My Full-Circle Moment with Alberta's Iconic Retailer, Henry Singer

Today is a first for Watchable as we welcome "new" watches into the Shop with the WMT x Henry Singer Cushion collection. Until now, we’ve built our reputation among collectors worldwide as a trusted destination for rare and collectible vintage and modern pre-worn timepieces, always guided by a passion for thoughtful design, quality craftsmanship, self-expression, and a compelling story. It’s those same principles that have led Watchable into each new chapter.   

WHAT ARE THE GOODS?

Together with Henry Singer, Alberta’s legacy luxury lifestyle and fashion retailer, we are excited be retailing their most recent collaboration with enthusiast favourite micro-brand, WMT Watches.

These original designs are available for purchase in the Watchable Shop today in Chocolate, Pine, and Salmon, or you can purchase the full set of all three, which includes a complimentary 3-piece leather watch box.

Discover them here:
1. Chocolate
2. Pine
3. Salmon
4. 3-Piece Set w. Complimentary Watch Box

At Watchable Shop, we have always strived to curate objects that feel thoughtful, personal, and genuinely meaningful to us. We make a special effort to bring you pieces that are uniquely special, interesting, collectible, and when possible, watches with a story behind them. We take this same approach to our partnerships (as done previously through the Watchable Community Series). The people are important - perhaps just as important as the watches themselves. When the right relationships are in place, the rest follows. So, when the opportunity arose to work with Henry Singer, it immediately resonated with me on a personal level.

WHY SO PERSONAL?

I grew up in Calgary, a city of roughly one million people nestled between the Rocky Mountains and the Alberta foothills. As a kid growing up in the 1980s and 1990’s, Henry Singer was a household name, having recently opened its first Calgary location as part of its expansion beyond Edmonton. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that Henry Singer played a small but meaningful role in my own transition into manhood. It was, after all, the destination where I was outfitted for my bar mitzvah.

At the time, Calgary, and Alberta more broadly, still felt somewhat removed from the larger international landscape of art, music, entertainment, fashion, and luxury. As a landlocked city shaped heavily by the boom-and-bust rhythm of the oil and gas industry, Calgary always seemed to occupy a unique middle ground: a place with the warmth, and hospitality of a small town, but also the ambition, entrepreneurial spirit, work ethic, and style of a major metropolis. There was a genuine appreciation for craftsmanship, design, and quality, even if access to the broader world of luxury often felt geographically distant. I believe this distance naturally made us more curious, and maybe even enticed us to work a little harder to access the experiences, and things we wanted.

Since its founding in 1938, Henry Singer played an important role in bridging that gap, introducing Albertans to a wider world of taste, design, and craftsmanship that might otherwise have felt slightly out of reach.

FLASH-FORWARD TO TODAY

In recent years, despite now living in Toronto, my attention has increasingly been drawn back to Henry Singer through what felt like a growing embrace of enthusiast-driven watch culture within their retail identity. Much of that momentum has come under the leadership of Jordan Singer, now representing the third generation at the helm of this iconic family business. I was especially excited to see their recent collaborations with one of my favourite micro-brands, Italian-based Unimatic, with a series of collaborative pieces. In my mind, these pieces represented a thoughtful and genuine move towards bringing distinctive enthusiast-focused watches into the Henry Singer fold.

WMT x Henry Singer

What made their most recent and first collaborative release with WMT especially charming for me (aside from its clear Patek Philippe Ellipse inspiration), is that it subtly recalls the spirit of the great retailers of the past - an era when influential retailers left their signature alongside the watchmaker’s, creating pieces that reflected both the maker and the curator behind them. Examples of these vintage double signed watches are extremely collectible today. It’s this old-world philosophy that feels very much alive within this collaboration, and for me, that's part of the story these watches tell, and why they are so compelling. 

To be able to share this particular collection through Watchable Shop, particularly as our first official retail partnership, feels like a true full-circle moment. 

The set is available now for purchase in the online Watchable Shop. Have a look, grab a few, and let me know what you think. I’m certain you will enjoy these watches as much as I do. 

Happy hunting,
Brent | Curator, Watchable Shop