Magrette Timepiece is a boutique watch company based in Auckland (City of Sails), New Zealand. (Marca de relojes boutique de NZ)

 

We aspire to bring the personal touch into all the timepieces we create. We only produce restricted batches at a time so we can focus on creating quality product for our customers.

 

The Background

For me it started with a birthday present from my Mother in 1975 at the age of seven. A watch...a timepiece...a work of art! It had a white face with a white rubber strap & was housed in a white case with an automatic movement. I can still remember the lovely vanilla smell of the strap. No one else had anything like it.

From there on my passion grew & I started my collection. It was made easier as the rest of the family were just as obsessed as me. My younger brother would wear 4-6 watches on his wrists to try & synchronize them all in time. He had a huge collection of clocks & drawers full of watches. You would walk past his room and hear a loud ticking & even chimes in the middle of the night. Ticking I didn't mind but a chime was pushing it! I dedicated my first Magrette watch to my brother Marcus McAsey (1969 – 1990).

My collection didn't really start growing until I started work. In the early days it consisted mostly of fashion watches & brand names. In the 1990s I formed a passion for 1940s military style watches & 1970s dive watches. I think that is where most of my influences have come from with regards to the MAGRETTE brand.