What to Look for When Buying a Used Watch

The price of the watch you like is too expensive, beyond the budget, or the watch counter you like is out of stock, so you can only settle for second-hand watches. How to buy watches in the second-hand market?

First of all, we have to determine whether you want to choose a complete watch or a single watch. A complete watch means a series of accessories such as a watch, a box, a warranty card, and a manual, and a single watch does not have any accessories or accessories. It means only a watch.

For beginners, it may be more reassuring to choose a full set of watches, but when buying a full set of watches, the price of a full set of watches will be relatively higher than the purchase price of a single watch. In terms of benefits, it is relatively more cost-effective.

But when you want to sell it again later, whether it is a full set of watches or a single watch, in fact, the price difference between the recovered prices is relatively small.

For some veterans, they will choose to choose some single tables in the secondary market, because they will be replaced or sold again in the later stage, so that the loss will be relatively smaller.

The second point is to determine whether you want to buy a popular or an underdog. Popular models such as Rolex Water Ghost, Daytona series, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak series, Patek Philippe Nautilus Grenade and other series of watches, unpopular watches such as Jaquet Droz, Piaget's full diamond watch and other series of watches .

What is the difference? When the market is very high, you may make money by buying popular watches, but when you are actually buying, whether it is a popular watch or an unpopular watch, it is actually in the second-hand market. The difference is not much.

In the process of buying unpopular models in the secondary market, relatively speaking, the price/performance ratio will be higher. Normally, these unpopular models are generally priced at about 30% of the counter price in the secondary market, and the price/performance ratio is still very high.

One more thing to add, whether you are buying a popular or unpopular watch, you must go to the merchant to determine whether to repurchase, and whether there is a repurchase service, such as a service such as a 20% discount after purchase, which can ensure you The watch you buy has at least a guarantee within one year. In this case, the watch you buy is also a guarantee of value.

The third point is to choose the right merchant to buy, and try to choose some local merchants that are better and bigger, such as whether they have physical stores, how long they have been operating, word of mouth and other factors.

After all, a watch is a mechanical product, and it is inevitable that sometimes there will be some small problems. When a well-chosen merchant encounters these small problems, they will go to the merchant to deal with them. Generally, they will not refuse to solve such problems. As for the good merchants, there will be a good after-sales service, so that when you encounter these small problems, the process of solving them is more comfortable for you.