There, sharing a parking lot with a hodgepodge of businesses including an H&R Block, a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant and a “vape and hemp smoke shop,” is a nondescript office space that serves as the mailing address for TheBestWatchesOnEarth LLC, the company behind the new line of Trump watches. The building houses a daycare, but there is no sign of the watches Trump says, “puts you in a very exclusive club.”

Little is known or discoverable about the company now working with the Republican nominee for president, including the person or persons behind it. The lack of public details about Trump’s new business partner are a feature of where and how the limited liability corporation was created. And like other ventures Trump has launched while running for president, these watches are the result of an opaque arrangement prompting questions his campaign hasn’t answered and which couldn’t be resolved even by knocking on the door of the business’ listed address.

CNN found dozens of other companies that claim the address as their own, too, including a separate limited liability corporation selling Trump-themed sneakers through a licensing agreement with the former president. Some are as far flung as a Washington, DC, lobbying firm that represents the government of Montenegro, while others have left little trace of their whereabouts.

Another company linked to the address has a name that is evocative of TheBestWatchesOnEarth LLC. It’s registered to the same address as Kingdom Honey LLC, which also goes by TheBestHoneyOnEarth on its online retail store, the Royal Honey Shop. There it sells “Male Enhancement Honey” products – some of which the Food and Drug Administration has warned people not to consume after it found they contained the erectile dysfunction drug used in Viagra.

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