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Founded in Paris; Trilobe represents a modern French vision of independent watchmaking­poetic, intellectual, and unapolo...
28/09/2026

Founded in Paris; Trilobe represents a modern French vision of independent watchmaking­poetic, intellectual, and unapologetically unconventional. Rather than relying on central hands, the maison became known for rethinking the display of time through rotating rings and spatial design, transforming a familiar act into a more contemplative experience.

Les Matinaux captures that philosophy with quiet confidence. Its rose-gold case and champagne-toned display project warmth and refinement, while the distinctive time indication invites a second glance-the kind of detail that serious collectors value because it rewards attention rather than demanding it.

In a field often defined by repetition, Trilobe stands apart for offering a fresh visual language without sacrificing elegance. The result is a timepiece that feels distinctly French in spirit: cultured, modern, and beautifully individual.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

The Datejust doesn't ask to be noticed. It simply keeps being right.Reference 16013 is Rolex's Rolesor Datejust at its m...
27/09/2026

The Datejust doesn't ask to be noticed. It simply keeps being right.

Reference 16013 is Rolex's Rolesor Datejust at its most familiar: a 36mm Oyster case in steel and 18k yellow gold, the two-tone construction Rolex calls Rolesor, fluted gold bezel, and the Jubilee bracelet built specifically for this configuration. Inside, caliber 3035 runs the movement, self-winding, with the quickset date function that let the wearer advance the date independently of the hands, a small convenience that quietly became an expectation once collectors got used to it.

This example carries a champagne patterned dial, warm rather than stark, the cyclops lens sitting over the date the way it has since Rolex introduced the magnifier decades earlier. The watch is dated to July 1984 by its production window, a Datejust doing exactly what a Datejust was built to do: mark ordinary days with quiet, unbothered consistency.

Steel for discipline, gold for ceremony, worn daily by design rather than kept for occasions.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

Before the Day-Date needed a nickname, this dial earned it one.Reference 1803 belongs to the archetypal Day-Date family,...
27/09/2026

Before the Day-Date needed a nickname, this dial earned it one.

Reference 1803 belongs to the archetypal Day-Date family, the 1800 series Rolex produced from 1959 into the late 1970s, the design generation that made the model synonymous with the presidency after a string of American presidents, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan among them, were seen wearing one. This example, circa 1968, carries the configuration collectors call "Wide Boy": oversized block hour markers and extra-wide cigarette hands, a dial variant Rolex produced for only a short window in the late 1960s and early '70s before returning to standard proportions.

The dark grey dial holds its own texture, pie-pan stepped, tritium lume aged into a warm patina consistent with age rather than restoration. Rose gold throughout, a fluted bezel, screw-down rose gold crown, solid case-back rather than exhibition. The automatic movement runs the classic non-quick-set date, requiring the hands to be cycled through midnight to advance it, a mechanical quirk collectors read as period-correct rather than inconvenient. Acrylic crystal, unreplaced.

Offered naked, watch only.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

Patek Philippe called it Advanced Research and meant it literally.The Ref. 5450P is the third watch in a series that sta...
27/09/2026

Patek Philippe called it Advanced Research and meant it literally.

The Ref. 5450P is the third watch in a series that started in 2005, each one adding a new silicon component to the escapement and publishing the results. Reference 5250 introduced a Silinvar escape wheel. Reference 5350 added a Spiromax hairspring. This watch, released in 2008 and cased here in 2009, completes the set with the Pulsomax escapement, a lever and escape wheel both made from silicon rather than steel, engineered to run without lubrication, resist magnetism, and hold isochronism across temperature swings that would throw a conventional escapement off rate.

None of that shows on the dial. What shows is restraint: a salmon face, applied numerals, an annual calendar reading day, date and month without the complexity of a full perpetual, moon phases, and a power reserve indicator, laid out with the calm Patek Philippe brings to even its most technical work. Platinum case, 39mm, caliber 324 S IRM QA LU beating beneath a sapphire display back with magnifier.

Limited to 300 pieces. The Pulsomax escapement introduced here would go on to appear in Patek's grand complications, proof the research was never just for show.
Complete with original box and papers.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

Ten days, not one power reserve indicator was worth showing off before this one.Patek Philippe built the Gondolo 5100R t...
26/09/2026

Ten days, not one power reserve indicator was worth showing off before this one.
Patek Philippe built the Gondolo 5100R to mark the arrival of the millennium, and gave it a reason to matter beyond the date on the calendar: calibre 28-20/220, a hand-wound movement with dual barrels and a Gyromax balance delivering ten full days of power reserve, an extraordinary figure even now and a genuine technical statement in 2000. The rectangular case takes its shape from the 1950s reference 2556, itself drawn from the silhouette of a manta ray, elongated and architectural in a way that reaches back to the shaped watches of the 1920s and '30s while reading as unmistakably contemporary.

Rose gold, a restrained grey dial, applied gold markers, a power-reserve display at 12 o'clock and small seconds at 6, all resolved without complication density, the watch's authority coming from proportion and duration rather than from stacking functions. A sapphire exhibition case-back opens onto the movement itself.

Limited to 750 examples in rose gold, part of a run of 3,000 across four metals released for the millennium. The tooling was destroyed after production closed, which is as final as limited production gets.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

The year this century of watchmaking begins.By 1923, the wristwatch was still a recent argument being won. Men had worn ...
26/09/2026

The year this century of watchmaking begins.

By 1923, the wristwatch was still a recent argument being won. Men had worn pocket watches for generations; the trench watches of the First World War had only just proven that time could be read at a glance, on the wrist, without breaking stride. This Omega belongs to that argument's early resolution: a rectangular case with cut corners, its every surface hand-engraved with scrolling foliate work, articulated three-link lugs built to move with the wrist rather than fight it.

