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Rebound In Used Luxury Watches Continues
Rebound In Used Luxury Watches Continues
During the COVID-era flood of free money, from stimulus checks to the Federal Reserve's zero-interest-rate policy, luxury watch prices skyrocketed to the moon. But once that liquidity boom faded and interest rates were pushed sharply higher to rein in the inflation monster fueled by helicopter money, the secondary luxury market slid into a multi-year correction.
Over the last year and a half, however, that downturn appears to have bottomed out (see here and here), with prices continuing to rebound.
The Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index, which...
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