my concern is more on the fact that if you buy from an AD with a proper warranty, you could always send the watch for servicing, polishing during the warranty period. And during the rare chance that it does break down, it can be serviced directly by the manufacturer. For a watch from Jomas, everything has to be sent to them and if you do send to a distributor locally, the charges will be quite high. Added to the fact that if you ever want to sell the watch, the value will be lower due to lack of proper papers. These factors to me are important! furthermore, to me at least, it is not that much cheaper! So I will still go to the AD.