As some of you may know I travel to Italy and specifically to my hometown of Milano every two months to find treasures to bring back to my clientele.
I was quoted in this nice article recounting why and how Italy is the vintage watch haven. Below, the quote:
Then, last week, the Milan-born watch dealer and collector Gai Gohari, who has amassed an insane collection of vintage Piaget by shopping in Italy, may have cracked the code. The simplest explanation often being the best, his statement sounded plausible. “Italians always save that money to buy that special watch for the special occasion . . . [and] . . . all those watches remain within the families. And now there’s a lot of stuff to be picked up from the estates,” he told Robb Report. Despite no formal study to back it up, Gohari’s explanation does align with the history of the Italian economy and the dolce vita culture of the post-World War II era.
https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/italy-vintage-watches-1235824016/
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