Collected Wants to Professionalize the Wild West of Pre-Owned Watches

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A few years ago, Tim Bender, the founder of San Francisco Bay Area watch dealer Fog City Vintage, grew tired of the informal, haphazard way that most of the pre-owned watch industry operated. “Through my time as a watch dealer, I have done thousands of transactions, and I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly,” he tells Robb Report. “People…