Dealer Guides
Operating guides for watch dealers. The parts of dealing that no one teaches and every dealer learns by getting one wrong
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.
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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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.