Walker: Tariffs shrink the retail-to-secondary watch price premium gap
Quaid Walker · How Watch Brands Are Responding to Tariffs | Quaid Walker on TBPN April 10th · Apr 17, 2025 · at 13:09
Quaid Walker, founder of Bezel, explains how luxury watch tariff increases affect consumer incentives between waiting for retail allocations versus buying immediately on secondary markets.
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“If the premium from, you know, a lot of these pieces from the secondary market To retail is close to 30%. All of a sudden, if a primary market watches 31% up from a cost perspective, that Delta is certainly meaningfully decreased. Do I actually want to wait on a waitlist any longer or should I just buy one that's available on the market in the US? Of course, sellers know that and they're pricing it up 10%, but it still makes that that difference smaller than it was.”
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