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Originally Posted by greekbum
I have no beef in this whatsoever but has anybody proven the crystal to be a fake or counterfeit? There is a lot of emotions here as to somebody selling counterfeit parts on a watch and imho this is totally wrong and misleading. No they have not and i will tell you right here why they have not and cannot. Rolex did not make there own crystals in this time period and they are not marked as Rolex. So if 1 uses the word or term counterfeit they are wrong and i doubt that Rolex would write this on any Rolex letter head estimate. 2 non Rolex crystal term or wording would even be 100% correct as they did not make the crystal to begin with. So crystal gurus out the please tell us how on this specific crystal one can claim counterfeit or even aftermarket? Please produce a document from Rolex that says the crystal is counterfeit. If I bought a watch from somebody and I thought a part was fake etc i would think i would have to prove it to try and get something out of the seller. Im done here but would really like to see a document on how somebody came to the conclusion the crystal was counterfeit? Anybody?
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I do not know how other Trusted Sellers handle this kind of situation. I know how Nick handles it.
I bought a matt dial GMT 16750 from him. It looked pretty good, Nick takes some great photographs, and the clincher was it had been checked out by a CW21 watch repairer. It came exactly as described.
I liked dealing with Nick so well; I bought a matt dial Sea Dweller 16660 from him. It also came exactly as described, except the pin on the clasp, holding it to the bracelet seemed a little wonky. I sent him pictures and he told me to send it to ABC Watchwerks and have them fix it.
I told him the 16750 was off by 25 seconds a day. He said it should not do that and to send it to ABC.
I like to know who I am dealing with, so I drove down to ABC. I was quite impressed by the knowledge and service by everyone there.
They took the 16660 in for repair and looked at the 16750.
I am a watch guy, not a technician, so please excuse me if I get the vernacular wrong. They said something about the rotor being slightly bent. They repaired it while I was there. In the next couple of weeks the 16750 was now running about 20 seconds off.
When I got the call that the 16660 was repaired, I picked it up. ABC does great work and I was very happy about the repair. I dropped off the 16750 to have them take a look at it and why it was 20 seconds off.
I got a call back from ABC apologizing that there was much more wrong (they told me what it was and it went over my head, I think it had something to do with rotor alignment
) with the watch and it needed a full service. ABC gave us a discounted price, and Nick and I agreed to split the cost.
Would I buy another watch from Nick, yes! When I look at the sales section, I always look at his ads. He is what I look for in a Trusted Seller.
The CW21 watch repairer, not so much. That was a pretty big goof! jmho