Year In Review: Five Years In The Watch World

A Buying, Selling, Collecting article on the Cartier Maxi Oval might help a handful of people actually purchase the watch, but it is worth writing just to better understand the model and its place in the collecting world. And the micro informs the macro in watches. Knowing about why Cartier made the Maxi Oval, sticking with my example, allows us to understand the brand and the market at that time so much better. Most available information about a watch like this is incentivized; what makes a Reference Points or a Buying, Selling, Collecting unique is that the source is not a dealer with one in inventory or an auction house who will sell two next year.