Alert: Major Theft To Report

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Chye

·Oct 27, 2019

so sorry to hear about your loss, will keep a lookout for them.

Chye

 

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verithingeoff

·Oct 27, 2019

What a dreadful thing to happen. Hope you get some help from the cops, a collection like that is worth them putting in some effort....good luck mate

 

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bdp

·Oct 27, 2019

Sorry to hear, I feel gutted just reading about it, cant imagine how you must feel.
Hope you have some luck in getting at least some of them back.
Will keep an eye out downunder for you.

 

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Dgercp

·Oct 27, 2019

Sickening and I am so sorry Adam. I will keep eyes wide open.

 

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blubarb

·Oct 27, 2019·IG: #blubarb19

So sorry Adam. Incredibly devastating!

 

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blubarb

·Oct 27, 2019·IG: #blubarb19

Just a quick BOLO list that is easy to print and keep by your computer or elsewhere.

Trilogy is # 1181 / 3557

Edited: Oct 28, 2019

 

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river rat

·Oct 27, 2019

Sorry this happened was born in Oakland would not live there it has changed to much. You mite check out NAWCC chapter 5 mart the thief mite of sold them to another watch collectors who don’t know there stolen and that collector mite try selling them at the mart. They have it in San Leandro every other month. Just a long shot. Hope you get your stuff back. For apartments a small safe can fit underneath the sink cabinet in the bathroom or in the kitchen cabinet bolted down no one sees it so no one knows your business I did that before I bought a house.

Edited: Oct 27, 2019

 

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abrod520

·Oct 27, 2019

Thanks everyone for the support, help, and suggestions. I immediately reached out to dealers and prominent collectors in the Bay Area, and I'm waiting for the police to issue the official report so I can upload it to the online registries and databases, and send to the auction houses.

 

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ahsposo

·Oct 27, 2019·Most fun screen name at ΩF

Is there any security cameras in your building? Anything?

 

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abrod520

·Oct 27, 2019

ahsposo

Is there any security cameras in your building? Anything?

There may be, they mentioned that they would look, but they're currently in the process of upgrading security so the thief/ves may have taken the opportunity to do this while they had the best chance

 

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ICONO

·Oct 27, 2019

Adam, I am so sorry …Very best wishes for their recovery

 

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tikkathree

·Oct 27, 2019

Nobel Prize

So sorry to hear. A contractor stole two of my watches a couple of months ago. target of opportunity though because I had the box with the omega/Rolex/jaeger etc on a shelf and right in front of it there where two shinola automatics....they took the two shinola and left about 100g of watches on the shelf.

Needles to say, all back in the safe now.

Good luck

Kinda make you think about "sacrificial" lower value watches. I'm sure there's no real logic in it.

I'm also reminded that whilst I tend to have photos of all my watches I really do need to create a database with all salient details.

 

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tikkathree

·Oct 27, 2019

Adam, absolutely terrible news and i hope you'll get a better response from the police in your area than I'd be likely to get in my area. Property crime, limited traceability, no firearms involved: nope I really wouldn't expect more than an incident number.
Heck, I hope you have much better success than that.

 

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befobe

·Oct 27, 2019

blubarb

Just a quick BOLO list that is easy to print and keep by your computer or elsewhere.

Thanks for that.

@abrod520
Your pictures are great, OF community is big, I think that everybody will have a special look on all adds talking about these so nice watches.
Awfull news for sure.

 

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ATWG

·Oct 27, 2019

Really saddens me to read post such as this. Your collection is the envy of most watch enthusiasts.

I have my eyes open on the East coast for you.

Good luck.

 

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Nobel Prize

·Oct 27, 2019

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.

 

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monti

·Oct 27, 2019

Very sad news Hope the find their way home.

 

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watchdaddy1

·Oct 27, 2019

Any new updates Adam ?

 

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MCC

·Oct 27, 2019

Absolutely terrible, that was a very nice collection of watches

 

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mayankyadav

·Oct 27, 2019

Unbelievable. I had to read twice to grasp it. Hope the thieves are caught soon