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So, with my wife's help taking product photos, we started this side hustle part-time. To my surprise, within 6 months, we had sold a $9,650 limited edition Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. I made $1,100 on that deal, which was real money at the time.

Over the next few years, I continued juggling my demanding corporate job with this growing watch business. I would leave for work at 5:15 AM, come home at 7:30 PM, and then work on the watch side venture until 2 AM some nights. It was an exhausting grind, but I could see the potential.

Eventually, I reached a point where my watch business was bringing in an income and a half of what I was making at the bank. That's when I made the tough decision to leave the corporate world and go all-in on my watch venture. The rest, as they say, is history.