For Dealers
Fresh estate inventory, before it reaches auction.
Archiva meets owners at the moment they ask what their watch is. When they decide to sell, the watch goes to a small panel of specialist dealers who bid on it, blind, with payment held by a licensed escrow service until you have inspected the piece. There is no fee to be on the panel.
How it works
Submissions
Owners create a record through the archive and set a reserve. Each watch arrives with its reference page, four photographs, the owner’s declarations and the serial. Nothing below the reserve is ever shown to anyone.
Blind bids
You place one bid without seeing the reserve; the owner keeps all of it. Dealers never see one another or the owner’s contact details. A bid at or above the reserve is a sale; the owner picks among qualifying bids by masked profile within 48 hours.
Escrow
The winning dealer funds escrow, sends a prepaid insured label, and funds release once you have inspected and accepted the watch.
What it costs
Nothing to join, nothing to bid, and nothing to list: your stock goes on the marketplace free, with a record on every watch, and a 5% fee settles only when a listing sells. On the panel, Archiva's 10% is added to your winning bid when you fund escrow, and Archiva pays the escrow fee, so there is no separate invoice.
Founding dealers
The first panel gets placement on the reference pages that match their specialties, free for the first year, a permanent founding badge, and a direct say in how the program takes shape.
Join the panel
Tell us what you buy. We route submissions by specialty and reply personally within five business days.
Founding dealer
Specialists already on the panel, with placement on the references they know best.