Watch Desk

One master database: collection, candidates, research, and rank

Operations
Saved locally

Every watch in one rankable database.

Candidates and the collection share one master list with research, variants, media, and citations attached. Everything stays in this file until you export a backup.

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Filters

Personal-fit lens & buy-first order

weights, rules, and the value model

Eight editable weights. They recalculate the fit score live and never overwrite your manual rank.

Buy-first order

Build variety under $3,000. Buy first includes only candidates with a saved purchase price below $3,000. Grails and watches beyond the current budget stay in the database with their own tiers, outside the buying calculation. Your rank is compared only within the attainable list.

Buy the cheaper one first when the ratings are close. Each attainable candidate gets a quality score from your rank, personal fit, and execution, then loses points for price. The value weight controls the price penalty. Existing weights are preserved.

Personal rules and current thinking

Collector profile

what you're drawn to, computed from your own ranking — no AI involved

Discover

the agent proposes watches you don't track yet, from your profile and ranking

Master database

Ranks are yours alone. Provisional rows keep a deterministic order until you place them. The retired diver-research list is not imported.

Drag candidate rows to reorder, or expand a row and use the ↑ ↓ rank buttons. Set an exact rank number in Edit.

Add watch

Only brand and model are required. Leave unresolved references as Unknown — the research fields stay attached to the record.

Reorders within the selected tier. Grails and the regular wishlist each start at #1.

Sets the displayed price, buying rank, and $3,000 cutoff. Clear it to use the researched price. Choose a tier above to move a watch out of Grail.

Keep price notes here. Use Purchase price override above to change the displayed amount.

Edit personal-fit lens

Weights must total 100. They recalculate personal-fit scores immediately and never rewrite your manual rank.

Add + research

The site agent researches the watch on the web, scores it against your taste model, and adds it as an unranked candidate. It never touches your ranks, tiers, or notes. Usually takes one to three minutes.

Gemini costs more. Providers are tried fastest first, with automatic fallback.

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