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'I was offered £80,000 for a watch I bought in 2015 for £7,000'
expensive mortgage – but in his spare time he trades watches worth six figures, and what started as a hobby has had a measurable impact on his life and finances.“Watches fascinate me because they are outliers,” he says. “Until recently, they were objects that everyone needed to have, which means they are time capsules for each period – historical items that can invoke the war or the pop art era.