Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One must be very careful buying new watches on the internet. Most quality manufacturers won't permit their authorized dealers to sell directly over the net. As a result the watches sold by online sellers like world of watches, amazon.com dealers, overstock.com, etc. are gray market. This means they were obtained through backdoor deals in foreign countries from dealers, distributors and who-know-who... Sometimes the watches are "Frankenwatches", made from different components or are factory returns. Some sellers grind off the serial number so the origin may not be traced. Usually these gray market watches carry an "international warranty" which is only honored by the seller or some other third party. Some manufactures will not work on gray market watches. Ebay is even scarier. One of the Omega newsgroups monitors the Omega auctions and finds up to Omegas being sold are fakes. I am sure other quality brands have the same issue. Be careful out there! Rob McClure On May 28, 2007, at 2:30 PM, A. Lal wrote: > Here's a price list from an unlikely source: > > http://www.overstock.com/search? > keywords=iwc&resultsPerPage=100&taxonomy=sto4 > > Not sure if the warranty will apply if you buy from them, but you may > want to use this as a guide when negotiating with an authorised > dealer. > ----- Original Message ----- From: <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> > To: <Thinkofcole@aol.com>; <lug@leica-users.org> > Cc: <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>; <glehrer@san.rr.com> > Sent: Monday, 28 May, 2007 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide advice > orsites that > > >> Thanks to Bob and Jerry >> >> I just looked over the Tutima site - very nice. >> >> Do you have a distributor near you so that you can look at the >> watches? >> >> There is no distributor in Canada, only the USA one. >> >> Vick >> >>> >>> From: Thinkofcole@aol.com >>> Date: 2007/05/28 Mon PM 01:42:55 EDT >>> To: lug@leica-users.org >>> CC: glehrer@san.rr.com, vick.ko@sympatico.ca >>> Subject: Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Watches - can you provide advice >>> or sites that >>> >>> Jerry, I, too, was just about to mention the Tutima for Vick...It's >>> in the >>> same price and quality bracket as an IWC and some of the models look >>> very much >>> like the IWC...Tutima also has some models around 36mm...Here's one >>> from >>> Tutima's website...They say they never sell their stuff on the >>> Internet...regards, bob cole >>> >>> _http://www.tutima.de/_ (http://www.tutima.de/) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Rob McClure Upper Sandusky, OH