A new desk: The Time Machine — and how this house works
The Moonwatch from 1981 forward, a sibling desk across the hall, and the method both are built on.
A new desk opened at this house this week: The Time Machine.
True vintage ends with the Moon generation. The Time Machine covers what came next — the Moonwatch from 1981 forward, every example at least 25 years old. On the desk: the 145.0022, the bridge; the 3590.50, tritium and calibre 861, the last of the old recipe; the 3570.50, the 1861 debut; the sapphire pair; and the Speedmaster Reduced, the entry point. One rule, applied without exception: a watch enters the Time Machine when its own production year turns 25 — and the door rolls forward every January, each new year admitting a new class.
Its letter is The Time Machine Brief — a monthly price-and-data letter: medians, verified sold prices, and new-to-market highlights across the desk. The founding list opens soon; this free list hears first.
Across the hall, the sibling archive opened its own neo-vintage desk: The Five-Digit Files at The Geneva Papers™ — Rolex Professional from 1988 to the turn of the century, under the same rule, published by this house. If your curiosity runs to Geneva: https://thegenevapapers.com/five-digit-files/?utm_source=buttondown&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=next-25
A word on how both desks are built, because it's the standard your Saturday reports already run on. Layer one is the public record — listings, auction results, history — swept nightly and assembled reference by reference, under the honesty rules printed in every report: a bid is never an asking price, a sale counts only when the source states it, a vanished listing is never a sale. Layer two is the media: photography in these publications is never scraped, lifted, or generated — it is licensed from the dealers and collectors who own it, in writing, with their name on it.
Public data, honestly aggregated. Private media, honorably licensed.
The Time Machine: https://speedmastergonzales.com/time-machine/?utm_source=buttondown&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=next-25 The founding list opens soon — founding members hear first, here.
— The Collector Speedmaster Gonzales™ — the Moonwatch, studied properly.
