Aeternitas

Aeternitas is a 106-storey tower in Dubai Marina, developed by London Gate in partnership with Franck Muller. Most brand collaborations in this market attach a name to a façade and a set of finishes. This one has a reason to exist: Franck Muller makes watches, the building is a clock tower, and at 450 metres it will be the tallest branded residential clock tower anywhere. The clock is the design brief rather than a decoration applied at the end of one.

871 to 8,582 sq ft in a single tower

Apartments run from one to four bedrooms, and the size range is close to tenfold, from roughly 871 sq ft at the smallest to 8,582 sq ft at the largest. A spread of that width inside one building means the tower is stratified vertically, with compact units through the lower and middle floors and the largest homes taking the top. It is worth knowing which band a specific unit falls into, because two apartments at opposite ends of that range are effectively different products, bought by different people and resold into different markets.

Height is the only view protection in Dubai Marina

Dubai Marina is among the densest high-rise districts in the world, and the standard risk of buying there is that a new tower rises in front of you and takes the view you paid for. That has happened repeatedly across the district over two decades. At 106 floors the upper part of this building clears everything around it, and nothing on the remaining Marina plots is likely to reach that height. For anyone who has watched a water view disappear behind new construction, that is not a selling line but the substantive reason to look at this tower rather than a shorter one.

A finished district, and 60% at handover

The other half of the Marina case is maturity. The district has been fully operational for years, the tram and metro run through it, the walk and the beach are long established, and its rental market is among the deepest and most liquid in Dubai. Land there is effectively exhausted, so new off-plan supply in the Marina is rare, and that scarcity does most of the work on price. Payment is set at ten per cent on booking, thirty per cent across construction and sixty per cent at completion in 2027, so the bulk of the money falls due only once the building stands. Current prices are shown in the panel above. Gorilla Real Estate can compare Aeternitas against the branded towers in Emaar Beachfront and Dubai Harbour, which is the shortlist most buyers at this level actually work through.