Selling precious metals / jewelry in NYC

If you have high-end vintage designer jewelry, there are dealers who will buy those collectable pieces.
If not, you will be selling them for the price-per-ounce of the gold.

Try Peter & Andrew Fabrikant. They work very hard for their clients.

Do NOT & I repeat, Do NOT go to Circa. Their business model is to lowball clients & flip the stuff @ huge markups. Extremely unethical liars & cheats, who actually do not know much about antique, fine or vintage jewelry.

sammy300 is right. On average, Circa quoted me ~22% of the original value of my fine jewelry.

All very true for quality vintage jewelry, sammy and wavedeva.
"Fine jewelry" isn't in the same category as "vintage".

American Jewelry and Loan in Detroit.

I remember the Empire Diamond commercials on the Bernard Meltzer radio show.

keith: you know I'm loling.

I loved Bernie!

Keith: agree! lol!

The watches we are looking to sell are Movado, Raymond Weil, etc. The jewelry is mostly gold chains.

Unless watches are vintage, best to donate to charity for 1/3 purchase price tax write-off. (Up to $5k total donation value, per year.)
See Cathy at Cancer Care Thrift Shop (on Third Ave.&83rdSt.) She will give you a signed receipt.

Sell the chains for value per ounce of the gold.
I gave a friend's daughter a couple of large zip-lock bags full of gold jewelry that I hadn't worn in years.
She kept the pieces she wanted and sold the rest to her neighborhood jewelry store. They tested each piece and weighed in front of her.
(that was last year but you can still make good money selling the gold. Better than leaving it in a drawer.)

For gold u can go to rosin refinery on 47th

You can buy Movado, Raymond Weil, etc. brand new on the grey market for 40-50% off.

I love reading the tax advice on StreetEasy.

flarf: I wasn't giving "tax advice on StreetEasy", only describing the option for the OP to donate his/her wristwatches to a very good charity and the resultant tax write-off for the donation.

chelsea511:
ProInNyc gave you a good reco for selling your gold chains, in Manhattan.
I gave you a good reco for donating your wristwatches to a very reputable charity thrift store in Manhattan.

"flarf" did not give you info, nor any suggestions. Just some flarf, which isn't even enough to make a fluffer-nutter. (You would need some marshmallow "fluff" and lots of peanut butter for that.)