The Journal

Our guides answer practical questions: how a bag is made, how a watch is sized, what our specialists check. The Journal is where we write more freely. It is about the pleasure of fine things that have already had one life and are ready for another, about the houses and craftspeople behind them, and about how to live with them well.

We write as we work: plainly, without hurry, and only about what we know. You will not find trend forecasts or lists of must-haves here. You will find essays on why certain designs endure, notes from our studio, and the occasional argument for buying less and buying better.

Read

• The case for buying pre-loved: why a piece with a past is often the better choice, for the owner and for the piece itself.
• Quiet luxury, properly understood: what the phrase really means, and why it has more to do with craft than with the absence of logos.
• What makes a design endure: the qualities shared by the bags, watches and jewels that are still made, and still wanted, decades after their debut.
• A vintage watch on the wrist: on the small rituals and rewards of wearing a watch older than you are.

From the guides

If you are looking for something practical, start with how to buy pre-owned luxury safely, our authentication guides, our model guides or our care guides. Or simply browse the shop: every piece in it has been examined in our hands, photographed as it is and described honestly.