{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rolex-cosmograph-daytona-116500ln","title":"Rolex Daytona 116500LN","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Daytona was introduced in 1963 and named for the Florida speedway, built around a tachymetric scale that lets a driver read average speed over a measured distance. For its first two decades it sold poorly. The collector market's later reassessment of those early references turned it into the most closely watched chronograph Rolex makes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 116500LN arrived in 2016 and was the first steel Daytona fitted with a Cerachrom bezel, the tachymetric scale moulded into black ceramic and filled with platinum rather than printed on steel. The 40mm case is unchanged in its proportions from the reference it replaced. This example carries the black dial with contrasting light registers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalibre 4130 has powered the Daytona since 2000 and remains one of the more elegantly resolved chronograph movements in series production, using a vertical clutch and column wheel with a reduced part count and a seventy-two hour power reserve. Water resistance is 10 ATM.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Oyster bracelet is fitted with the Oysterlock safety clasp and Easylink extension, allowing five millimetres of adjustment without tools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRolex replaced this reference in 2023 with the 126500LN, closing a seven-year production run. This example dates to 2022 and is offered as a full set in very good condition, and, like every watch Uptown Exchange lists, has been authenticated and inspected before being offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562712862790,"sku":"116500LN","price":26900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7255\/2518\/files\/plyy1irpvnc4-j073kpj1wfjlso0ivzyhhvl9-ExtraLarge.jpg?v=1793352650"},{"product_id":"rolex-day-date-40-228239","title":"Rolex Day-Date 228239","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Day-Date arrived in 1956 as the first wristwatch to display the date alongside the day of the week spelled out in full. Rolex has only ever made it in precious metal, and the association it acquired with heads of state and company chairmen gave the model the name by which its bracelet is still known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 228239 is the 40mm generation introduced in 2015, cased in 18ct white gold with a fluted bezel. The olive green dial with applied Roman numerals is among the more distinctive dial options Rolex offered in this reference, and it reads as considerably more restrained in white gold than the same dial would in yellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalibre 3255 is part of the fourth-generation movement family Rolex began rolling out in 2015, with the Chronergy escapement, a blue Parachrom hairspring and a seventy-hour power reserve. It represented a meaningful improvement in both accuracy and service interval over the 3155 it replaced. Water resistance is 10 ATM.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe President bracelet was designed alongside the original Day-Date in 1956 and has never been offered on a steel Rolex. Its semi-circular three-piece links and concealed Crownclasp are specific to this model line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is offered with its original box and papers, less the white tag, in used condition graded Good, and, like every watch Uptown Exchange lists, has been authenticated and inspected before being offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562712928326,"sku":"228239","price":40900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7255\/2518\/files\/3wa3rcrex9sd-bnk3w4qzc9sz1dtoibe6de9v-ExtraLarge.jpg?v=1793352649"},{"product_id":"rolex-explorer-ii-16570","title":"Rolex Explorer II 16570","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Explorer II was introduced in 1971 for cave explorers and polar researchers — people who lose track of whether it is day or night — with a fixed 24-hour bezel and an additional hand to read against it. The first reference, the 1655, sold badly enough that it is now among the more sought-after Rolex sports references.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 16570 ran from 1989 to 2011, one of the longest production runs of any modern Rolex, in a 40mm steel case with a fixed engraved 24-hour bezel. This example dates to 1998, which places it in the tritium period before Rolex moved to Luminova. Tritium dials on the 16570 are increasingly difficult to find in good order and are the detail collectors of this reference look for first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalibre 3185 powered the reference through most of its life before Rolex switched to the 3186 in the later years of production, with a fifty-hour power reserve and 10 ATM water resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Oyster bracelet is steel with a folding clasp, in the three-piece link construction Rolex uses across its professional models.