Same thing happened to my VISA a short time after purchase at another TD. I suspect the Chinese payment gateway has one or more corrupt employees. That's why I now only use paypal.
New great-looking Mark XVII on Angus' site:
http://puretime.co/product/pre-view-mark-xvii-11-best-edition-a2892/
Updated datewheel, dial looks nice, but no bracelet :-(
Opinions?
I tried to contact him. He answered the first PM and offered a very good price, but then he ignored me consistently so could never send my watch. So I sent mine to Wiz despite long waiting times.
It's a very nice strap. The thing that bothers me with straps on the 3717 is that there is a very large empty space between strap and case compared to other watches. The hole in the lugs is far out on the lugs.
Just got one from puretime last week. The watch looks and feels great, stunning quality and feel. Of course it's not perfect, it has some issues: lume pads on 12, 3, 6, 9 are a little different colour and more block-like than gen, the date font has been updated which is not mentioned on their site - now the 7s are correct but the day font is the same as before so they don't really fit each other, also the bracelet SEL fit is bad. Other than that it's my best rep so far.
You gotta post higher resolution pics. Can't see anything. Easiest way to tell if it's fake: check the movement engravings. Real Pateks have beautiful gold engravings on the movement. Replicas have pretty ugly engravings on the rotor only, and almost never any engravings on the rest of the movement.