Getting it
From the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store.
A native application for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later, macOS 12 Monterey or later) and Windows 10 version 2004 or later, 64-bit, arriving in Early 2027. It will be published through the platform stores rather than as a file to download from here — installed, updated and reinstalled the same way as everything else on your machine.
Apple Silicon Macs.
Built natively for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 and later). Requires macOS 12 Monterey or later. Intel Macs are not supported.
Windows 10 version 2004 or later, 64-bit.
Installed from the Microsoft Store. No runtime to install first and no background service left running afterwards.
No iPhone, iPad, Android or web version.
Desktop only, and deliberately — a synced mobile companion would require a server holding a copy of your collection, which is the specific thing this application exists to avoid. The reasoning in full.
Watch Vault Tracker, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
A separate app that records which watch you wear, free for 30 days, then $4.99 once, coming Early 2027. It never connects to Watch Vault Archive; a list of watches can move between the two as a file you carry.
Watch Vault Insurance.
Dedicated coverage for collectors’ watches, through an established insurance partner. Coming 2027.
The store listings are not open yet
Watch Vault Archive arrives in Early 2027 on the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store. Rather than put a button here that leads nowhere, this is the honest state of things.
No warning to click past.
Applications distributed through the stores are signed and checked by Apple and Microsoft before they are listed, so there is no Gatekeeper block, no “Windows protected your PC,” and no right-click → Open. It opens the way anything else from the store opens.
Handled by the store, not by the application.
The application has no updater of its own and never checks for one. New versions arrive the same way every other store application updates, on your machine’s own schedule and under your own settings.
On a new machine, years later.
The store keeps the record that you own it, so reinstalling does not depend on finding an installer, an email or a licence key. Your collection is separate from all of that — it lives in an encrypted backup you keep, and restoring one is never gated.
Before you start — two things worth knowing
The application opens locked and asks for a passphrase immediately; there is no “set this up later,” because later would mean storing your collection unprotected in the meantime. And the recovery key shown during setup is the only other thing that can ever open your collection. On a Mac with Touch ID you can choose to unlock with your fingerprint as well, but only on that Mac, and only after setting it up with your passphrase. Write it down, on paper, where your important documents live. There is no reset.