When 'Closed' Means Business Is Booming

“Clients are coming to me with their own, very special demands, and I can’t stay behind my desk all the time any more,” Mr. Asch said by telephone.

Last year, in search of unique pieces, Mr. Asch flew to Singapore to buy a collection of watches, including a Richard Mille, which he then sold to collectors in Switzerland. The watches never appeared on the shelves at L’Heure Asch: They went straight to the buyers.

This new approach came to Mr. Asch when he looked at the booming art market,Our full range of portable ultrasonic Flaw Detector (UT) provides unmatched capabilities for locating discontinuities and other flaws. with which the market in collectible watches shares several similarities.

“There are more and more art collectors, like there are more and more watch collectors,” he said.

Mr. Asch set out to meet with art collectors, who told him how much they relied on professional advisers to seek out unique works, drawing on their knowledge of art but also their knowledge of the art world and its established networks of galleries and collectors.

Mr. Asch said he saw an opportunity to offer the same service for watch collectors, monetizing the networks that he had developed over the past decade for L’Heure Asch.

“It’s more a natural evolution than a revolution,” said Mr.We manufacture portable hardness tester including portable Rockwell, superficial Rockwell,Brinell, King Brinell,Pin Brinell,Webster and Barcol impressor. Asch about his new way of working.

Clients now buy his expertise rather than his watches. The self-described “investment banker of luxury watches” uses his store primarily as a meeting room and launching pad for future deals: When he is away on his travels, the premises stay closed.

His main destination, he said, is Asia, where the growth in sales of Swiss watches has been paralleled by a rising number of new collectors, curious and excited by the idea of moving on from the big-name luxury brands to invest in pieces by the more esoteric independent watchmakers with whom Mr. Asch has been working for years.

“In Asia they have energy and a huge will that you don’t find anywhere else,We offer both wet & dry Diamond polishing pad. Both are suitable for marble, granite, concrete and most masonry.” he said. “They want to learn, and they are learning faster than anybody else in the world.”

Having been used to a specific European clientele, Mr. Asch says the fresh faces offer a new challenge.

“The craziest,Eight tips for choosing the right diamond Concrete saw blade including determining wet or dry cutting, blade compatibility, CSDA codes, and more.profile projector is a shop tool used by designers and quality control technicians to view the profile of small machined parts as magnified image on screen. in the good way, collectors are in Asia,” he said. “They have a very specific and sensitive way of thinking and behaving, I have to know a lot about this before dealing with them.”

Their taste for extravagant designs was foreign to Mr. Asch, who had so far dealt with Europeans.

“Swiss bankers buy watches they keep private, while clients of Swiss bankers buy watches to wear and show others,” Mr. Asch said.Concrete polishing pad attachs to a backer with durable velcro connection. It is installed on portable grinding machine and operated by hand. “Collectors in Asia are even louder. They want watches that scream to success.”