The top end of the market for classic cars is narrow, shallow, and prone to dramatic price crashes as well as spikes. Could the vintage watch market go the same way? Simon de Burton investigates.
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Reluctance to trading luxury watches online was stripped away by the pandemic, leading to legions of new customers buying and selling vintage and contemporary timepieces for the first time.
Reluctance to trading luxury watches online was stripped away by the pandemic, leading to legions of new customers buying and selling vintage and contemporary timepieces for the first time.
Jonathan Zadok describes how his family battled through the pandemic to build one of the largest luxury watch stores in the United States.
Mechanical watches are about as sustainable a durable good as the world has ever produced, but the profligacy of the industry more generally is enough to make campaigners weep.
With Super Bowl LV just a couple of days away, leading pre-owned Rolex retailer Bob’s Watches took it upon themselves to curate the “Top NFL Luxury Watches: Super Bowl Edition” – a watch roundup of your favorite players and their championship-worthy timepieces.
In a world dominated by armed-to-the-teeth superpowers like Richemont, Swatch Group and Rolex, it pays to fight a guerrilla war on your own terms, which is precisely what BOMBERG founder and chairman Rick de la Croix is attempting.
Analysis of the most popular watch brands and collections by two of Europe’s leading secondary market specialists, CHRONEXT and Watchfinder & Co., reveals interesting variations between countries that authorised dealers and pre-owned operations can learn from.
Chinese New Year is less than a month away on February 12, and will be celebrated as the Year of the Ox for the first time since 2009.
Having started as a blogger from his bedroom, Mr Clymer is now at the helm of a business that just raised $40 million from an eclectic mix of investors.
