Watches: 10 Years, 10 Watchmakers: Introducing The MR PORTER Anniversary Collection

This year, MR PORTER is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To mark this milestone, we turned to 10 of our favourite watchmakers. Partly because, where the passage of time is concerned, there’s no one better and partly because we have long extolled the virtues of a watch as the perfect way to commemorate life’s major achievements. Some of these esteemed brands are almost as fresh-faced as ourselves. Ressence marked its 10th birthday just last year, while Bell & Ross and Roger Dubuis are children of the 1990s. Others, such as Jaeger-LeCoultre, Cartier and IWC have us well and truly outpaced. What’s remarkable, when you think about it, is how naturally this centuries-old industry has flourished in the digital world. In 2011 the word “blockchain” was first added to our dictionaries and I’ll wager few of us had any clue what it meant. This year we’re introducing an incomparable range of restored Vacheron Constantin vintage watches, each with a blockchain-enabled certificate of authenticity. Talk about the meeting of analogue and digital worlds.

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