalogue

Sixteen important watches spanning a 1928 Tank Cintrée to a 1978 Nautilus 3700 join the private sales this autumn — each examined by our specialists and offered with a full condition report.

Essay

Collecting time: why provenance now leads the market

Condition once ruled every catalogue description. Today the story a piece carries — who owned it, where it surfaced, what papers follow it — increasingly sets its price.

Results

Placed this season: ten pieces that found new homes

From a pigeon's-blood ruby to a quiet Victorian rivière, ten recent placements from the private sales tell the story of the season.

Guide

How we price: reading an asking price

An asking price is a considered opinion, not an opening gambit. A short guide to how the house arrives at the figure printed beside each piece.

Essay

The cabinet reopens: collecting objects with a working life

Trunks that travelled, pens that signed, cameras that framed a century — the collectibles market rewards objects that did something, and still can.