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The Journal.
Market intelligence, collector guides, and behind-the-dial knowledge from the Watch District team.
The chronograph is quietly outperforming the diver
Divers have carried the secondary market for a decade. This year, the money on our own floor moved to the stopwatch.
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What happens to a watch before we list it
Between the moment we buy a watch and the moment it appears on the site, it spends about three weeks with people who are paid to be sceptical.
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The dive watch that never gets wet
Almost nobody dives with these. That does not make the specification pointless, it just changes which parts of it matter.
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Why the hardest watches to make end up on athletes
A tourbillon on a cyclist climbing an alp looks absurd until you understand what it is being asked to survive.
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The second watch problem
You already own the obvious one. Here is how to choose the next piece so it earns wrist time instead of sitting in a winder.
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The independents have arrived in Melbourne
Five years ago these names came up once a year in conversation. Now they arrive in the showroom on wrists, and the collections behind them have changed shape.
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