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The Journal

Notes from the Ateliers

Craft, provenance and connoisseurship — dispatches from the workbenches of the House.

6 entries catalogued

Reading a Perpetual Calendar Complications Maison de Haute Horlogerie ★★★★★ Reading a Perpetual Calendar The most poetic of complications tracks the date, the day, the month and the leap year without adjustment until 2100. Here is how to read every subdial without touching the crown. 28 August 2026 Read → The Geneva Seal, Explained Provenance Maison de Haute Horlogerie ★★★★★ The Geneva Seal, Explained The Poinçon de Genève is the oldest guarantee in watchmaking — part origin mark, part covenant of finishing. What the hallmark promises, and what it does not. 14 August 2026 Read → Anatomy of a Floating Canvas Craft Kingsman & Sterling Tailors ★★★★★ Anatomy of a Floating Canvas The difference between a suit that drapes and one that hangs lies in a layer you will never see. Inside the hand-padded, floating horsehair canvas of a Savile Row coat. 30 July 2026 Read → Choosing Your First Bespoke Cloth Guidance Kingsman & Sterling Tailors ★★★★★ Choosing Your First Bespoke Cloth A first commission lives or dies by the cloth. A cutter's guidance on weight, weave and restraint — and why the flannel bunch is the wisest place to begin. 16 July 2026 Read → Caring for Morocco Leather Bindings Conservation L'Atelier des Bibliophiles ★★★★★ Caring for Morocco Leather Bindings Levant morocco is among the most durable skins ever brought to a binding — and the most easily ruined by good intentions. The archival ritual, and the myths to abandon. 28 June 2026 Read → How to Spot a True First Edition Collecting L'Atelier des Bibliophiles ★★★★★ How to Spot a True First Edition The words 'first edition' on a title page prove almost nothing. The points that separate a true first from a later printing — and how a collector reads them. 10 June 2026 Read →