It now contains information on half a million items. Founded in London in 1990, the Art Loss Register is the world’s largest private database of lost, stolen and looted art, antiques and collectibles. THE WATCH REGISTER database is part of the Art Loss Register. These widespread search operations offer theft victims, insurers and police forces the best possible chance of recovering stolen watches. Thanks to the growing use of the database by the trade and collectors, and THE WATCH REGISTER team’s collaboration with industry partners, a hundred thousand pre-owned watches passing through the international market are now checked against the database per year. THE WATCH REGISTER database provides due diligence services to the watch trade, which allow pawnbrokers, watch dealers, auction houses and collectors to check the status of a watch within 5 minutes and from less than £2 per search.

The database also includes vintage, antique and pocket watches. Watches by over 850 different brands, manufacturers and watchmakers are registered on the database, including Rolex (25,000), Omega, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Breitling, TAG Heuer, IWC, Franck Muller, Panerai, Breguet, Bremont, Hublot, Girard Perregaux, Piaget, Jaeger LeCoultre, Zenith, Richard Mille, A. THE WATCH REGISTER database currently lists over 75,000 lost and stolen watches, and is growing rapidly. It also offers a database search service to retailers, pawnbrokers, jewellers, auction houses and collectors, which allows them to check the status of a watch prior to transactions. It is the central database used by police forces, insurance companies and theft victims to register and recover losses. THE WATCH REGISTER team run the largest international database of lost and stolen watches available for due diligence, which also includes frauds as well as fake watches.

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