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Watchfinder & Co. is an online retailer of second-hand watches based in Maidstone, UK. The company was described by the Financial Times as the "leading pre-owned e-tailer" for watches; its annual turnover was £60m in 2015 and is forecast to hit £70m by 2016, and the total value of the watches it has sold was £165 million as of 2015. The website receives 7.4m unique visitors per year, one of the highest numbers for any website about watches. It has a stock of over 2,500 watches across more than 50 brands, making it the UK's largest second-hand seller.
As well as this market-leading position, Watchfinder has also been notable for many original practices in the world of used watch sales: it was the first UK website dedicated to the online sale of second-hand watches when it started in 2002; it was the first such company to introduce a buy-back guarantee in 2011; it has an in-house servicing department, which employs expert watchmakers to service and repair watches from a wide array of manufacturers; and it is one of the only watch retailers to publish a mainstream online magazine, The Watch Magazine.
Watchfinder has won several awards for business success. It was named the Watch Retailer of the Year at the UK Jewellery Awards in 2014 and 2015, E-commerce Business of the Year at the 2014 Digital Entrepreneur Awards, and Retail Hero at the Growing Business of the Year Awards. The brand was one of only 10 UK companies among the 2014 Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track Hot 100 "ones to watch". Watchfinder is a finalist in the 2015 National Business Awards, while the company founders were shortlisted for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and head watchmaker Tony Williams was one of WatchPro's Top 100.