A register · 2026 edition
The one hundred maisons
Fashion, jewellery, horology, automobiles, beauty, hospitality and spirits — one hundred houses read the way Tiffany set a stone, Cartier drew a line, Rolex kept a time and Lamborghini cut a wedge. Every figure on this site names the publisher, the table and the year that published it, or it is not on this site.
The register · 2026 edition
- 100Maisons
- 7Ateliers
- 100Countries
- 100Reviews filed
One owner stands behind all of it: LABS publishes this register, builds labs.llc and runs the 10 review sites below. How the register works.
The reviews, reviewed
100 reviews from 10 review sites, filed by shelf
Ten sites test labs.llc tools against rivals they name: ten tools each, no tool reviewed twice. The register reads them the way it reads a maison, by what the tool is for. Nothing here is independent, and this page scores nothing.
- Earth 27
- Internet 19
- Utilities 13
- Sound 10
- Markets 9
- News 7
- Design 6
- Cities 3
- Words 3
- Games 2
- Labs 1
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Side by Side · the.co.im
Transit
A careful single-purpose reader of the MTA's own countdowns.
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Compare · ė.co
Courier
Choose Courier when the file must not touch anyone's server and you want proof it arrived whole; choose PairDrop or FilePizza when convenience matters more.
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The Index · sites.llc
Bikes
Bikes does a small job with discipline.
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The Long Read · internet.com.im
Radio
A tuner that would rather explain a silence than hide it.
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Best For · eriks.best
Crypto
Pick Crypto if you would rather see a dash than a number nobody can source.
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The Bench · the.com.im
Books
A clever shelf over a public catalogue; unfiltered, most of what it deals cannot be read.
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The Wire Test · the.net.im
Backgammon
Every rule check passed, and the dice code does what its comments claim.
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Lab Notes · láb.com
Gleason
New York–London 1.067×; Sydney–Santiago 2.264× longer on the paper.
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Screen Test · ė.tv
Grid
Grid is a small, exact window on two large datasets.
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Ink · ė.ink
Concerts
Concerts is an honest window on Ticketmaster's listings, every show real and every failed read admitted, but on test day it showed the next two days, not the season.
The register
The first ten
The houses that still set the temperature of the industry. Each one has its own page, with its origin, its founding year, its owner as of the date we checked it, the figure it stands on and where that figure came from.
- No. 1 Hermès Fashion & Couture
- No. 2 Louis Vuitton Fashion & Couture
- No. 3 Chanel Fashion & Couture
- No. 4 Dior Fashion & Couture
- No. 5 Gucci Fashion & Couture
- No. 6 Prada Fashion & Couture
- No. 7 Saint Laurent Fashion & Couture
- No. 8 Celine Fashion & Couture
- No. 9 Fendi Fashion & Couture
- No. 10 Loewe Fashion & Couture
The ateliers
Seven ateliers
Every maison sits in exactly one room. Fashion is not jewellery. A watch is not a car. The category is the first analytical act, and mixing two of them is how a reader ends up comparing a bag to a Brand Finance line about an SUV.
The dossier
The reading
Scarcity is a factory setting
France still holds nearly half of measured luxury-and-premium brand value. Italy holds the ateliers. Switzerland holds the wrist. Germany holds the engine. The United States holds the occasion — the engagement ring, the hotel check-in, the dressing table.
What changed across 2025 and 2026 is not the map. It is the split inside the map. Hermès, Cartier, Rolex and Chanel compounded. Houses that had spent a decade shouting a logo had to learn to speak quietly again, and the ones that could not are in a reset that will take about three years.
- 41.0%Hermès recurring operating margin, FY2025
- 32.9%of Swiss watch value is Rolex — Morgan Stanley / LuxeConsult 2025
- 49%of Brand Finance Luxury & Premium 50 2025 brand value is French
- +14%Richemont Jewellery Maisons, year to 31 March 2026
Méthode
How this register handles a figure
Sixty-one checkable claims in this register were taken to their sources before a page of it was generated. Thirty-eight survived. Twenty-three did not. Five figures were cut outright, and nothing was invented to replace them — including one on this page, which used to carry a Rolex brand value from a luxury table that was never issued for that year.
Two maisons in the hundred now carry no figure at all, because no published one exists. That is not a gap in the register. It is the register working.
Also in this estate
Twenty doors from labs.llc
The Earth Room, the 47th Street diamond directory, Wrist.llc, Xro.bar, Songbuilder, the NYC commercial roll — twenty doors from labs.llc, analysed from the live book and filed here so the maison sits next to the workshop that built the idea of a register. All twenty answered on the day they were checked.