C40 Digital
Pre-owned watches2026

Pre-owned and vintage watch dealer

Tens of thousands of monthly visitors in 6 months

Built a pre-owned watch dealer's full digital presence: brand, custom platform with real-time market pricing, and a multi-model AI content engine running national SEO at scale. Currently tracking against a $20M Year-2 run-rate.

The challenge

Deep market expertise, no scaled digital presence.

A pre-owned and vintage watch dealer with strong category knowledge but no scaled digital footprint. The pre-owned watch market moves on real-time price intelligence: Chrono24 listings, eBay completed transactions, dealer feeds. Decisions to buy or sell happen in narrow windows. A digital presence that couldn't keep up with that pace was leaving margin on every transaction.

The approach

Brand, platform, market intelligence, and an AI content engine.

Full-stack build covering brand foundation, custom ecommerce platform tied to live market data, and an AI-orchestrated content system producing search-worthy content at the velocity the category demands.

  1. 01

    Brand foundation

    Brand identity built from scratch: logo system, voice, color palette, photography direction. A brand designed to signal credibility in a market where trust drives transactions.

  2. 02

    Custom platform with market intelligence

    Ecommerce platform built from the ground up, tied to a market-pricing system aggregating Chrono24, eBay completed sales, WatchBox, and other dealer feeds. Real-time buy/sell pricing recommendations feed directly into merchandising and acquisition decisions.

  3. 03

    AI content engine and SEO at scale

    National SEO strategy from launch. Multiple LLMs orchestrated together produce category-leading content on autopilot, with brand-voice guardrails and human review checkpoints. Competitor ranking analysis, share-of-voice tracking, and competitor conquesting via paid and organic.

The outcome

Tens of thousands of monthly visitors in 6 months. On track for $20M Year-2 run-rate.

The site reached tens of thousands of unique monthly visitors within six months of launch, a result that typically takes pre-owned watch retailers years to build. AI content engine producing high-ranking pieces across the long-tail of watch search demand. Real-time pricing intelligence informing every transaction. Paid acquisition (Google and Meta) layered on top of the organic foundation for additional acceleration. Currently tracking against a $20M annual run-rate target for Year 2.

Tens of thousands

Monthly unique visitors at Month 6

$20M

Year 2 run-rate target (in progress)

Real-time

Market pricing on every buy/sell decision

Multi-model

AI content orchestration

Services used

The pillars we pulled from.

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