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is offered as a full set in very good condition — box and papers on a watch of this age are considerably harder to come by than the watch itself — and, like every watch Uptown Exchange lists, has been authenticated and inspected before being offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562712961094,"sku":"16570","price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7255\/2518\/files\/29629jxohdfu-z3nzgzo7pd2ttan0rpaqt0v0-ExtraLarge.jpg?v=1793352692"},{"product_id":"patek-philippe-annual-calendar-chronograph-5905-1a-001","title":"Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Chronograph 5905\/1A-001","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatek Philippe patented the annual calendar in 1996, and in doing so created a complication that had not previously existed. A perpetual calendar accounts for leap years through a mechanism of considerable complexity; a simple calendar needs correcting five times a year. The annual calendar sits between them, requiring a single adjustment each March, and it has become one of the few genuinely new complications of the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 5905\/1A-001 pairs that calendar with a flyback chronograph in a 42mm steel case, and the \u003cem\u003e\/1A\u003c\/em\u003e in the reference denotes the integrated steel bracelet. The green sunburst dial is free of applied numerals, with day, date and month shown through three apertures beneath twelve and a single subdial at six o'clock. Patek introduced this green execution in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside is Calibre CH 28-520 QA 24H, a self-winding column-wheel chronograph with vertical clutch, carrying the annual calendar module and a fifty-five hour power reserve. Water resistance is 3 ATM, appropriate to a watch of this complication rather than a tool piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe integrated bracelet was designed for this case and cannot be substituted, which places the 5905\/1A in a small group of Patek references offered on steel rather than leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is offered as a full set in very good condition, and, like every watch Uptown Exchange lists, has been authenticated and inspected before being offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562713026630,"sku":"5905\/1A-001","price":45900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7255\/2518\/files\/rbm7t0luktwj-0zzqjc5605vt6hdq19jj9oe1-ExtraLarge.jpg?v=1793352648"},{"product_id":"audemars-piguet-royal-oak-chronograph-26240st","title":"Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph 26240ST.OO.1320ST.06","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Royal Oak arrived in 1972 as a deliberate provocation: a steel sports watch priced above the gold dress watches of its day, drawn by Gérald Genta and built around an octagonal bezel secured by eight exposed hexagonal screws. Fifty years later it is the model the entire integrated-bracelet category is measured against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 26240ST is the 41mm Selfwinding Chronograph, produced in 2022 for the Royal Oak's fiftieth anniversary year. The steel case carries the alternating brushed and polished surfaces that define the model, and the black dial is worked in the Grande Tapisserie pattern that has been a Royal Oak signature since the original. Three registers and a date aperture sit within it without crowding the layout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePower comes from Calibre 4401, the integrated flyback chronograph movement Audemars Piguet developed in-house and introduced in 2019. Unlike a modular chronograph built on a base movement, it was designed as a chronograph from the outset, with a column wheel, vertical clutch and a seventy-hour power reserve. Water resistance is 5 ATM.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe integrated steel bracelet tapers from the case in the manner Genta specified, each link individually finished with the same brushed-and-polished treatment as the case. It remains among the more difficult bracelets in the industry to execute, and is a substantial part of what the watch costs to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnniversary-year examples carry the commemorative oscillating weight visible through the caseback. This one is offered as a full set in used condition, graded Good, and, like every watch Uptown Exchange lists, has been authenticated and inspected before being offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audemars Piguet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562713059398,"sku":"26240ST.OO.1320ST.06","price":52900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7255\/2518\/files\/iyog0fumznhv-33dy0mwwo69h1c2jggynguem-ExtraLarge.jpg?v=1794174354"},{"product_id":"christopher-ward-c1-bel-canto-viola","title":"Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Viola","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Ward was founded in 2004 on a direct-to-consumer model, selling Swiss-made watches without the retail margin stacked on top. For most of its first two decades that produced competent, well-priced watches that nobody argued about. The Bel Canto changed the conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased in 2022, it is a chiming watch — a sonnerie au passage that strikes a single note on the hour — at a price roughly two orders of magnitude below what a chiming complication normally costs. The mechanism is left exposed on the dial side, hammer and gong visible, which is the correct decision for a watch whose entire argument is that you can see and hear what it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is the purple-dialled execution in a 41mm titanium case, running Calibre FS01, Christopher Ward's chiming module built on a Sellita base, with a thirty-eight hour power reserve and 3 ATM water resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is offered with its original bracelet and an aftermarket rubber strap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch is unworn and offered as a full set, and, like every watch Uptown Exchange lists, has been authenticated and inspected before being offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Ward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562713092166,"sku":null,"price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/7255\/2518\/files\/rmfalqab917f-zugr9trvc0rkp4z2fw0o28kn-ExtraLarge.jpg?v=1793352694"},{"product_id":"m-a-d-editions-m-a-d-1-time-to-love","title":"M.A.D. 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