for those lucky enough

[Apache]

to have a nice watch, be careful who you take it to for a service or repair. I entered a jewellers to get my wife's watch regulated in time to hear the owner tell some unfortunate woman that the innards of her £3000 hand made swiss watch had been substituted for a cheap miyota movement and was now worthless

[Eighteeteewhy]

Fake from the start?

[andy tims]

Eighteeteewhy said:

Fake from the start?

Very probably

[Justayellowbadge]

3k ladies' watch probably had an eta quartz in it and would be replaceable for very reasonable money.

Jeweller was trying it on, I suspect.

[Mart-1]

I was collecting a watch from the Jaeger leCoultre Bond Street boutique when a well dressed woman came in and I think asked an assistant to look at her JLC to do something to it. She was rather shocked to be told that it wasn't a genuine JLC, and left rather embarrassed.

I wondered if it was a dodgy gift from her hubby

"Happy birthday darling, I bought you that JLC you always wanted"

[NDA]

Had a girl in my office sporting a Rolex that her boyfriend bought her..... I didn't have the heart to tell her it was a £10 fake, he told her it was a real one....