Robb Report: Eric Wind Quoted on Watch Auctions
Paige Reddinger recently wrote for Robb Report about watch auctions. Within the article, Reddinger quotes Eric Wind.
“Dealers who cut their teeth at auction houses before venturing out on their own agree. “I think it’s definitely true that auction houses don’t always have the best expertise in house,” says Eric Wind of Wind Vintage, a Palm Beach, Florida-based vintage dealer, who spent two and a half years as a senior specialist of watches at Christie’s before becoming an independent dealer. Part of the problem, he says, is that the houses don’t financially reward this level of expertise and many of the watch experts within these institutions, like himself, soon realize they can make more money dealing on their own, and have more control over the quality of pieces they’re bringing to clients.”
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