The vintage watch archive
Find out what your watch is. Then sell it to the dealers who know it best.
Archiva documents vintage watches reference by reference, with the specifications, variants and tells that collectors and specialist dealers rely on. Start with what is engraved on the case back.
Cartier · Tank Louis Cartier
Tank Louis Cartier — Paris
Ref. 78086
Inherited
What is this watch?
Turn it over, type the number on the case back, and the archive takes you to the exact reference, its variants and what it is worth today.
Identify →Collecting
Know it before you buy.
Reference-level histories, specifications and the tells that separate original examples from serviced or assembled ones.
Browse the archive →Selling
Net offers you choose from, escrow protected.
Specialist dealers bid on your watch, masked. You see each offer as the amount you keep, choose one or none, and a licensed escrow service holds the funds until the dealer has the watch in hand.
Value or sell →In the archive
Omega and Rolex in research
Cartier
19 model families · 62 references
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Omega
Constellation and Seamaster first
In research
Rolex
Datejust and Day-Date first
In research
- 19
- Model families
- 62
- Reference pages
- 126
- Documented variants
- 21
- References photographed