Marteau & Co watch auctions founder Arthur Touchot

Can a platform built around maker rights and deliberate curation shift how collectors and the timepiece market think about what creators are owed?

A three-grid collage of photos of wristwatches worn on a model wearing a striped dress shirt

Founded by Arthur Touchot and Leonard Pictet, the Geneva-based auction house is testing whether the secondary market for independent watches can be smaller, more curated and more favorable to the people who made them.

Marteau & Co watch auctions founder Arthur Touchot