The pre-owned market for luxury watches is expected to surpass its primary counterpart within the next decade. This unprecedented growth in demand and circulation of pre-owned watches presents a unique challenge for the insurance industry. High-value transactions, global movement of goods, and limited regulatory oversight create an environment uniquely vulnerable to insurance fraud. According to research from The Watch Register, approximately one in ten watches located have led to insurance fraud investigations.

Join Antonia Kimbell and Abeer Almahdi from The Watch Register for an industry-focused webinar exploring the growing threat of insurance fraud within the luxury watch sector. Designed for SIU professionals, claims adjusters, investigators, and insurance practitioners, this session combines real-world case studies with practical investigative insights to help attendees better understand emerging fraud trends, identify red flags, and strengthen fraud prevention strategies.

What You’ll Learn

• Real-world case studies from The Watch Register
• Common fraud methodologies, including mysterious disappearance claims, counterfeit watches, and duplicate claims
• The significance of box and papers
• The growing threat posed by counterfeit watches and increasingly sophisticated “superfakes”
• The role of cross-border organised crime networks
• How to ask the right questions at the point of underwriting and/or claim

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from specialists working at the forefront of luxury watch fraud investigations and gain practical knowledge to enhance your fraud detection and investigative capabilities.

Instructor Bios:

The Watch Register is the world’s largest international database of lost, stolen, and counterfeit watches. Founded in 2014 as a specialist service of the Art Loss Register, The Watch Register leverages more than 35 years of expertise in recording and recovering lost and stolen high value luxury assets and cultural property, in the preowned watch market. Headquartered in London, UK, the Art Loss Register was founded in 1990 by former Lloyd’s of London insurance broker Julian Radcliffe with the support of the art trade and insurance industry.

Today, the combined database contains more than 700,000 uniquely identifiable items, including over 125,000 items registered through The Watch Register, representing an estimated value of more than $2.6 billion in watches alone.

Antonia Kimbell is the Senior Recoveries Manager at The Watch Register, where she leads business development initiatives within the insurance sector and law enforcement. Having joined the Art Loss Register in 2002, Antonia has developed extensive expertise in the recovery of stolen art and luxury watches and in brokering resolutions to ownership disputes. Her work has included complex, high-value cases, including the investigation and resolution of a fraudulent £7 million insurance claim involving nine museum-quality paintings.

Abeer Almahdi is a Recoveries and Business Development Associate at The Watch Register, where she manages recoveries on behalf of loss adjusters and develops strategic partnerships within the insurance industry. Prior to joining The Watch Register, Abeer completed her MA at McGill University, where her award-winning research focused on investigating the provenance of cultural property with little or no documented ownership history, such as contemporary circulations of Egyptian ‘mummies’ in private collections.