The dial keeps its age honestly. Bold Arabic numerals, blued steel hands, a subsidiary seconds register at 6 o'clock, the whole face aged into a soft champagne patina that no amount of restoration should ever try to erase. OMEGA, signed simply beneath 12. 18K gold throughout, a hinged case-back, a signed crown at 3.

A watch old enough to have been new when the century it opens this auction was still young.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

A balance wheel that appears to move on nothing at all.The LM Split Escapement takes MB&F's signature suspended balance,...
26/09/2026

A balance wheel that appears to move on nothing at all.

The LM Split Escapement takes MB&F's signature suspended balance, the feature that has floated above every Legacy Machine dial since the line began, and pushes the idea further than the collection ever had. Here the balance is severed from the mechanism that drives it. The escape wheel and anchor, the components that actually deliver power to keep it swinging, sit almost 12mm below, hidden on the movement's reverse side, connected to the visible balance only by a slender staff running the full depth of the watch. The result reads as sleight of hand: a 14mm balance wheel, beating at a traditional 2.5Hz, oscillating above the dial with no apparent source of motion.

The dial itself gives the mechanism room to perform. Time at 12, power reserve at 4, a hand-set date at 8 with a quick-correction pusher on the case flank. The frosted yellow finish is worked by hand, burnished rather than acid-etched, a texture that reads warm under any light without ever glaring.

White gold, 44mm, 17.5mm thick, sapphire crystal front and back. Movement developed for MB&F by Stephen McDonnell, hand-wound, twin mainspring barrels feeding 72 hours of reserve. One of only 18 examples made in this white gold and yellow frost configuration, this being number 5.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 to 2026.
📅 2 to 6 October

By day, a globe. By night, a city grid of light.The World Is Yours traces back to a gift: a dual-time watch Jacob Arabo'...
26/09/2026

By day, a globe. By night, a city grid of light.

The World Is Yours traces back to a gift: a dual-time watch Jacob Arabo's father gave him at thirteen, a message about possibility he spent decades turning into a collection. The complication at its centre remains genuinely unusual in fine watchmaking, independently adjustable dual time zones, hours and minutes set separately rather than jumping together, built for travellers crossing offsets that don't divide neatly into whole hours.

This MAD Paris edition takes that architecture and inverts it into night. Black DLC-coated steel, 47mm, a domed dial that reads as a globe from above rather than a flat map, stepped down toward the case edge. What sets it apart only shows in the dark: hundreds of individually applied city lights across the continents, invisible by day, luminous once the lights go out, turning the world map into something closer to a satellite photograph of Earth after sunset. MAD Paris's own typeface marks the subdials, and the central small-seconds wheel carries the collaboration's mechanical, slightly industrial signature.

Swiss automatic movement, anti-reflective sapphire crystal, water resistant to 100 metres. An ultra-limited run, each example individually serialed and no two alike.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

Some voices belong to a thousand characters. This watch belonged to the man behind all of them.Mel Blanc voiced roughly ...
25/09/2026

Some voices belong to a thousand characters. This watch belonged to the man behind all of them.

Mel Blanc voiced roughly 400 characters for Warner Bros., Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety and Sylvester among them, a career that made him arguably the single most-heard actor of the 20th century without most of his audience ever learning his face. On his wrist: a Patek Philippe reference 1579, the chronograph collectors nicknamed "Spider Lugs" for the faceted, multi-bevelled downturned lugs that break from the circular case in a way no other Patek chronograph of its era attempted.

Introduced in 1943 and produced until 1964, the 1579 was Patek's largest chronograph of its time at 36mm, built oversized to answer the aviator's chronographs then coming into fashion. This example carries the second-series dial, Arabic and square numerals with feuille hands, a tachymeter scale running the full perimeter, and twin registers for 30-minute totalizing and running seconds. Yellow gold case, rectangular chronograph pushers, PATEK PHILIPPE & CO GENEVE signed beneath 12.

Fewer than 500 examples of the 1579 are believed to have been made across its full run. This one carries a name recognizable to more people than almost any watch in this collection, even if very few of them would know it on sight.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

A bridge, not a bezel, holds this dial together.Arnold & Son built the Globetrotter around a single engineering decision...
25/09/2026

A bridge, not a bezel, holds this dial together.

Arnold & Son built the Globetrotter around a single engineering decision: instead of setting a world-time display flat against the dial, span it with a large arched bridge and let a three-dimensional globe rotate beneath it. In 45mm steel, that globe depicts the Earth's northern hemisphere as seen from directly above the North Pole, a rounded brass disc chemically etched and hand-polished for continents, sandblasted for mountain relief, and lacquered in hand-layered blues for ocean. The whole component is finished under clear lacquer, then polished once more.

The blued steel hour and minute hands sit beneath the hemisphere, filled with red lacquer for legibility, circling its periphery rather than crossing over it. A transparent 24-hour ring rotates with the globe, lining up against a fixed Roman-numeral chapter ring to read a second time zone at a glance, the red 12 and red 24 marking noon and midnight respectively.

The name carries real weight behind the design. John Arnold's marine chronometers went to sea with explorers including James Cook and Sir John Franklin, instruments built for navigators who needed to know exactly where they stood relative to the rest of the world. The Globetrotter is the modern descendant of that same problem, solved for the wrist instead of the ship's log.

Automatic movement, sapphire crystal, steel case on alligator strap. Like new condition, complete with original box and papers.

Coming to our auction: A Century of Watchmaking: One Collector's Journey, 1923 - 2026.

📅 2 to 6 October

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