{"id":70312,"date":"2021-10-07T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=70312"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:35:42","slug":"channel-4-commissions-fresh-episodes-of-fly-on-the-wall-show-about-xupes-pre-owned-watch-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/channel-4-commissions-fresh-episodes-of-fly-on-the-wall-show-about-xupes-pre-owned-watch-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 commissions fresh episodes of fly on the wall show about Xupes pre-owned watch business"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team at Xupes, one of the UK’s leading certified pre-owned watch businesses, became TV stars earlier this year when Channel 4 aired a fly on the wall documentary about buying and selling top end timepieces, jewellery and handbags.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the docu-series has been commissioned for additional episodes that will air next year.<\/p>\n

The original show, Second Hand for 50 Grand, followed the life and work of Xupes co-founder and CEO Joe McKenzie and his team of experts as they seek out exquisite examples of luxury pre-owned goods, bring them back to mint condition in their Bishop Stortford workshops, and sell them on.<\/p>\n

It was shot at Xupes UK headquarters, known as the Wheat Barn, a converted 17th century barn with dedicated client spaces as well as a fully equipped watchmaking centre, professional photography studio and office space for their 50 staff.<\/p>\n

“Xupes has some exciting months ahead and with the success of its TV show on Channel 4 earlier this year there will be further episodes to follow in 2022,” WATCHPRO was told exclusively today.<\/p>\n

The exciting months ahead will be under new ownership after Chrono24’s parent organisation, MPN Marketplace Networks GmbH, acquired a majority stake in Xupes.<\/p>\n

Mr McKenzie told WATCHPRO on a recent visit to the company that the partnership could help Xupes treble in size in the coming few years.<\/p>\n

MPN Marketplace Networks GmbH also owns German pre-owned watch specialist Zeitauktion and online watch magazine Fratello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the success of Second Hand for 50 Grand, Xupes will feature in additional episodes that will air next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7024,2],"tags":[11709,10469,2558,9475],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=70312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}