Kartel Studio

St Andrews · Scotland

The Home of Modern
Scottish Watchmaking

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 St Andrews Collection

Four original works

Each limited to eighteen hand-painted originals. Once an edition is complete, the work is retired — forever.

The Royal & The Bridge

The Royal & The Bridge

£1,200 · Edition of 18
The Clubhouse

The Clubhouse

£1,200 · Edition of 18
West Sands Evening

West Sands Evening

£1,300 · Edition of 18
The 18th Fairway

The 18th Fairway

£1,200 · Edition of 18
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 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.

Private Commissions

The most personal thing we make

A person, a place, a moment — painted by hand onto a dial, and worn for a lifetime.

Our Grandad
Private commission

Our Grandad

England · World Cup 2026
Private commission

England · World Cup 2026

Neymar
Private commission

Neymar

The Old Course · The 18th
Private commission

The Old Course · The 18th

Reserved by request

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

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Hand-painted in St Andrews · 9 Church Street, Fife, KY16 9NW