Loved this video, very inspiring. I myself am contemplating starting my own business as a watch dealer and very appreciate you taking the time to make this video. Its a scary leap, however I have spent the last 9 year as a luxury watch photographer and feel this would be a huge asset moving into this industry.
So glad you’re enjoying the content mate, thanks for the support! 👍🏻 Wow 9 years of knowledge is definitely a positive, it’s a tough industry and I wish you luck mate 🙌🏻💯
Loved hearing this story. A journey I'm hoping to start myself. It's such a big thing to take the leap but obviously one that's worth it, to be in an industry that you're so passionate about is the dream really
Really great story Charlie! Lots of respect for the hustle! I started delivering newspapers at 10, worked fast food, delivered pizza, got into IT and then finally broke into tech. To this day I always tip delivery drivers well because I still remember the best tip I received. It was $16 on a $24 order. The gentleman handed me two $20 bills and told me to keep the change. I told myself I wanted to be successful and generous like that one day.
Thank you so much Ash I really appreciate it. Congratulations on your journey and I wish you all the best too. Yes it very important give back as the journey is real.
@@thehonestwatchdealer Thanks and congratulations to you as well dude! I referred someone to your channel earlier today btw! Fellow watch enthusiast who was working the cash register at a local shop.
Well as I said when I was in the boutique with you, an incredibly humble gentleman and fascinating story and you’ve made a passion a reality. Look forward to seeing you again I hope!
Only just catching up with this video Charlie, just back from Miami burning the candle at both ends. Fascinating insight you've given there and a very interesting back story. I really enjoyed the format it was good to hear something a bit more personal and a bit less watch orientated on this occasion. I hope you will manage to take a well deserved holiday this year buddy, keep on truckin'.
Fantastic video and journey Charlie. Your passion for your luxury watch businesses certainly shines through. I am sure LWC is going to go from strength to strength. Just goes to show that providing you work hard and have a genuine passion for what you do anything is possible. Well done !
I truly believe in integrity and honesty, I’ve built my career on it , I have purchased many watches from LWC and I highly recommend them . Authenticity, professionalism and customer service is second to non .
Thank you for sharing Charlie in giving the background of where you've been to where you are now! Cheers to you and the team for all the success you've had thus far. You've experienced some great accomplishments and I look forward to following your journey in the watch biz and looking ahead to a purchase from you in the near future. Cheers!
Congratulations, amazing story. Have been an entrepreneur myself all my life. Ups and downs but like you ending up finding my focus and now a serial entrepreneur and loving it. BTW we almost have the same Daytona, only mine is the rose gold... Keep posting while you build your empire. Would love to see some travel footage in the future. ❤
Thank you Marc, appreciate it! So great to here, if you never give up and keep pushing through you will make it - as you well know! Great choice in watch too! 👊🏻
Only listings and prices to end users is up in the UK sadly. From what I hear, wholesale and offering to end user is as low as in the EU and US. They just smack the end users with ludicrous margins in the UK. But, it’s coming to and end I would imagine.
Five ways to make money. Steel it, win it, inherit it, invent it or work for it. Good for you mate, worked for it. As a Developer i dug my money out of the ground.
👏👏👏 Lovely and amazing success, Story. I can't wait to come see you to pick up a Rolex from you at that beautiful place in England one day soon. Congratulations, and Hello from South Florida, USA
I’m a 17 year old watch enthusiast that just moved out of London recently lad and man do I love your videos! When it comes to Rolex there’s no one more knowledgeable, trustworthy and informative! I won’t be able to buy a Rolex myself until I’m much older and have saved up enough but atleast I know about them and their market haha!
I love your channel. I'm over the AD games and it's very refreshing to hear from a gray market seller who is honest and transparent about Rolex. Lots of gray market dealers are just as shady and awful as the ADs! I appreciate your content and information. Looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Love it! Pretty cool life going from design/build homes to your luxury watch company with some coffee along the way!! Keep the videos coming! Congratulations on the success and don’t change the white shirts ever!!
