Please Tell Us About Your Watch
Thank you for visiting us and telling us about your watch.
Our watch purchasing process is very quick and easy. Simply provide us with details of your watch and four clear photographs. We will then confirm our interest and make you a ball-park offer subject to inspection.
We then assist you with getting your watch to us safely and securely for inspection and a formal offer. If accepted we will pay you by bank transfer immediately.
If you prefer not to accept, we will return your watch to you at our expense, fully insured and tracked via next-day delivery.
Please read the following notes carefully, before submitting details of your watch...
We only buy vintage watches and our focus is watches from 1930 – 1980. Although we buy earlier and later, up until around 2000.
We do not buy quartz watches. We only buy mechanical watches, which are either hand-wound or automatic. We do not buy watches, which are powered by batteries unless these are ladies Cartier.
We never buy gold-plated or gold-filled watches. Our specialty is watches made of solid gold. We quite often buy steel watches for our sister website www.vintagewatchcentre.com
We only buy watches made by the brands we stock. These are: Rolex, Omega, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, IWC, Longines, Universal Geneve, Heuer and Zenith
If you are overseas, the customs duty and shipping is your responsibility. You should state on the shipping documents that you will pay the customs fees. Alternatively you may deliver it personally the next time you are in the UK. Watches sent to us from overseas will attract approximately 20% duty. This will be your responsibility to pay unless agreed otherwise by email in advance..
Please complete the following form as fully as possible. If you wish to proceed and would like to have us provide you a ballpark trade valuation with a view to selling us your watch please could you take your time to complete the following form as fully as possible. The more information you can provide us, the better we can help you…
Good clear close-up photographs please taken by a window in daylight. Please could you also provide us four clear close-up photographs of each aspect of the watch including the dial, case back and sides. These are best taken in good natural light by a window. The better the images the more accurately we will be able to value your watch. Clear close-ups of the dial and case are essential for us to provide you a proper estimate.
Weighing your watch. If your watch is on a gold bracelet we will need the total weight of the watch and bracelet in grams.
