Watch Valuation App: How Visual Recognition Works

Visual recognition starts with a resemblance between images. It can help locate a model family or detail, but recognising a shape does not authenticate an individual watch.

Photograph quality changes the result

Reflections, perspective and compression affect lettering, markers and surfaces. A clear frontal view with targeted details is more useful than many similar images. Retain the complete view to preserve relationships between components.

Reference material must be relevant. An authentic service part may differ from original configuration, while an uncommon variation may not appear in the available archive.

Turn a result into a question

Ask which detail differs, which photographs are missing and what needs physical examination. An unexplained score does not answer those questions.

Watch And Check concerns authenticity and components. Image comparison should not be presented as automatic monetary appraisal or certainty about unexamined movement and hidden parts.