What makes it different? The advertised price isn't the actual cost. An Orient watch listed at €198 on a German forum, without its box or papers and with a pending service, costs between €213 and €263 delivered. A €500 watch that needs a €300 service is a worse buy than a €700 watch that's recently serviced. The system calculates this and displays it accordingly. It never gives a figure it can't back up. The cost is always a range with its stated assumptions: "between €219 and €228, shipping costs to your postal code to be confirmed." If the ad doesn't specify whether it includes a box, the system doesn't assume it does: it widens the range and displays it accordingly. The watchmaker's criterion is the product itself. The cost-service table—the actual cost of servicing by movement family, availability of spare parts, and which repairs aren't worthwhile—is written by a master watchmaker with thirty years of experience. It's the only piece of information that can't be altered, bought, or reconstructed using publicly available data. And sometimes it tells you not to buy. In the affordable segment, secondhand often doesn't pay off, and the alert compares the price to the official retail price so you can see it. With the €150 customs exemption now eliminated, the breakdown of a purchase in Japan or the United States usually dispels the illusion of a low price. That's its most valuable function outside the EU.

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Watchmaker buying assistant for the Spanish buyer.

Watchmaker buying assistant for the Spanish buyer.