The collection

Thirteen pieces, one still missing

Each watch is here for a reason: the dial, the history, the story, or all three. Photography is my own and arrives piece by piece; the watches are not going anywhere.

Reference image of a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 6265, silver dial with tropical registers

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Ref 6265 · 1974

Cosmograph Daytona "Panda"

The one everything else answers to

Reference image of a Rolex Oyster Perpetual 6564 with honeycomb dial on a leather strap

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Ref 6564 · 1955

Oyster Perpetual

The oldest thing I own

Reference image of a Rolex Submariner 5513 with aged tritium lume

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Ref 5513 · 1981

Toasted tritium, honest miles

Reference image of a Rolex Day-Date 40 228235 in rose gold with sundust Roman dial

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Ref 228235 · 2019

For over-the-top only

Reference image of a Rolex Day-Date 36 18238 in yellow gold with white Roman dial

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Ref 18238 · 1996

The President, restrained

Reference image of a Rolex Datejust 36 16234 with white Roman dial on a jubilee bracelet

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Ref 16234 · 1991

The everyday benchmark

Reference image of a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 15505

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Ref 15505 · 1984

Oyster Perpetual Date

Quiet by design

Reference image of a two-tone Rolex Sky-Dweller 326933 with black dial

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Ref 326933 · 2021

The modern complication

16220 Still looking

STILL LOOKING · Ref 16220

Rolex Datejust 36

The one my father would have earned

Also in the collection

74033Photography in progress

Tudor · Ref 74033 · 1994

Tudor Prince Date

Where it all started, in a mail room

Q1272510Photography in progress

Jaeger-LeCoultre · Ref Q1272510 · 2018

Master Ultra Thin Small Seconds

The one that never leaves my wrist

Reference image of a Cartier Santos Large WSSA0030 with graduated blue dial

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Cartier · Ref WSSA0030 · 2022

The one Cartier got right

Reference image of a Hamilton Khaki ETO quartz chronograph (sibling reference H776120)

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Hamilton · Ref H776121 · 2005

Where it truly began

Reference image of a two-tone Gucci 9000M with ivory dial

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Gucci · Ref 9000M · 1990

Dad's everyday watch