Trade what you own against what you want.
Trades are taken case by case, and only on full sets. If the piece you own is complete and presents as retail-ready once it has been inspected in hand, it can be put forward against a piece in stock. If it does not, you will be told that before anything ships.
A trade here is one valuation and one price, arrived at separately. You are free to walk away from either half of it.
- Basis
- Case by case
- Accepts
- Full sets only
- Against
- A piece in stock, case by case
- Inspection
- Inspected and QC’d, in house and third party
- You receive
- A projected sale value
Incomplete sets are declined rather than discounted. That applies to a piece arriving on a trade exactly as it applies to a piece Kingdom buys outright.
Two numbers, not one.
A trade is where most of the confusion in this business lives, because it is usually presented as a single figure: what you will pay to swap. That figure hides which half moved. Kingdom does it the other way. Your piece is valued on its own merits, the piece you want keeps the price it already carries, and the difference between the two is the only number you are asked to agree to.
Your piece is valued in hand, after the same inspection that runs on anything bought for stock. Nothing about the valuation changes because a trade is attached to it, and nothing about the listed price changes either. Both numbers are stated separately so that the arithmetic is yours to check.
Either half can also stand alone. If the valuation is fair but nothing in stock is right, sell the piece outright and take the money. If the piece you want is right but you would rather keep the one you have, buy it in the ordinary way. A trade is only worth doing when both halves are worth doing.
A projected sale value, returned after inspection with the reasoning that produced it.
The listed price as it stands. It does not rise because a trade is attached to it.
Start a trade.
Describe the piece you own and the piece you want. A reference is worth more than a category here, because the second half of a trade is a specific watch. If what you want is not in stock, the search runs as a sourcing request.
After you send it.
The terms sit at the top of this page and the inspection method sits on The Standard. What follows is only the clock.
- First lookThe photographs are read first, and you are told plainly if the piece is not one Kingdom can takeA reply usually within one to two hours
- In handThe piece is inspected and QC’d in hand, the same inspection that runs on anything bought for stockTimeframe on request
- Both numbersBoth numbers come back together: a projected sale value on your piece, and the price of the piece you wantWith the reasoning behind each
- Your decisionYou decide. Trades are taken case by case, and a piece that does not meet the standard is declined rather than discounted
