Our Team
Bizak & Co. is a family business. It began in 1996 in Poland, where our father dealt in art, sculpture and jewellery, and where one of us learned the jeweller's craft as a teenager alongside his older brother. The watches came later. The habits — examine everything, price it honestly, stand behind it — came first.
Who you deal with
You deal with the family directly. There is no call centre and no commissioned sales floor. The person who answers the phone is the person who has handled the watch, and if we do not know the answer to something about a reference, we say so and go and find out.
That matters most on the two occasions where a dealer can quietly cost you money: when you are buying something you have only seen in photographs, and when you are selling something you have owned for years and have no independent read on. In both cases you are relying on the other side's judgement being both competent and disclosed.
How a watch gets into our inventory
Every piece is authenticated in house before it is listed. That means the movement, the case and serial markings, the dial and hands, the bracelet and endlinks, and the papers where they exist. Redials, replaced bezels, aftermarket diamonds and swapped bracelets are the four things we look for first, because they are the four that most often go undisclosed elsewhere.
What we find, we write down. If a watch has been polished, has a service dial, or is missing its box and papers, that appears in the listing rather than in a conversation after you have paid.
How we price
Against the live secondary market, not against a wish. Our asking prices move when the market moves, which is why a reference can be worth less this quarter than last and we will tell you that when you ask what yours is worth. A dealer who quotes you last year's number is not doing you a favour.
Where we are
Sunset Harbour, Miami Beach — 1815 Sunset Harbour Dr., Miami Beach, FL 33139. Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM ET, by appointment so that a specialist is free and the pieces you want to see are out of the safe. Details and directions.
Most of our clients never visit. Every order ships fully insured, and for high-value pieces a member of the family hand-delivers it.
Talk to us
Call (774) 339-9716, email sales@bizakandco.com, or send us a message. If you are weighing two specific references against each other, send us both and we will tell you which one we would keep — including when the answer is neither.
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