Time flies: Celebrating 20 years of The Watch Club

Danny Pizzigoni, founder of the Mayfair boutique, on what he's learnt after two decades in the business

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I've been in the watch industry almost all my life – I don't remember not doing it. My father was of Italian descent and was among the original group of dealers that started in the UK. From a very early age, he dragged me around flea markets and antique fairs such as Portobello Road, Camden Passage and Bermondsey Market. As I got older, I started to appreciate the beauty of timepieces and the fact you could make a business from them. At the age of 15, I started buying and trading on my own to some of the big collectors in Europe and by the time I was 20, I already had five years' experience and was dealing with very high-level watches internationally.

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