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St Andrews · Scotland

Hand-painted, individually numbered timepieces — created in a studio you can stand inside.

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Introduction

We don't manufacture thousands of identical watches. We create small collections through the year — each one designed, finished and painted by hand, in the studio itself.

Every watch tells a story — the light over the Old Course, the coastline, the changing seasons. No collection is ever repeated. Once an edition is complete, it belongs to the archive.

Watches not simply owned, but collected, remembered, and passed on.

The Inaugural Work

KSTA.001 — The Royal & The Bridge

The first of six original works in The St Andrews Collection.

KSTA.001 · Inaugural
The Royal & The Bridge
The St Andrews Collection

The Royal & The Bridge

One of eighteen originals

The Swilcan Bridge and the Royal & Ancient Clubhouse beneath an expressive Scottish sky — the inaugural work of the collection.

Collection

St Andrews

Catalogue

KSTA.001

Finish

Steel · Automatic

Edition

One of 18

£1,200 · one of eighteen.
Reserved by request — each confirmed personally

Reserved7 of 18
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The Reservation

How you come to own one of 18

i

Join the list

Works open first to the list. When one is released, you hear before anyone else.

ii

Reserve your number

Register your interest in one of eighteen. We confirm each reservation personally — your number is then yours alone.

iii

Painted for you

Your dial is painted by hand in the St Andrews studio. Weeks, not minutes — slowness is the point.

iv

Delivered & archived

It arrives numbered and certified. When all eighteen are complete, the work is retired, forever.

The St Andrews Collection

Six original works

Each limited to eighteen hand-painted originals. Once all eighteen are complete, the work is permanently retired.

The Royal & The Bridge
KSTA.001

The Royal & The Bridge

The inaugural work capturing the Swilcan Bridge and the Royal & Ancient Clubhouse beneath an expressive Scottish sky.

£1,200 · Edition of 18Details
Sunset at The Old Course
KSTA.003

Sunset at The Old Course

Golden evening light over the Old Course Hotel and Swilcan Bridge, preserving one of Scotland's most iconic views.

£1,200 · Edition of 18Details
The Clubhouse
KSTA.004

The Clubhouse

A tribute to the Royal & Ancient Clubhouse and the enduring heritage of St Andrews.

£1,200 · Edition of 18Details
West Sands Evening
KSTA.005

West Sands Evening

The calm of West Sands as the evening light settles across Scotland's famous coastline.

£1,300 · Edition of 18Details
The 18th Fairway
KSTA.006

The 18th Fairway

The emotion and tradition of the final walk along the 18th fairway at the Home of Golf.

£1,200 · Edition of 18Details
The Last Walk Home
KSTA.007

The Last Walk Home

The timeless crossing of the Swilcan Bridge, commemorating one of golf's greatest rituals.

£1,300 · Edition of 18Details
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The Studio

A window on Church Street

We paint in the window of our St Andrews studio, in full view of the town that made the game. Stop on the cobbles and you can watch a dial become a painting.

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The Craft

Each dial is a miniature oil painting

Layer on layer of impasto, built with the same brushes and pigments a landscape painter would use — then shrunk to the width of a wrist. Look closely and the brushstrokes are real.

The Presentation

Delivered as an object, not a product

Each watch arrives in a lacquered presentation box — the navy case, the cream bed, a numbered certificate of authenticity and the maker's mark. Everything about the way it reaches you says what the dial already says: this one was made for you, and for no one else.

The Kartel Studio presentation box
The Hand-Over

Some watches arrive in the post.
Yours is handed to you.

Where you can come to us, your watch is presented in person at the St Andrews studio — the box opened with you there, the piece lifted from its bed, the number and certificate placed in your hands. A quiet ceremony for a one-of-eighteen, because the moment you receive it should be worth as much as the object itself.

What Follows

St Andrews is the first collection, not the last.

Scotland follows — the Highlands, the castles, the coast. And private commissions: a place of your own, painted to order.

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Join the List

Eighteen of each. When they're gone, they're gone.

The list sees every work first, and reserves before the public. No noise — only the next painting.

Painted in St Andrews · Shipped worldwide