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Buying a Watch as an Asset: An Honest Accounting

I sell watches for a living, which makes me exactly the wrong person to ask and exactly the right person to answer. Here is the arithmetic, without the marketing.

Buying a Watch as an Asset: An Honest Accounting

I sell watches for a living, which makes me exactly the wrong person to ask and exactly the right person to answer. Here is the arithmetic, without the marketing.

Bvlgari Octo Finissimo: The Thinnest Watch in t...

It is 6.4mm thick, made of sandblasted titanium, has 110 facets, and weighs less than most watches half its size. It is also the least understood serious watch on sale.

Bvlgari Octo Finissimo: The Thinnest Watch in t...

It is 6.4mm thick, made of sandblasted titanium, has 110 facets, and weighs less than most watches half its size. It is also the least understood serious watch on sale.

Trading Up: Turning a Collection Into a Portfolio

Most collections are a pile of purchases held together by sentiment. A portfolio is the same watches, with someone tracking what they are worth and where they should go next.

Trading Up: Turning a Collection Into a Portfolio

Most collections are a pile of purchases held together by sentiment. A portfolio is the same watches, with someone tracking what they are worth and where they should go next.

Zenith Chronomaster Sport or Defy El Primero 21

Zenith makes the most technically interesting chronograph movements in the industry and has spent sixty years being underappreciated for it. That is the opportunity.

Zenith Chronomaster Sport or Defy El Primero 21

Zenith makes the most technically interesting chronograph movements in the industry and has spent sixty years being underappreciated for it. That is the opportunity.

Insuring and Storing a Five-Figure Collection

Most collections are underinsured by a factor most owners would find alarming, and the failure almost always happens in the same three places.

Insuring and Storing a Five-Figure Collection

Most collections are underinsured by a factor most owners would find alarming, and the failure almost always happens in the same three places.

IWC Pilot's Watch: TOP GUN Ceramic or Spitfire

Two watches from the same collection that share almost nothing: a 44.5mm ceramic chronograph and a 39mm green three-hander. The choice tells you who you are.

IWC Pilot's Watch: TOP GUN Ceramic or Spitfire

Two watches from the same collection that share almost nothing: a 44.5mm ceramic chronograph and a 39mm green three-hander. The choice tells you who you are.