About
The collector behind Reveliers.
Reveliers started in 2026 because the watch communities I spent time in had begun to feel narrow. The same hype pieces every week, the same resale chatter. Meanwhile, so much of what makes collecting interesting stayed off-screen: vintage references, microbrand experiments, odd details, quiet pieces, and the watches people actually wear.
There was also the practical side. Watches carry a lot of context: who you bought it from, what you paid, when it was serviced, how it's running on the timegrapher, the story of how it came to you. That context lives in emails, spreadsheets, photos buried in a camera roll, and occasionally in your head. When you actually need it (service, appraisal, insurance claim, sale, passing it down) it's scattered across half a dozen places.
Reveliers is the place that holds it. Structured, private by default, exportable in a shape useful for service, appraisal, insurance, or resale. The community side exists because part of the joy of collecting is other collectors, but it's small on purpose and not the main act. Most of the app is your own private vault.
What Reveliers stands for
- Collector-first, not market-first. The point of Reveliers is the watches you own and the collectors you trust, not the next resale spread.
- Anti-noise, not anti-community. The community part is small on purpose. Less haul-video performance, more collector stories, personal context, and references you might not have searched for.
- Your collection is yours. I cannot read what's in your vault, and I built the architecture so I cannot.
- Privacy is not a marketing word. Private vault records are encrypted on your device before they are stored. The key lives in your iCloud Keychain. The server holds opaque ciphertext for those records. Community, profile, and account data are handled separately and described in the Privacy Policy.
- Quiet over loud. Reveliers is not optimised for engagement metrics or feed-time. Spend ten minutes a week and get value; if you don't open the app for a month nothing rots.
- No ads, ever. No selling data. No training external models on your content without your explicit opt-in.
- Honest tradeoffs. If I ship a feature, I ship the failure modes too. The encryption is uncompromising, which means if you lose your Apple ID with no recovery, your vault is gone. That tradeoff is documented and intentional.
Who builds Reveliers
Right now: me. Reveliers is solo work, which is both why it's opinionated and why your feedback shapes what comes next. The roadmap is the things real collectors ask for, in the order they ask for them most.
If you want to know what I think a better place for collectors looks like, the home page is the long version. If you want to know what I'd build next, tell me in the app's Send feedback sheet or email [email protected].
Where to find more
For the full feature breakdown, the home page covers it. For privacy commitments, the Privacy Policy. For the rules of using the Service, the Terms of Service. For help getting something working, Support. For press inquiries, Press & media.