The Watchcase Factory

The Watchcase is its own market inside the village and the only building of its kind in the Hamptons, and it is the address the CeeJackTeam knows better than any other. Joseph Fahys, a French emigrant who founded Joseph Fahys and Company in 1857, moved his watchcase plant to Sag Harbor and incorporated the business in 1881 in partnership with his son-in-law Henry Francis Cook. By the end of the century the Fahys Watch Case Company was the largest maker of gold and silver watch cases in the United States and the country's biggest producer of silverware, employing retired seamen alongside Hungarian, Polish, and Italian engravers, and Fahys founded the Jewellers Board of Trade in 1884. Joseph Bulova bought the plant and kept producing watchcases here until 1975, after which the building stood derelict for decades.

Cape Advisors rebuilt it, working with Beyer Blinder Belle, whose restoration credits include Grand Central Terminal and the United States Capitol, alongside Baldassano Architecture and local craftsmen. Over 30,000 original bricks were cleaned and reused, the masonry was re-pointed in historically correct two-color mortar, the signature octagon at Washington and Division Streets was rebuilt to its full five stories, and the water tower was restored as a gazebo with the highest views in the village. The southern half of the site was excavated for a concealed underground garage topped by a landscaped courtyard and the Watchcase Pavilion. Interiors are by Steven Gambrel, an AD100 designer and Sag Harbor Village resident: fumed oak floors, ten to twelve foot ceilings, exposed southern yellow pine beams, and restored brick.

The result is 63 residences in four types, a mix of factory lofts, penthouses, nine townhouses, and eight bungalows, sharing a heated saltwater pool, a fitness pavilion with yoga studio, sauna and spa treatment room, a grand lobby living room with the Vault Bar set into the original factory smokestack, concierge and porters, and designated underground parking and private storage for every residence. It is one block from Main Street and two from the harbor, and it suits buyers who want a village address with no exterior maintenance and a lock-and-leave routine. Recent activity has ranged from roughly $1.6 million for a one-bedroom to $3,885,000 for a townhouse, with a penthouse asking $5.995 million in early 2026.

The CeeJackTeam was the original exclusive sales team for Watchcase. Cee Scott Brown and Jack Pearson launched sales here in 2013, two years before the first residences were ready to occupy, sold 85 percent of the building over the following four years, and returned in 2020 to sell out the remaining residences. The team has handled on-site rentals at Watchcase since 2015 and continues to represent owners here. Nobody has sold more of this building than the people who launched it.