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Concentrated Watch Reference Indices Mask Wider Secondary Market Illiquidity
Divergent price trends between privately held blue-chip brands and publicly listed groups reveal a highly bifurcated secondary watch market where broad index metrics obscure transactional reality.
Broad secondary-market watch indices are heavily concentrated in a small number of blue-chip references, meaning that apparent market-wide price stabilization often masks persistent illiquidity and steep discounts across the wider market. This concentration skew distorts the perceived health of the secondary market, presenting an illusion of broad-based recovery when transactional volume and pricing power remain…
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