SILAS WALTON

The pre-owned market is coming of age, says the CEO and founder of London-based dealer A Collected Man

Tell us about your most treasured watch. My 18th birthday present was my great-great-grandfather’s pocket watch. The very first thing I bought and sold was also a pocket watch from a flea market in France when I was about 13 or 14, which I sold on eBay. It sounds like you’ve always had a passion for watches. I kind of had an unofficial background in watches but I didn’t consider myself a “watch guy”. I just saw how things were changing in the luxury market and discovered that there was nothing particularly sophisticated for second-hand watch buyers and sellers online. How has this changed over the years? It’s changed radically. The industry has been led by a number of transformation actors like Chrono24 and Watchfinder & Co, but also by the fact that in North…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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