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British luxury watch dealer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Watchfinder & Co. is an online retailer of second-hand watches based in Kings Hill, United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest seller of second-hand watches.[2]
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By 2015, watches sold through the site totalled £155 million,[3] and annual turnover was £68 million in financial year 2015-16.[1] Online traffic amounts to around 6.7m unique visitors per year, putting it among the highest rates for any horological website.[4]
In addition, the brand is notable for several innovations in the industry:
- It was the first UK website dedicated to the online sale of second-hand watches when it started in 2002.[3]
- It was the first retailer to offer a "buy-back guarantee", in which the company refunds the cost of a watch if returned in good condition after two years.[5]
- It services and repairs at least 600 watches per month in-house.[6]
- It publishes an online magazine, The Watch Magazine. Published quarterly, it has been downloaded more than 100,000 times.[7]
Watchfinder has been recognised for business success by several industry awards[8][9][4] and is an alumnus of the Sunday Times Fast Track 100.[10]
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