Primer
How to read a reference number
Five or six characters that tell you the case, the bezel, the bracelet and the year, once you know where the seams are.
The Dials desk · 2 min read
The watch reference
Every watch, described the same way.
41,995 models from 199 houses: case, calibre, dial and bracelet recorded to one specification, so two watches can finally be compared side by side.
- Models
- 41,995
- Brands
- 199
- Specification fields
- 40+
The houses
Brands with the deepest catalogues
Latest additions
Just catalogued
Richard MilleRM 71-02 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman
RM 71-020 listings
Richard MilleRM 71-01 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman
RM 71-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 70-01 Tourbillon Alain Prost
RM 70-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 69 Tourbillon Erotic
RM 690 listings
Richard MilleRM 68-01 Tourbillon Cyril Kongo
RM 68-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 63-02 Automatic Winding Worldtimer
RM 63-020 listings
Richard MilleRM 63-01 Automatic Winding Dizzy Hands
RM 63-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 62-01 Manual Winding Tourbillon vibrating alarm ACJ
RM 62-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 61-01 Manual Winding Yohan Blake
RM 61-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 60-01 Automatic Winding Flyback Chronograph Regatta
RM 60-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 59-01 Tourbillon Yohan Blake
RM 59-010 listings
Richard MilleRM 58-01 Manual Winding Tourbillon Worldtimer
RM 58-010 listings
The journal
Notes on watches, and on cataloguing them
- Behind the catalogue
The case for the crop
Why every watch in this catalogue is photographed against nothing at all.
- Field notes
Six movements worth knowing by name
The calibres that turn up under a hundred different dials, and what to listen for in each.
- Buying
What a listing actually tells you
Condition grades, service history, and the three words that should make you ask for more photographs.