Like any healthy ecosystem, it’s good for the luxury watch space to have different types of players that stimulate business.  This yields liquidity which generates more profit and more happy owners.  From original manufacturers, to dealers, jewelers, wholesalers, brokers, end-users, retail buyers, and watch repair techs, they all keep the industry chugging along. But the

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When people think investing they typically think traditional means like stocks, bonds, and real estate.  But increasingly people are opening their minds to alternative investment classes.  Things ranging from cars, watches, bourbon/whiskey, wine, and cryptocurrency. Why are more and more people seeking alternative investment vehicles?  Some of it has to do with the fact that

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I’ll be the first one to say it… the watch world’s most recent model trends in the past 5 years have gotten BORING!!!  If it isn’t another bland, over-marketed, circle case dress piece that’s getting shoved down buyers’ throats like the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59, it’s a blue dial steel sport model being over-hyped, and

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Too often, there’s this misconception that buying a luxury watch is an expense instead of an asset you can enjoy.  On top of that, you can make money to boot!  If you’ve subscribed to the Watch Trading Academy YouTube channel, you would already see the plethora of ways people have been making strong returns on

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Whenever a WTA member comes to me and expresses that they’re afraid to start watch trading, or that they’ve been sold a fake I always feel disheartened.  Especially because if they knew how simple it can be to avoid buying fakes, they wouldn’t have the same mental blocks that prevent them from making a lot

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It’s always interesting to me when I hear people say things like “watch trading only works in the USA”.  Or things like “the market here just doesn’t work for trading as much”.   While there definitely is some truth to the fact that countries’ markets operate differently, it doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities. So in this

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