Breguet
Classique Tourbillon
In collection since 2025
The tourbillon architecture Daniel Roth drew for Breguet, still cut by hand, and the piece the rest of my collection quietly orbits.
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A collection with a point of view
I collect to wear, study and keep. A watch enters the collection because it adds a story, craft or complication that is not already represented. Pieces may occasionally leave as the collection evolves, but short-term resale is never the reason for buying.
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Owned, worn and still teaching me
Daniel Roth
Skeleton Chronograph
The same hands that drew my Breguet tourbillon, this time working for nobody but himself.
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Audemars Piguet
Code 11.59 Starwheel
A wandering-hours complication that clients refused to let die, in the case I always thought was the better looking of the two.
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Patek Philippe
World Time
In collection since 2026
My first Patek Philippe, a discontinued world timer with Hong Kong still printed on the city disc.
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Ulysse Nardin
San Marco Cutty Sark
A platinum cloisonné enamel dial from the years when Ulysse Nardin was quietly bringing that craft back.
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Lundis Bleus
Custom piece
In collection since 2026
My first fully customised watch, an enamel dial that refuses to stay one colour.
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Longines
Lindbergh Hour Angle
In collection since 2026
A navigation instrument from before GPS, with the last in-house Longines calibre of its era inside, full set.
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Andersen Genève
1884 World Time
In collection since 2026
The independent world timer that completes a line running from the Hour Angle to the 5130G.
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M.A.D.Editions
M.A.D.2 REDemption
In collection since 2026
The watch I lost four raffles for, until MB&F decided persistence should count for something.
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A. Lange & Söhne
Lange 1 Moonphase
The one Glashütte piece in a Swiss-heavy collection, and the dial I trust most when everything else feels loud.
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Audemars Piguet
Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin
The one steel sports watch I actually reach for, because it is the thinnest and the closest to the 1972 original.
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Chronoswiss
Régulateur
The first serially produced wristwatch regulator, from the same year Daniel Roth put his own name on a dial.
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Christopher Ward
Bel Canto
A chiming watch at a price that lets people hear one for the first time, and proof that high and low can share a box.
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Audemars Piguet
Code 11.59 Selfwinding
My first Code 11.59, bought for the case: steel, black ceramic and a smoked dial that reads differently at every angle.
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Collection Principles
01
Craft over status
A watch is chosen for what it brings in craft, mechanism or historical position, not for the name on the dial alone.
02
Coherence over accumulation
Every new piece should add a complication, a story or a watchmaking viewpoint that the collection does not already hold.
03
Ownership over speculation
I collect to wear, study and keep. Pieces may leave as the collection evolves, but short-term resale is never the reason for buying.