• What's the story with fakes sent to ADs/HO for repairs? They just sent back? They're confiscated and burned out back in a pile with all the other fakes? So you then recieve a letter saying you've lost a watch?

  • Different things happen to the fake watches. The owner is informed. Sometimes the dial is destroyed and the watch returned. Sometimes it isn’t returned. In one case where a widow sent in her husband’s old watch, she was returned the fake as delivered to them, since it was a special circumstance.

    I was surprised that they were legally allowed to not return / destroy someone else’s property.

  • Yeah, I don't think they are actually allowed to keep/destroy it under UK law, as its not illegal to own or buy counterfeit goods, only to sell them as genuine being illegal iirc.

  • I assume then if you worried about it, take it to an independent who likes you to check it?

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