Reference · Brand References

Brand References.

Watches whose makers publish their specifications here and in the Watch Vault Archive application. Add one to your collection and its case, dial and movement figures come straight from the maker's own sheet.

List your watch See an example page

Inaugural 1-year release cycle

The launch catalog: ten places.

Ten Brand References, selected before Watch Vault Archive launches in Winter 2027. Each confirmed maker's watch appears here, and in the application's Brand Reference Catalog.

Make one of the ten yours.

For independent watchmakers and microbrands: a reference page here, and your watch built into the application's catalog, where a collector adds it to their own collection in one step.

How to list your watch

Independent references

Real watches, from the maker's published figures.

Pages built from a maker's own public specifications, with original photography, without the maker's involvement. They hold none of the ten places.

MONTA

Oceanking

60-minute ceramic bezel, date, black dial. Caliber M-22 on a Sellita SW300 base, 300 m.

Sinn

556 I RS

Glossy black dial, red seconds hand, 38.5 mm satinized steel. Sellita SW200-1, 20 bar.

Rolex

Explorer

Black dial, 3-6-9 numerals, Calibre 3230. In Oystersteel at 36 mm and 40 mm.

Hamilton

Khaki Field Mechanical

Black dial, hand-wound H-50 with an 80-hour reserve. In 36, 38 and 42 mm.

In the application

The same catalog, built in.

In Watch Vault Archive, open Explore Brand Reference Catalog on the first screen, or Browse Brand Reference Catalog in the Data room. Choose a watch and press Add to my collection: the maker's figures fill in, and you add only what is yours, such as the serial number and the date you bought it.