Horology
References, movements, service history and the state of the bracelet — the things that move a watch valuation, and the things that do not.
About the house
The pawnbroker for the things you intend to keep.
Trinity exists for one situation: you own something valuable, you need the money it represents, and you have no intention of losing the thing itself. Everything here is arranged around giving it back.
- Established
- 2013
- Authorised by
- FCA · Ref 741896
- Trading as
- Trinity · Unbolted
- Where
- City of London
Why Trinity exists
The high street was never built for fine things.
A branch pawnbroker prices to the floor. A gold chain is weighed, a watch is glanced at, and the offer is whatever would survive a quick sale — because a shop with a window on every high street has to assume the worst case, and carries the overheads either way.
That is a perfectly good business. It is a poor one for a Patek, a signed Cartier piece, or a canvas with provenance — the items where the gap between scrap and market is most of the money.
Trinity was set up to lend against that gap. A specialist in the actual category values the item for what it is, and the loan is funded by Unbolted’s network of lenders rather than a branch estate. That is the whole trick, and it is why more of your item’s value reaches you, at a lower rate than the names you have walked past.
Trinity · Unbolted
Trinity Pawnbrokers receives, values and safeguards your item. Unbolted funds the loan against it.
One firm stands behind both: Open Access Finance Ltd, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under reference 741896. Trinity is the counter and the strongroom; Unbolted is the capital and the permission to lend. You deal with Trinity from the valuation to the moment your item comes home.
How your item is protected →The bench
Specialists, not a counter clerk
An item is only worth what somebody can recognise in it. Each category is valued by someone who works in that category, and the reasoning is shown on screen before you are asked for anything.
Gemmology
Certificated or not, stones are assessed on the four Cs and on what the current market is actually paying for that cut and colour.
Hallmarks & silver
Maker, assay office and date letter first. Scrap weight is the floor of a silver valuation, never the whole of it.
Art & provenance
Attribution, condition and paper trail, read against recent auction results for the artist rather than a headline estimate.
Luxury leather goods
Date codes, hardware, stitching and the completeness of box and receipt — resale in this category turns on all four.
Gold & bullion
Assayed and weighed in front of you, priced off the spot rate on the day, with the arithmetic shown.
What we hold ourselves to
Four things that do not change
You see the working
The valuation, the rate and the total repayable are on screen before you commit to anything. No offer arrives with the reasoning left out.
Insured from your door to ours
Free Special Delivery on our label, insured in transit, and insured for the whole time your item is with us.
Nothing on your credit file
Your item is the security, so there is no credit check and no footprint. Nobody is told, and nothing is recorded against your name.
Returned as you left it
A six-month renewable term. Repay it and the same piece comes back in the same condition, insured on the way home.
Start where it suits you
See what your item is worth as a loan
Every item page values your item before asking anything of you. No credit check, no obligation, and a confirmed offer within one business day.
Value your itemOr speak to a specialist on 020 3567 1300 — weekdays, 9am to 5.30pm.