Verification

Is it
the real one?

Scratch the panel on your certificate and enter the code with your reference. A code can only be claimed once — if it has been used already, this piece has been registered before, and we will tell you when.

Check your certificate

Nothing is shared publicly. Verification tells you whether the number, the code and the piece agree — and it is what ties the lifetime repair undertaking to your name rather than to the object.

What you are holding

The certificate,
and what it is for.

What is on it

Every piece leaves the bench with a card. On it: the model, the colourway and the finish as built; your edition number, from 001 to 035; the date it was made; and a reference in the form PS-AZUR-0017. The same number is laser-written in gold inside the temple of a frame, or stamped into the brass plate of a Coffret. The card and the piece are made to be read together.

The panel, and why it is scratched off

Under the silver panel is a code that has never been printed anywhere else and never travels with the piece in transit. Scratching it is how the house knows the card is in the hands of the person who took delivery, rather than photographed in a warehouse or copied from a listing. A code can be claimed once. If it has already been claimed, we will tell you when — and if the piece has genuinely changed hands, we transfer the record rather than refuse it.

What it protects against

A number on its own proves nothing: anyone can write 017 inside a temple. The number plus the code plus the register is what makes it checkable. It is the difference between a claim of scarcity and an edition you can audit. It also means a piece bought second hand can be checked before money changes hands, which is the point at which most of these questions get asked.

What it ties to

The lifetime repair undertaking attaches to the number, not to the owner. Hinges, screws, rivets and every piece of brass, for as long as the piece exists; relacquering and repolishing; reshaping and refitting, as often as you want it, free. A piece with no certificate and no registered number has nothing for the undertaking to attach to, which is why the card matters more than it looks. The undertaking in full →

If you have lost the card

Write to us with the number inside the temple and whatever you know about where the piece came from. The register is the record; the card is a copy of it. We reissue against the register, not against the card. Contact the house →