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Collezione Letticino

The family

Collecting as a legacy

First watches, then art. Two different passions that tell the same idea. Choose few things, choose them well and care for them for those who will come after.

The Letticino family
The Letticino family

The founder

Gennaro Letticino began collecting long before the art collection existed. Over the years he gathered more than fifty collector's watches, from essential time-only pieces to grand complications, alternating vintage pieces with models from today's manufactures. From him the family learned respect for work done to perfection and the patience to wait for the right piece.

The first work

In 2001 his son Anteo carried the same attention from watchmaking to modern art. The first purchase of that year marks the beginning of the collection. A work chosen not for its name, but for the strength with which it held the gaze.

The eye

The collection follows no rigid programme. A work enters when it speaks with those already present, when it adds a new voice or completes a path. What matters is the quality of the material, the coherence of the artist's work and the ability to endure over time, like a fine movement.

Two generations

Today the collection is looked after by Anteo and Maria Adele Letticino. Together they oversee new acquisitions, the conservation of the works and the archive, carrying forward a heritage that unites their father's watches with the art of a new generation.

For those to come

Every work is catalogued, documented and conserved to museum standards, so that the collection can pass intact to those who come after. The virtual museum grew from the same idea. To open the collection, make it visitable and share it with everyone who loves art.

Timeline

  1. 1970s

    Gennaro Letticino buys his first collector's watches.

  2. 2001

    First work of modern art, chosen with his son Anteo. The Letticino Collection is born.

  3. 2006

    Acquisitions open up to contemporary art and large formats.

  4. 2012

    The watch collection passes fifty pieces, from time-only models to grand complications.

  5. 2018

    Anteo and Maria Adele begin the archive and the complete catalogue of the works.

  6. 2026

    letticino.com, the collection's virtual museum, goes online.

Contact

For research, loans, press and cultural partnerships

info@letticino.com
Collection addressLetticino Collection
3 Ruelle Saint-Jean
98000 Monaco