I noticed you’ve had that beautiful Daytona clock the whole time. I bet you got it for a much better price than today! I’m really wanting a role clock for my house and if i had a business id obviously put it in there. It’s not big and obvious but my eye is always drawn to it and it just adds so much class to the minimal decor. You don’t see the Daytona clock in dealers, its usually just the one you see at Wimbledon, which is still amazing and so iconic. I can’t believe your boutique is situated in this mansion. That is next level mate. So happy for your success and I applaud your non stop hard work. You are a proper grafter and its inspiring to see you stated from the bottom which is where I’m at so you’re going to motivate me bro. My goal is to have a real Rolex and I would pick a nice DateJust. I have a mint condition sapphire Omega Speedy tucked away safely in its huge box with all the paperwork. However I don’t think any Rolex AD would be interested in trading it in towards the DJ. If anyone reads this who would be interested in a pretty much mint condition 2022 Sapphire speedy just drop me a response. Definitely get in touch if you could help me get a DJ 41 (Green or Blue) and I’d happily trade in what was my grail watch, plus cash. Both watches actually wear similarly and feel similar but the speedy obviously has that wonderful chronograph. So I would say if you like the look of a DJ but also fancy a chrono function, then this would be a good match. I have full box and papers from when I bought it from the AD last May.
Yes they are great decorative pieces and look great anywhere, even your home! But yes, as with all things they are unfortunately more expensive than they used to be. We are incredibly lucky to be located where we are, the surrounding area is so stunning and adds to the whole experience for when you visit us in the Boutique. I'm so pleased I have inspired you, I really appreciate it. If you set your goals and work towards them you will have your first Rolex in no time I'm sure, and you are more than welcome to come in and get it from us, we would love to meet you! We currently do have a DJ41 Mint green in stock, if you want to email me over at info@theluxurywatchcompany.com I can let you know the details. All the best mate, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Love such story,, man made from scratch,, keep up bro,, this is how real success in life is,, by the way the showroom you have is so classy and unique love all the details in it
What an inspirational story! Thank you so much for sharing. Gives me and other budding entrepreneurs a lot of hope that we can do something similar. Love the channel and content, hope to get to buy one of my dream pieces from you one day. All the very best!
Brilliant history and wishing you all the very best and I can see LWC going all the way in the watch industry. Transparent and always giving a good solid honest insight into the luxury watch market. Absolutely fantastic.
If you buy of the right dealer they will confirm if it’s genuinely unworn or not. It’s actually quite easy when you have had thousands of watches through your hands.
Great story - thanks for sharing. Surprising to hear you needed a 25k loan to start up, I would have thought you’d have made money in property. Nice vid, keep it up.
Thank you I really appreciate that. Yes I was lucky enough to build my own house and ploughed all my money into that so was property rich and penny poor 👍🏻
Thank you it really is a absolutely stunning location, our clients love it. You would need around £100k in todays money to have enough funds behind you to start in the watch business. Hope this helps.
Congratulations Charlie on your life’s achievement you have worked your way up to wear you are today , thank you for sharing your story with all of us 👍
Such a wonderful story, Charlie. The passion and hard work pays off 💪 15+ hours of grinding is such an impressive hard work. Even though it's a long journey, it's worth it at the end of the day. Wish me luck too, I'm currently on my first year residency in dentistry. Hopefully I can made it out alive haha 😂 Keep up the backstory videos, it's interesting mate 🤙 Wishing you the best throughout you're AD career.
I’m guessing you helped design the shop too cause it looks amazing with the brick work and the beautiful Rolex clock! Fair play to you mate, you’ve worked you butt off and have yourself a fantastic business that will be sustainable. The best of luck to you! And let me know when i can buy a watch off you! 😜
Thank you mate, really appreciate that - yes all my design! You are welcome in anytime to come and see it in person, and buy a watch of course! 🤣 Would love to have you in!
@@thehonestwatchdealer I’m in belfast but if I’m ever over there I’ll have to visit. I just placed an order with my local AD for DJ green on jubilee. He also let me get a blue motif in to compare and I can pick my fav. But I think there’s 20 on the waiting list before me. You’ve the nicest boutique I’ve ever seen. And I’ve watched most of your videos and can see how hard you’ve worked to make your dream a reality. Love it mate. I’d happily buy one off you if you can ship to N.Ireland.
