Unsatisfactory Watch Purchase from Florent

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I bought a Polerouter recently that Florent had listed for sale as "Microrotor movement is running perfectly, as expected." When I received the watch, it was not running perfectly, it was running quite fast, on my timegrapher I was getting 358 seconds fast in one position, 279 seconds fast in another, 335 seconds fast in another position.

We had an exchange of private messages about this but I can't say anything about them according to him because the contents of PMs aren't allowed to be posted he said.

I had decided to end the discussion and move on, with my intention of getting the watch fully serviced and hoping that would address the poor time keeping.

But then, when I looked into getting the watch serviced by someone with experience working on Polerouters, it was pointed out to me that with this movement, the cal. 215 "Patent Pending", the dial should have on it the word "microrotor". I did some research using readily available information, including the website universalgenevepolerouter.com, but I couldn't find a reference number for this movement and a dial saying only "Automatic". In discussion with some other people, it appears it would be highly unusual for a Polerouter with this dial and movement combination, that they were not familiar with such a watch. So I now have the added worry that I likely purchased a Polerouter with an incorrect dial. In fairness to Florent, he may not have known this when he put the watch up for sale but the result is I would have difficulty trying to get the correct dial or it will be very expensive. Selling the watch instead, for what I paid for it, will be very unlikely too given the dial discrepancy.
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