Shipping Costs Returning an AP from Service

[philster]

During a trip to Italy, my wife’s AP had an issue with some fogging inside the watch. We went to the AP store in Florence where we were told that the watch needed to be sent in for service. We left off our watch at the Florence dealer and they sent in the piece for us. Fast forward a ~8 weeks the watch is ready and the Florence dealer has informed us they are ready to ship the watch back to us.

The service I knew was going to be expensive (1750 Euro) but the shipping costs from Florence back to California seems over the top @ 1150 Euro.

Is it just me? Or am I missing something?

Thanks for your input