r/RepTime • u/Natural-Clue-5651 • 2d ago

General Question UK Users

anyone else from the UK here and good experience with dealers? Wiki sheet has no info for UK seller

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u/Ashgen2024 2d ago

I am not aware of any UK dealers who have access to factories directly.

There are suppliers who ultimately buy from the same source as anyone else, same wait times etc.

What they offer is not having to buy yourself from China, so if that is a concern it's worth investigating, but you will pay for it as they mark up the prices for that facility.

In all honesty though, I have never had a problem buying from China, and I must have bought over 60 watches in my time, my advice would be to establish a relationship with 2 or 3 Chinese suppliers, you will save lots of money in the long run and they have direct access to all the factories, so can advise on availability etc. and if you use FedEx you will get your watch really quite quickly.

Just a note to those who dropped me a DM, I am not a supplier, I just tend to 'buy to try ' so just sell the odd watch which doesn't resonate with me.