Hi Charlie I hope you & your family & watch team are all keeping well & you have all had a positive weekend 🙏 what a inspiring life journey, Charlie I am so happy for you & your family & team for building a successful business? There is nothing you can't achieve in life. You just need to believe in yourself & have the drive in moving forward each & every day & when you put in all the hard work, you will build a successful, genuine, honest business that will being joy happiness love & satisfying rewards for your family & team ? I can't wait to return to the luxury watch company. Hopefully, it will soon 🙏 take care, Charlie, and have a positive, productive week ahead. Best wishes, Karl
One thing you said really hit it for me when your back was against the wall and it was like your last chance and you had to succeed is when you did succeed had a very similar experience I had a family to feed and no one was going to do it for me that's when you find out who you really are congratulations as you are a breath of fresh air and listen to trustworthy and now I understand the attraction is because you're real keep it up and hope to buy a watch from you someday I just bought the Oct Master blue face I have a deep sea a presidential gold and a Sky-Dweller blue I'm wanting a Daytona 116520 I think as I like it better than the new one anyway I'll be watching to see when you get one thank you
Thank you I really appreciate it. Really glad everything worked out for you too! It is so true when your back is to the wall you truly find out who you are and what you are made of. Hope to meet you one day when your ready to purchase your next watch... possibly a Daytona 🙌
The story about how they got ya on that fake watch would be interesting. Was it an issue of circumstancial due diligence or was it really that good of a replica?
Hi Charlie. Love your content and we’ve been following your channel. Very disappointing though you often assume that the watch collectors are males only. It’s always “him”, “his collection”….there are so many female collectors out there! So you can’t really assume that the watches sent over for your review are only from male collectors right? 😅
Fantastic back story Charlie, wish you further success. I have to ask though, looking at one of your older photos you seemed to have less hair then. Have you had a hair transplant?😊 All the best, Harry
Thank you for sharing, fantastic story! Just wondered why you left the property market? Also do you think you could start a successful watch business with £25k nowadays?
Got your reply to my email. Taking your advice...skipping the Longines Hydroconquest. Almost ready to get my Rolex. Would like to get it from you. Get with your soon. Greg
To be fair here… first time you came with that storey it was 250£ above retail. Which one is it…? That being said, if you want to sell and a grey dealer offer you above retail, take the money and run. Many will offer you less.
He will tell you how heavenly rare a watch is when he wants you to buy. The opposite is true when you try to sell him one. Just use common sense, how rare can it be when he offers you $150 above retail? This feller doesn’t blink an eye when lying. UNBELIEVABLE! But true…. 😂
Sorry everyone wanted to ask this one the latest video my comment isn't related to this video but i was just offered £11,430 for my 126613 LB bluesy 2021 with box and papers this is way off my expectations. I turned them down flat as this is not even retail price. Am i being unrealistic with my expectations? Thank you.
As a general marker look up same model/year/country on Chrono24 and expect traders to operate on a 30% margin. Often higher on less sought after bi-metal, and of late, precious metal models.
Why did you need a loan if you had been successful in your other businesses?. You mentioned property and coffee shop ?, yet you are borrowing from your mother. Doesn’t make sense to me ?
No one becomes successful without making mistakes and hitting set backs. It’s about dusting yourself down after each knock, learning and going again. £25k…. I hope you paid your mum back!😂
This was great, HOWEVER, the only thing I challenge is the fact that a person can start a watch business with 25k. You quoted resale prices on that Sprite, and getting that Sprite at retial will yeild you a lot more. Be patient because slow and steady wins the race, and moving slowly gives the entrepreneur a live lesson of the process and what is needed to scale.
@glenncaukill1320 i am talking about buying retail to start. He started with his own watch. I started the same way to build up my capital. My statement was to start. Once you build capital, then you can expand.
@thehonestwatchdealer Very true(at this stage you're at), but as a dealer, you aren't paying 20k for a Sprite. You are paying wholesale prices of 16k if the value is 20k. Can you honestly share insight on the wholesale standpoint. We get the current market price spiel but need you to be HONEST(pun intended) and give insight on the back end. Not full details but even general insight. Because you implied people can't start with 25k in this market and that's not true. It only takes 1 watch to start
