Press release
Two Obsessions, One Weekend: WAX Collect at the First Time To Drive
Three days with partners, clients and collectors at Miami's first car and watch festival confirm what WAX was founded on: collectors never collect just one thing
MIAMI, November 8, 2026. WAX Collect, the InsurTech and specialty MGU focused exclusively on luxury assets and collectibles, spent November 6 through 8 at the first Time To Drive, the car and watch festival at Mana Wynwood. Across three days, WAX leadership met partners, clients and collectors from every corner of the collecting world, in the place where two of collecting's biggest passions share one floor.
A first edition that delivered
Time To Drive was founded by Lex Borrero and Perri Dash, with the Miami Watch Club among its partners. Its first edition filled a convention center with cars, watches and collectors, and it still felt personal. WAX thanks the founders, Carlos "CJ" Jimenez and the entire team for three days run with care at a scale where care is hard.
The truth WAX was founded on
Collectors never collect just one thing. Many guests came for the cars and stayed for the watches. A conversation about a vintage chronograph ran straight into a conversation about the car it rode in on, and the same person owned both.
That is the WAX client in one picture: someone who collects across watches, cars, jewelry, art and more, who lives with their pieces, travels with them, drives them and wears them, and who wants protection built for that life rather than for a vault.
A working weekend
WAX leadership sat down with brand executives, retailers and dealers, marketplace operators and the leaders of the collector communities where the hobby gathers. Some of those relationships are years old and had never included a handshake until this weekend. Others began over a first coffee. In between, the team did what it likes most: talking with collectors about their collections, piece by piece and story by story.
"Time To Drive is this community with its guard down," said Rich Vinhais, CEO of WAX Collect. "Nobody is posturing. Everybody is showing somebody the thing they love most, a car, a watch, sometimes both in the same conversation. We met partners we have worked with for years and never shaken hands with, and clients who trusted us with their collections long before they met us. You cannot build protection for collectors from behind a screen. You build it in rooms like this one. Miami set the bar very high, and next time we will have a booth of our own."