Historier fra forhandlerens side af markedet

Forhandlerinterviews, købsguider og markedsartikler, skrevet til de professionelle, der handler her.

Watch, Dial and Frame (c. 1936). Harry G. Aberdeen

Dealer Guides · 8 min

Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable or Worldwatch for a watch inventory

Six watches bought on a Saturday are an evening's work at a laptop, or they are six photos on the way home. What each of the four options does with a dealer's stock, and the one file none of the first three can produce every quarter.

Læs artiklen

Mød forhandleren · 6 min

Ilja Rijs køber, som om de gode ure allerede er væk

Han opbyggede Benjamin Marcello uden investorer, en lille portefølje og en regel om indkøb. Det virker. Her er hvordan.

View of Geneva. Edward Theodore Compton (German, 1849-1921)

Dealer Guides · 7 min

Watch fairs and auctions for dealers, September to December 2026

Every watch fair, dealer show and auction between 1 September and 31 December 2026. Three of them fall on 7 November.

La Source, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)

Dealer Guides · 7 min

Sourcing watches as a dealer in Europe

Where watch dealers source stock in Europe; private sellers, the trade, estates and auctions, with the paperwork and the real cost of each. A €10,000 hammer at Sotheby's is €12,800 before VAT.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Queen Cleopatra VII, 37–33 BCE, issued by Mark Antony

Dealer Guides · 11 min

The VAT margin scheme for watch dealers in the EU: how it works

How the EU margin scheme taxes a dealer's profit instead of the full price of a pre-owned watch, with a worked example at 21% and the three places it stops working.

Dealer in Fancy-Ware, 1877, by John Thomson (Scottish, 1837–1921)

Dealer Guides · 12 min

How to become a watch dealer in Europe: registration, tax, stock and the first year

What it takes to go from flipping watches to trading them in NL, BE, DE, UK and FR: registration from €20, the margin scheme, the €10,000 cash line and 43-day stock turns.

Law of the Wild (1881) Charles S. Raleigh (American, 1830-1925)

Dealer Guides · 13 min

The EU's anti-money-laundering rules for watch dealers from July 2027

From 10 July 2027 Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 makes watch dealers obliged entities across the EU, caps cash at €10,000 and requires ID on cash from €3,000. What changes, country by country.

Mød forhandleren · 7 min

Jossip Wille byggede et speciale i Cartier på en fortjeneste på 50 euro

Han var seksten, uret var en Omega til 250 euro fra en italiensk auktion, og lektien blev hængende. Sådan blev Le Petit Suisse Cartier-adressen i Gent.

Patek Philippe reference 2508 i rustfrit stål med Geometric-skiven

Reference · 5 min

Patek Philippe ref. 2508 "Geometric"

Reference Guides er en ny serie, hvor forhandlere deler specialviden med kolleger. Alessio Zenga åbner den med en af de mest eftertragtede Calatrava-udgaver, Patek Philippe nogensinde har lavet.

Hat Shop, 1913, by August Macke (German, 1887–1914)

Dealer Guides · 7 min

The EU One Stop Shop for watch dealers selling to consumers abroad

Margin-scheme watches never go in an EU One Stop Shop return; straps, winders and full-VAT watches do. What a dealer files where, the €10,000 threshold, and what the 2028 ViDA package does and does not change.