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Software is useful. People close deals.

A trade that moves six-figure objects on trust does not do it entirely over a wire. Worldwatch runs dealer events in the cities the trade already travels to, in the weeks it is already traveling.

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Place du Carrousel, Paris
1900
Camille Pissarro

Four kinds of events

  • Member lounges

    A room for verified dealers during a fair or auction week, open through the day. Come between appointments, meet whoever is there.

  • Private dinners

    Ten to twenty people at one table, by invitation.

  • Larger events

    Once or twice a year, a bigger room in a big city. Fifty or more dealers from ten countries, the kind of evening where you meet someone you did not know.

  • Brand and partner events

    Evenings with a brand, an auction house or a partner, for members only.

From Hong Kong to Miami, Geneva to Dubai: dealers who had traded for years by message, finally at the same table.

Photos from past events

  • Watches on display with their boxes at the Worldwatch launch
    Worldwatch launch
  • A long table of dealers at dinner in Geneva, smiling for the camera
    Geneva
  • A tray of watches passed around at a member dinner
    Member dinners
  • Tables set for dinner on a lawn in Hong Kong at dusk
    Hong Kong
  • A crowded room of guests at the Lecarage evening
    Lecarage
  • A gold chronograph on a dealer’s wrist in Miami
    Miami
  • Watch movements laid out in a display case at Breguet
    Breguet
  • Dealers seated around trays of Cartier watches
    An evening with Cartier
  • Watches presented on red and white stands at the Worldwatch launch
    Worldwatch launch
  • A tray of vintage watches at a Time On Show stand
    Time On Show
  • Dozens of watches spread across a wooden table in Geneva
    Geneva
  • Gold Omega watches in a museum display case
    Omega Museum
  • Two watches resting on stacks of plates beside the buffet at the Worldwatch lounge in Munich
    Munich lounge
  • A dealer taking a shot at the pool table behind the buffet
    Munich lounge
  • Weihenstephaner bottles on ice at the Worldwatch lounge
    Munich lounge

Worldwatch Lounge Munich

On Saturday 3 October we opened at 11:00 on the seventh floor of the Infinity Hotel. The first hour was quiet. A few dealers, some coffee, and me walking around checking if everything was ready.

Around 12:00 it started to fill up. Most people came between 12:00 and 14:00, just to get away from the fair for a bit. Have a drink, eat something, play some pool. Then they went back down for one last round before the end of the day.

Some trades happened at the tables too. And I saw a few dealers sit down with watches they had just bought on the floor, opening them up and checking them properly. No rush and no one looking over their shoulder. That is something you do not really get downstairs.

But mostly it was just dealers catching up, telling stories, laughing about the day. A fair is long, and you rarely get a moment to sit down with people who do the same thing as you.

This was the second time we did the lounge. Both times I left thinking the same thing: this is the part of the trade I want Worldwatch to be about. Not only the software, but the people using it.

Stan

Partner evenings so far, hosted with

  • Cartier
  • Vacheron Constantin
  • Sotheby's Watches
  • Ineichen Auctioneers
  • Time On Show
  • The Horology Club
  • Wajer Yachts
  • Infinity Hotels

The people behind the listings

  • Dealers’ wrists meeting over a table in Hong Kong, each wearing a watch
    Hong Kong
  • A speaker addressing the room at the Worldwatch launch, the Worldwatch name on the screen behind him
    Worldwatch launch
  • A circle of dealers’ wrists at a table in Geneva, showing the watches they wore
    Geneva
  • Hands handling vintage Cartier watches laid out on red trays
    An evening with Cartier
  • Visitors at a watch brand’s stand during Dubai Watch Week
    Dubai Watch Week
  • A speaker presenting at an Ineichen Auctioneers evening in Zürich
    Ineichen Auctioneers, Zürich
  • Dealers around a dinner table at a member dinner
    Member dinners
  • The Miami skyline seen from the deck of a yacht
    Miami
  • Dealers’ tables in the hall of the Munich watch fair
    Munich watch fair
  • Dealers gathered at a stand at Time On Show
    Time On Show
  • A gold astronaut figure on display at the Omega Museum
    Omega Museum, Biel/Bienne
  • A watchmaker at a microscope in the Breguet manufacture
    Breguet
  • Guests talking over drinks at the Lecarage evening
    Lecarage

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