The 1916 Company / WatchBox Pre-Owned Watch Listings Scraper
The 1916 Company / WatchBox Pre-Owned Watch Listings Scraper
Scrapes pre-owned luxury watch listings from The 1916 Company (formerly WatchBox + Govberg + Radcliffe) — the largest certified pre-owned luxury watch dealer in the United States. Delivers a complete inventory snapshot with pricing, condition, and spec-table details for every pre-owned and Rolex Certified Pre-Owned listing.
What You Get
Each record includes:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
product_url |
Canonical listing URL |
sku |
Internal product ID |
name |
Full product name |
brand |
Watch brand (Rolex, Patek Philippe, TUDOR, H. Moser, Oris, etc.) |
model |
Model family |
reference_number |
Manufacturer reference number |
price_usd |
Listed price in USD |
currency |
Always USD |
availability |
InStock or OutOfStock |
condition |
Pre-Owned / Rolex Certified Pre-Owned |
description |
Full product description |
image_url |
Primary product image (watchbox-cdn.imgix.net) |
image_urls |
All gallery image URLs |
year |
Production year (where listed) |
box_papers |
Box and papers status (e.g. "Box: Yes, Papers: Yes") |
lastmod |
Sitemap lastmod timestamp (price/availability freshness signal) |
scraped_at |
ISO timestamp of when this record was scraped |
How It Works
The actor walks The 1916 Company's XML product sitemaps (sitemap-products-1.xml through sitemap-products-N.xml), which contain the full product URL set with per-URL <lastmod> freshness timestamps and primary <image:loc> thumbnails. It filters to pre-owned paths (/pre-owned/ and /rolex-certified-pre-owned/) and crawls each detail page to extract:
- JSON-LD
@type:Product— name, brand, model, SKU, price, currency, availability, condition, description, and primary image - PDPSpecs spec table — year, box/papers status, and reference number for standard pre-owned listings
- RlxCpoSpecs spec table — reference number for Rolex Certified Pre-Owned listings
No JavaScript rendering or proxy is required — all pages are server-side rendered.
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems |
Integer | Yes | Maximum number of listings to return (default: 10) |
Sample Output
{
"product_url": "https://www.the1916company.com/pre-owned/tudor/pelagos/pelagos-25717n-0001/",
"sku": "5046635",
"name": "TUDOR Pelagos",
"brand": "TUDOR",
"model": "Pelagos",
"reference_number": "25717N-0001",
"price_usd": 4250,
"currency": "USD",
"availability": "InStock",
"condition": "Pre-Owned",
"description": "Pre-Owned Tudor Pelagos FXD (25717N) self - winding automatic watch...",
"image_url": "https://watchbox-cdn.imgix.net/posted-product-images/...",
"image_urls": ["https://watchbox-cdn.imgix.net/posted-product-images/..."],
"year": "2023",
"box_papers": "Box: Yes, Papers: Yes",
"lastmod": "2026-05-28T13:14:34-05:00",
"scraped_at": "2026-05-28T18:46:00.000Z"
}
Use Cases
- Watch arbitrage — Compare 1916 CPO pricing against Chrono24 resale and Jomashop grey-market listings to identify flip opportunities
- Price intelligence — Track pricing trends for specific references across the CPO market
- Inventory monitoring — Monitor availability changes using the
lastmodfreshness signal andavailabilityfield - Brand research — Survey the full pre-owned inventory for a specific brand or model family
Notes
- Covers the full pre-owned and Rolex Certified Pre-Owned inventory (approximately 5,000–10,000 active listings across multiple sitemap shards)
- The
lastmodtimestamp from the XML sitemap reflects when the listing was last updated (price change, availability change, or new listing) - The Rolex Certified Pre-Owned section uses a different page layout — year and box/papers are embedded in the description rather than the spec table
- New (non-pre-owned) Rolex and brand-new watch pages are excluded; the actor targets only pre-owned inventory paths