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Buying Guides

Learn what to look for before you buy. Plain-language guides that explain which features matter and which you can ignore.

Buying guides: what to check before you buy

One guide for every category: the details that decide quality, from leather and construction to movements and diamond grades, the budget to plan for, sizing between the US and Europe, and the pieces we would buy today.

Buy from the fashion house, an authorized retailer or a reseller that authenticates and guarantees every piece, and keep the receipt, the dust bag, the box and any warranty card: they matter for repairs and for resale. Swiss watches carry a 2- to 5-year international warranty when bought from an authorized dealer, and buyers in the EU and UK also have a legal guarantee of at least two years on new goods.