Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phil, So does Leica, Rolleiflex, Porsche, BMW, and Walther. As does Nikon and Mitsubishi. So what? Jerry Philippe Orlent wrote: > BTW, Tutima has a bit of a WWII past... > > > > Op 28-mei-07, om 21:44 heeft Rob McClure het volgende geschreven: > >> 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/) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________