Bringing your Chrono24 wear history over
If you tracked your wear history in Chrono24’s Watch Collection (sometimes called “Wristory”), your export imports here as-is — no reformatting, no manual mapping. Here’s exactly what happens to it.
What’s in the export, and where it goes
| Export column | Becomes | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Date worn | The day of the wear | Kept as a plain calendar date — no timezone maths, no shifting by a day. |
| Occasion | The wear’s occasion | Carried across for LeisureTime, Work, Dinner and Vacation. “Unspecified”, or anything else, imports the wear with no occasion rather than failing the row. |
| Watch | Brand and model, as two fields | Split on a known-brand list and tidied — “Seiko Skx Sports Style Gmt” arrives as Seiko / SKX Sports Style GMT. You can turn the tidying off and keep the original names. |
| Link | The watch’s source link | Only kept if it’s a real http or https address, and only to fill in a link the matched watch doesn’t already have — if that watch already has a source link, the Chrono24 one isn’t applied. |
| Created (UTC) | When the entry was first recorded | Provenance only. If it is missing or unreadable the wear still imports. |
What doesn’t carry over
- Photos. The export has no photo data — add your own after importing, if you’d like.
- Purchase price, sale price, dates, and where you bought it. None of these are part of the export. Add them from a watch’s detail page afterward if you want them.
- Reference number and nickname. Left blank on import — fill them in afterward if you’d like.
- Year, box and papers, serial number, warranty date. None of these have an equivalent column in the export, so every imported watch starts with them unset.
- Movement. Not part of the export, so every imported watch starts marked “Unknown” — change it anytime from the watch’s detail page.
- Per-wear notes and straps. The export has no note or strap column, so imported wears start with neither.
- Status. The export has no status of its own, so every imported watch starts marked “In rotation” — change it from the watch’s detail page if it should say sold, stored, or at service instead.
How to bring it in
- Sign in (or start a journal) and open Import from your account.
- Upload the file exactly as it downloaded — no need to open or resave it.
- We detect the Wristory shape automatically, so you go straight to a preview: check the rows, then confirm.
We can’t walk you through Chrono24’s own export screen: their current Watch Collection material no longer lists wear tracking, so any step-by-step we wrote here would be guesswork. If you still have the file, this page tells you exactly what it will do here.
The fine print
- Up to 10,000 rows in a single import — comfortably more than a multi-year wear history.
- Importing the same file twice won’t double your wears, for the common case: rows already logged for the same watch and date are skipped. The one exception is two of your watches sharing the exact same brand and model — Wristory’s export can’t tell them apart, so each import after the first creates another watch instead of matching the one you already have.
- Everything you import is private by default, and you can export it back out any time.
If your file looks different
Only a file with this exact five-column header imports automatically this way. Any other .csv file — including an older or reshaped Chrono24 export saved as CSV — still imports, but you’ll map its columns yourself in the import wizard. Any other spreadsheet — another tracker’s .xlsx, a reshaped workbook, or a .xls or .ods file — should be saved as .csv first.