In pre-owned watches,
the hardest thing to see is authenticity
In cross-region luxury watch trading, what both sides fear most is never the price — it is whether the watch is real and whether the condition is right. These concerns do not fade as the market grows; scale amplifies them.
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Authenticity and condition
Repaired, frankenstein-assembled and after-market gem-set watches are far from rare; the same watch can be graded a full level apart by different appraisers.
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Reports that are hard to trust
Without a traceable written report, any “certificate” can be printed by anyone; when something goes wrong, no institution or platform can step in.
Authentication by an authoritative institution
Vanbyex entrusts authentication to Guangjian Group, a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Every watch entering the flow receives 100% end-to-end non-destructive testing, performed by senior master watchmakers each with more than 8 years of experience — together they have authenticated over 100,000 watches, covering nearly every mainstream brand and rare vintage piece.
Leveraging Guangjian Group’s state-owned-enterprise credentials, watches that clear initial authentication go through a standardised “three inspections, two archivals” process, and are issued an official report with a unique serial number — traceable online, judicially admissible, with all imagery and data permanently archived in the cloud.