I know, but it just hurts to watch how you have to go through this over and over as you post the info- it makes my sick to my stomach to think about how violated you must feel.
Adam,
I have more socks than I know what to do with, some totally unworn. PM if you want, and I’ll send you a few on me. I have plenty of funky color/themed ones if you’re into those.
I have this news up on Instagram with your photo montage, but it would be more easily found and useful if the watch names and serials etc, along with hashtags were all worked out. Has all that text been compiled?
Has a detective been assigned to your case?
I still say Go Fund a PI for the OF victim.
$100 waiting to go.
...Unless anyone knows someone who specializes in asset recovery and who will work for private citizens (not just retailers or law firms).
I have worked with many PI's over the years. There are two types. The quality PI's are the ones who are retired law enforcement officers who served distinguished careers and then moved on to private investigation. Many of them specialized in theft investigations in their former jobs. The second type of PI's are the non former law enforcement types that simply decided to go into the field. IMO stay away from them.
Is there a database somewhere of stolen watches? for example, If I am buying a speedy Tuesday, it would be great if there was one website where I could enter the serial of the watch I'm looking at so it can cross-reference against stolen items. If not then maybe that would be something to look into. It is difficult for a buyer to search a history of stolen items throughout the web. But if all victims had one place to list a serial, model, reference etc then it may really help us all.
No news yet but still trying everything I can. I'm not part of any watch groups on Facebook, but I've seen that some people are able to share this pretty easily. This site also has some recovery stories too so I'd appreciate it if you guys could circulate this a bit.
https://stolen911.com/watch-collection-stolen-in-oakland/
Thank you all again for helping out.
Shared on my FB and IG. The problem is - time is ticking away. I doubt cops are going to do anything later....I like an idea of contacting Hodinkee, maybe they would help to shake it up a bit.
If anybody's got a contact at Hodinkee, I'd appreciate them reaching out and putting me in contact with them. But they don't really do much stories about things like this - they focus more on new watch releases, industry news and on very high end / celebrity collectors. Robert-Jan at Fratello did reach out to write a story about it though so it is at least out there.
Again, thank you to all of you who are sharing, keeping an eye out, making suggestions, and offering thoughts of support. It really does mean a lot to me.
