Ahhhh - may be a false alarm, might not.
Might be he bought it from the guy that bought it from me.... In the meantime Immagonna have a thread here with myself.
Curious.... any particular reasons why you hate to see someone selling a watch that you once owned, other then misrepresenting the service history?
Mine:
I sold a watch to an acquaintance for a very fair price ( friend price ) who then turned around and sold the watch for a substantial profit. Fool me once....
I do get a bit nostalgic when I see one of my old watches.
Once something has left your ownership there is little you can do about how the new owner chooses to use or market it. A few years back I sold my 1969 Mercedes W111 V8 Coupé to a man who put it back up for sale at twice the price with a false history citing it as Australian factory delivered. It wasn't, it was Australian spec delivered in Germany and toured through Europe for 6 months before shipping down under. Tourist Delivery it was called and avoided some tax charges.
There is unfortunately a big difference in value here between a factory delivery and personal import, driven by something prevalent in Europe called rust. As my car had only spent 6 months in Europe rust was not an issue but it was still a personal import and not a factory Australian delivered car. A very nice personal import mind, which is how I sold it at a price I considered fair. At the time I tried to alert people to the truth but the car has since sold on several times taking with it a spurious history created purely out of greed.
The only one that ever ruffled my feathers, so to speak, was when I sold a vintage (which shall go unnamed; it wasn't here) on original matched and un-sized bracelet, only to see the bracelet listed alone for over half the original sale price. The profit didn't bug me, but taking it off the watch it presumably was attached to for 50+ years rankled me. :/
Did not matter to me since it is all pretty new to me.
Sold a nice watch to lurker. I guess a lurker is a 1 post member. Well anyway, sold to the lurker who appeared very excited. About one month later it was for sale by a prominent “Watches for Sale” member. So I assume the lurker lost about $1,000+ on the watch.
Mine:
I sold a watch to an acquaintance for a very fair price ( friend price ) who then turned around and sold the watch for a substantial profit. Fool me once....
