Most adults would recognise they were being needled and the mature thing to do is not rise to the bait, or respond to it in an adult manner.
I don't consider swearing to be the usual response of an intelligent adult, do you? I know we all do it from time to time, but from your first response the only impression I can take from it is that its your usual mode of reply if you disagree with what someone has said to you (or maybe how it's been said) I hope that's the wrong impression though?
What was wrong with saying something like "Thanks, but I have done a bit of searching and this is what I've found (list X, Y and Z), but I can't find any info on A, B and C?"
Proves you can rise above the jibe, saves your blood pressure getting annoyed at anyone and will make the original responder look a little bit of a lemon for jumping the gun.
Life's too short to get annoyed and have arguments left, right and centre.
Anyway, my Breitling rep I got from Joshua and its good apart from the crown / tube threads being dodgy, it only screws in about half a turn from when I got it.