iW Magazine Spring 2020 | Page 34

BY GARY GIRDVAINIS IW INTERVIEW: TIM STRACKE, CEO CHRONO24 Chrono 24 is a marketplace for luxury watches that offers buyers and sellers the opportunity to buy, and sell, pre-owned, vintage, and new luxury watches. As iW recently discovered in an interview with Chrono 24 CEO Tim Stracke, Chrono24 does not consider itself strictly as a watch dealer, but instead call itself “a marketplace that provides a service with the technology to connect buyers and sellers, to provide transparency to the market and to make transactions safe through the platform.” Below we excerpt the highlights of our interview. 34 | INTERNATIONAL WATCH | SPRING 2020