Historier fra forhandlernes side av markedet

Forhandlerintervjuer, kjøpsguider og markedsanalyser, skrevet for profesjonelle som 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.

Les artikkelen

Møt forhandleren · 6 min

Ilja Rijs kjøper som om de gode klokkene allerede er borte

Han bygde Benjamin Marcello uten investorer, med et lite utvalg og en regel om innkjøp. Det fungerer. 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.

Møt forhandleren · 6 min

Jossip Wille gjorde en fortjeneste på 50 euro til en spesialisering på Cartier

Han var seksten, klokken var en Omega til 250 euro fra en italiensk auksjon, og lærdommen ble hengende. Slik ble Le Petit Suisse Cartier-adressen i Gent.

Patek Philippe referanse 2508 i rustfritt stål med Geometric-skiven

Referanse · 5 min

Patek Philippe ref. 2508 "Geometric"

Reference Guides er en ny serie der forhandlere deler spesialistkunnskap med hverandre. Alessio Zenga åpner den med en av de mest ettertraktede Calatrava-utgavene Patek Philippe noensinne har laget.

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.