My Purchase of 5712 stopped mid way

[salnuaimi]

So finally decided to pull the trigger and found a good example of 5712 (2021) unworn with majority of the stickers on the bracelet for 103K USD

The price seems around average maybe a tad above but for the condition I was willing to make the exception .

At first checked the paper work and had my guy in patek to verify the warranty dates and the purchase dates and its all good .

Second I knew the AD who sold the watch and sent them a pic of the certificate and they did confirm that they sold this watch to the same gentlemen who his name was on the certificate.

So established from a system and paper prospective I'm good to go .

Today was the appointment for physical inspection of the watch and I did choose a watch maker here in Dubai who is very experienced and having the tools and kits do check .

So we asked for the watch not to be opened and supposed to be brand new .

The Watch maker took his time while myself and the dealer rep were discussing watches in general , the watch maker comes out and hes like I have good and bad news tell me what you want first .

The watch is completly original , the bracelet , case and movement are all perfect and never used. BUT !

but the case has been reopened and this is when we requested to go and see ourselves using his screen. It was evident that a previous watchmaker for whatever reason did open the case and unscrew all 4 screws holding the case where all of them had physical damage most prob for using smaller size screw !

Ok , then the watch maker showed us dust particles on the dial which he is sure because the watch was opened. As well he indicated that the hands have been removed and put back as the round finish of the hands in the middle has gone slightly off . And finally 2 main bridges on the movement had 2 screws which were also damaged due to opening !

This indicated that the watch has been completely dismantled and put back again . I was in shock and so the dealer who then admit that he bought it from a seller who got it from another seller who got it from the main purchaser !

The watchmaker told us clearly its not the first watch he has seen like this and he expect that the watch was dismantled for shipping as spare parts to avoid tax ! and them put back in the final destination .

the sale has been canceled as I didnt feel comfortable after that and now I have even more doubts in the grey market !

was so close today yet too far ... sigh!