For a retail store, becoming an Authorized Rolex Dealer is a big boon for business. Rolex is incredibly discriminating when identifying stores that can bear the title, and once granted, they continually ensure that their Authorized Rolex stores adhere to the brand’s uncompromising standards.

During last year’s Original Miami Beach Antique Show (OMBAS), mixed in among the Miami-themed décor and the treasure hunt of exhibitor stands, were large scale sculptures created by celebrated artist, Gino Miles. Working in both monumental and small dimensions since the 1970’s, Gino is primarily inspired by 20th Century European masters such as Moore, Brancusi, Archipenko and Marini.

In the luxury market, customers are often courted into making purchases and rewarded for their showcase of loyalty to a store or a brand. A returning client may have a chilled bottle of champagne waiting for them upon their next appointment, or their lunch paid for at the bistro next door after they’ve left the shop. Good sales associates remember birthdays and important milestones, they memorize coffee and scotch preferences and pets’ names, children’s birthdays. Yet when it comes to a Birkin, the perennial “It” handbag by French luxury design house Hermès, prospective buyers are the ones doing all of the wooing.