Curated selections
Group watches by style, purpose, brand or personal significance.
Age for Icons
Turn every watch into a card worth sharing.
H4icons is an iOS app for watch collectors and professionals. Create premium watch cards, organize private collection records, build visual collections and share selected watches or collections with confidence.
iOS app — Coming soon to the App Store
By Ferdinand Berthoud — Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons
Watch Cards
One watch. One distinctive identity.
Transform the photographs and details of each watch into a refined digital card designed to be saved, presented and shared.
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Create Your Card
Create a card as distinctive as the watch.
Choose photographs, layouts, typography, colors and information blocks to create a card that reflects the identity of each piece.
Different layoutsCustom typographyColors and texturesFlexible information blocksSale and presentation detailsCollector-focused designs
Collections
Your collection, presented your way.
Bring your watches together in a visual collection that is easy to browse, organize and present.
Visual collection
Browse your watches through their cards instead of a conventional spreadsheet.
Flexible presentation
Create different selections for friends, collectors or clients.
Sharing
Share one watch or an entire collection.
Present a single watch, a curated selection or a complete collection through polished cards tailored to the audience you choose.
Privacy by Design
Share the collection, not your private records.
H4icons separates the information you present from the records you keep privately.
What you share
- Watch photographs
- Brand and model
- Year and specifications
- A short story or description
- Sale status and price when appropriate
What remains private
- Purchase documents
- Serial numbers
- Acquisition cost
- Warranty information
- Private notes
- Service documentation
- Total collection value
Built for You
Designed for collectors. Useful for professionals.
For Collectors
A personal visual archive.
Build a personal visual archive of the watches that define your collection. Preserve their details, create distinctive cards and share selected pieces without exposing private records.
For Professionals
A consistent presentation.
Present client watches, available pieces and curated selections with a consistent and professional visual identity.
Reports
Professional reports when you need them.
Generate organized collection documents for insurance, valuation, resale or personal records whenever you need them.
Behind every report is the private record behind each watch: provenance, documents, service history, valuations, accessories and notes.
View Sample ReportHow It Works
From watch to shareable card.
- 01
Add Your Watch
Photograph it and record the essential details.
- 02
Create Its Card
Choose a layout, typography, colors and information blocks.
- 03
Build Your Collection
Organize your watches into a private visual collection.
- 04
Share It Your Way
Share one watch, a curated selection or a professional presentation.
- 05
Preserve Its History
Keep provenance, documents, service records and valuations privately organized.
WHY H4?
A name shaped by precision.
In the eighteenth century, determining longitude at sea remained one of navigation’s greatest challenges. John Harrison devoted decades to creating a timekeeper precise enough to carry a fixed reference time across an ocean.
Completed in 1759, H4 was his fourth marine timekeeper. Unlike the large mechanisms that came before it, H4 resembled an oversized pocket watch and proved that portable precision timekeeping could work at sea.
Its success made time a tool for orientation, confidence and discovery. H4icons takes its name from that same pursuit of precision, persistence and lasting significance.
By Ferdinand Berthoud — Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons
Some watches tell time. Others become icons.
H4icons for iPhone
Your private watch collection, on iPhone.
H4icons is being developed for iOS to bring premium watch cards, visual collections and private records together on iPhone.
Coming soon to the App Store
Age for Icons
Some watches tell time.
Others become icons.
Create their cards. Preserve their stories. Share your collection.
Discover H4icons