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Pc. 1950s / jumbo calibre 022-18
The Record Watch
A jumbo Record Genève: approximately 37 mm across, unusually flat, and built around a pressed waffle dial, bullet-shaped indices, knife-edge lugs, and Record’s calibre 022-18.View details
A35 mm / first-generation Overseas
Vacheron Constantin Overseas 42050
A 35 mm first-generation Vacheron Constantin Overseas, reference 42050: COSC-certified ultra-thin calibre 1310, 150 metres of water resistance, and the original 1990s integrated bracelet.View details
E1960s–70s / family heirloom
Jinji & ZhuanShi
A pair of Chinese wristwatches — a Jinji (金鸡) from the Shanghai Watch Factory and a ZhuanShi (钻石) from the Shanghai Stopwatch Factory — bought new by Liping's grandfather in the 1960s–70s, when each cost around 60 to 70 RMB, roughly a month of wages for a worker who did good work.View details
Fc. 1957 / P453/3B
Vacheron Constantin Ref. 4600
A later-production Vacheron & Constantin ref. 4600 of about 1957: a 36.8 mm gold dress watch with alpha hands, pearl-dot minute track, and calibre P453/3B, movement 521096.View details
GQuartz Sectora / 1980s
Jean d’Eve Sectora
A large-format gold-tone Jean d’Eve Sectora with a white dial and an integrated articulated bracelet, showing the coaxial double-retrograde hours and minutes that define the family.View details
HFirst Omega in Space
Omega Speedmaster FOIS
The first-generation Speedmaster “First Omega in Space,” reference 311.32.40.30.01.001: a 39.7 mm straight-lug tribute to Wally Schirra’s personal CK2998, photographed here on a Forstner flat link with a slim Spiralwinder exhibition back over calibre 1861.View detailsWristwatches
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Jc. 1990 / quartz complete calendar
Zenith Ref. 27.0030.398
A c. 1990 Zenith quartz complete calendar — pointer date read by a red-tipped central hand, day and month in twin apertures at twelve, and small seconds at six — documented through nine archive photographs.View details
Kc. 1995–98 / Ref. 30.0240.400
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero
A mid-1990s gold Chronomaster, reference 30.0240.400/01: 40 mm of 18K yellow gold around a pressed silk dial and the El Primero calibre 400 still beating ten times a second.View details
Lc. 1956–57 / Grade 719
Lord Elgin Chevron Ref. 7775
Inside this gold-filled flying saucer resides one of Elgin's most inventive postwar movements—a twenty-one-jewel mechanism that transforms an ordinary 13/0 caliber into a theatrical exercise in mechanical digital timekeeping.View details
MAutomatic / Omega Seamaster
Omega Seamaster
An Omega Seamaster automatic, documented through the frontpage photograph, dial detail views, and a motion film that turns the watch in real light.View details
N1996 / 18k gold / manual chronograph
Heuer Carrera CS3140
A numbered 1996 Heuer Carrera re-edition in solid 18k yellow gold, pairing a compact 36mm case and decimal-minutes dial with the hand-wound Lemania 1873.View details
OCirca 1968–1970 / 18K yellow gold
Zenith Zenitissimo
A Zenith Zenitissimo from around 1968 to 1970 — a slim square of 18K yellow gold that asks almost nothing of the wrist it rests on, and returns a whole day of quiet, reliable time.View detailsPocket watches
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BApprox. 1963–1966 / Swiss-made
Heuer Ref. 11.204 Rattrapante Pocket Chronograph
An early-to-mid-1960s Heuer Ref. 11.204 split-seconds pocket chronograph fitted with the 19-ligne Valjoux 76R.View details
Cc. 1940 / Geneva movement, New York case
Vacheron & Constantin Pocket Watch
A circa-1940 Vacheron Constantin dress pocket watch: Calibre 439, movement 440101, finished in Geneva and cased in American fourteen-karat gold through Longines-Wittnauer.View details
DInherited as a teenager
Elgin Pocket Watch
A father-and-son memory: the Elgin pocket watch that began the collection.View details
ISaint-Imier / late 1930s–early 1940s
Berna Swiss Pocket Chronograph
A hand-wound Berna Swiss pocket chronograph with a black multi-scale dial, documented through its exterior, crown, and open movement.View detailsClocks
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