beano2004

40mm Pam's can only accept 40mm crown guards a 44mm crown guard will not fit.

Having had first hand experience with this ( custom seizure) they look for trade mark makings in every different brand as each one is different and if you cannot prove with a sales receipt from an AD that you bought this watch from they will seize the watch and send pictures to the trade mRk owner like audemars piguet. At that point they AP will make the determination if the watch is genuine... This process listed above take 6 months however if you go down this route and fight them and lose you will e required to pay a hefty sum of fines to the us government which is why almost everyone just gives in and let's them take their watch.

No exact movement....

A tag with that movement just sold for $500 last night they are out there you have to be patient and search after..

Beautiful write up mate....

I would stay clear and fedex and ups those seems to be the biggesred flags. I had the same high dollar franken coming with low dollar value that got stopped and because of some markings on the AP it got seized. I should find out this week what my fate is with this nightmare.

I have first hand knowledge of this and i can tell you that customs has set out to seize all watches coming in no matter what you list.. listing it as a Broken Horological instrument, or timepiece, for repair and return to sender does not work as they still have my Franken AP that I'm fighting for and its been 6 months and an attorney and still nothing in hand. I dont buy anything over seas anymore becasue of this. Gents God Speed. B

that is very nice.. congrats...

No the one I remember had arrows and red lines showing the specific differences including the crown position difference. I might have to make up my own document using some of these including this comparsion. Thanks

I cannot locate the thread that had pictures and pointers of a gen to rep comparsion of a offshore. This is needed to help my fight showing the difference of the two. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. If someone wants more info pm me as I don't want to provide the details in public but its extremely important.

I have been in this situation where I built a franken ap and had it for about six months took several memorable trips with my family and then got tempted with a franken Daytona that I ended up trading it for. I regretted that trade every day I had the Daytona. It took me six months of begging to finally get the ap back and now it will have to be pried off my wrist when I die, it also didnt help that we took a family summer picture so I got reminded every damn day I looked at that picture that was hanging on my wall!