Does anyone know anything about this seller?

[teddy boy]

I've been thinking about buying a new gen and I came upon this website that sells what they proport to be gen watches at a big discount. I'm thinking about buying either a Breitling Super Ocean, an Omega Planet Ocean or an Omega Constellation. This site has all of those watches at serious discounts. Any input on which watch to buy would also be welcome.

I've never been able to make a link work so I'll just paste in the site.

http://www.authenticwatches.com/index.html

[anton]

I've been thinking about buying a new gen and I came upon this website that sells what they proport to be gen watches at a big discount. I'm thinking about buying either a Breitling Super Ocean, an Omega Planet Ocean or an Omega Constellation. This site has all of those watches at serious discounts. Any input on which watch to buy would also be welcome.

I've never been able to make a link work so I'll just paste in the site.

http://www.authenticwatches.com/index.html

it's definitely a gen website. notice that the watches in demand are given a 0-10% discount whereas models abundant in supply are given deeper discounts. since i'm partial to breitling, i would always recommend the superocean. but the PO and SO are both very beautiful watches.

Edited July 3, 2007 by anton

[Corgi]

I've been wondering about a few of these sites myself. Let's see here...

http://www.jomashop.com/ (by far the biggest one I know)

https://www.gemnation.com/index.jsp

http://www.atlantictime.com/index.aspx

http://www.finestwatches.com

http://www.alanfurman.com/ (this one is so graphic-heavy that my computer almost stalled)

http://www.thewatchery.com

...all of these guys offer huge, huge savings on big-time genuine luxury brand name items. I would love to know if these are legit, because there are indeed some good savings to be had in terms of pens, etc.

[boston21]

I've been wondering about a few of these sites myself. Let's see here...

http://www.jomashop.com/ (by far the biggest one I know)

https://www.gemnation.com/index.jsp

http://www.atlantictime.com/index.aspx

http://www.finestwatches.com

http://www.alanfurman.com/ (this one is so graphic-heavy that my computer almost stalled)

http://www.thewatchery.com

...all of these guys offer huge, huge savings on big-time genuine luxury brand name items. I would love to know if these are legit, because there are indeed some good savings to be had in terms of pens, etc.

I have bought 2 Gucci watches for the better half from Jomashop and I was very pleased. Definitely a gen site.

[Kollektor]

I've been thinking about buying a new gen and I came upon this website that sells what they proport to be gen watches at a big discount. I'm thinking about buying either a Breitling Super Ocean, an Omega Planet Ocean or an Omega Constellation. This site has all of those watches at serious discounts. Any input on which watch to buy would also be welcome.

I've never been able to make a link work so I'll just paste in the site.

http://www.authenticwatches.com/index.html

I've posted about them before. I'm convinced that they're legit. Spoken to them on the phone about a gen I was interested in. They had very good ratings on Ebay (check to make sure it's still the case). Keep in mind that many of their prices are based on models with removed serial numbers. You will have to pay an additional $150 - $200 to get the model with serial if it is not already advertised as such.

Watch companies make their authorized dealers sell at certain prices to qualify them as ADs. These guys buy in bulk from ADs without reporting to the manufacturer. The serial is removed when the price is below the threshold. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a gen from them. I'd also pay the extra cash to get a proper serial if resale will ever be an issue for you (clearly, you'll almost always lose money on a watch sale unless it's a Rlx, so the serial thing may make matters worse). My local bricks and mortar AD was able to match their price so I went with them to give them the business.

If I recall, their warranty service is a bit dodgy. Only through them and no others, whether ADs or not. Otherwise the warranty is voided. Great deals on Breits, Omgs, Ors, etc. Let us know what happens...

[teddy boy]

I've posted about them before. I'm convinced that they're legit. Spoken to them on the phone about a gen I was interested in. They had very good ratings on Ebay (check to make sure it's still the case). Keep in mind that many of their prices are based on models with removed serial numbers. You will have to pay an additional $150 - $200 to get the model with serial if it is not already advertised as such.

Watch companies make their authorized dealers sell at certain prices to qualify them as ADs. These guys buy in bulk from ADs without reporting to the manufacturer. The serial is removed when the price is below the threshold. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a gen from them. I'd also pay the extra cash to get a proper serial if resale will ever be an issue for you (clearly, you'll almost always lose money on a watch sale unless it's a Rlx, so the serial thing may make matters worse). My local bricks and mortar AD was able to match their price so I went with them to give them the business.

If I recall, their warranty service is a bit dodgy. Only through them and no others, whether ADs or not. Otherwise the warranty is voided. Great deals on Breits, Omgs, Ors, etc. Let us know what happens...

Thanks to everyone for the respones. I'm at a bit of a conundrum as to what to do. I went to the Omega AD today and tried on the Seamaster 300 and the Planet Ocean. Both were nice watches, the AD had an excellent price on the Seamaster 300. It was $1475, actually less than what the websites are asking. The Planet Ocean is clearly a better looking watch with a better movement, but it's not twice the watch. The conundrum is that neither watch looks appreciably better than my good reps. I have an Ingenieur that is every bit the overall quality of either one of the two Omegas. The real conundrum is that I could purchase reps of all the watches I'm interested in and have almost a cool $1000 left over from what I would spend on the cheapest of the gens I'm considering. I think I'll consider this whole thing awhile before I do anything. I was really surprised by the relative quality of the gens to my best reps. I really expected there to be a big difference. The difference just isn't all that great.

[Stephane]

Hi all,

I'm an happy customer of the www.authenticwatches.com one.

I got 2 watches from them at good prices.

One I paid (custom taxes, vat and shipping included) around 1.100

[Victoria]

I've been thinking about buying a new gen and I came upon this website that sells what they proport to be gen watches at a big discount. I'm thinking about buying either a Breitling Super Ocean, an Omega Planet Ocean or an Omega Constellation. This site has all of those watches at serious discounts. Any input on which watch to buy would also be welcome.

I've never been able to make a link work so I'll just paste in the site.

http://www.authenticwatches.com/index.html

I'm going to give you another link, which you can use as a compare-contrast reference guide.

PLEASE use it at your own discretion, but I've bought gens from them, and have no complaints so far.

They don't even charge your credit card if they don't have the watch in stock at that very moment, which sometimes can take a few days to get. Emails are so-so, but delivery is very prompt (1 week tops, in my experience, priority shipping @ no charge), and they do have a customer service number.

http://www.jacobtime.com/

[Victoria]

I have bought 2 Gucci watches for the better half from Jomashop and I was very pleased. Definitely a gen site.

http://www.jomashop.com/audemars-piguet-67...-d062cr-01.html

Gag me with a spoon! "Ladies watch". WTF.

[Jumbie]

I've bought from Jomashop as well.

Speedy delivery. Only thing, like mentioned, is that because they are a grey market dealer you need to do all warranty work, etc. through them.

[Kollektor]

I'm going to give you another link, which you can use as a compare-contrast reference guide.

PLEASE use it at your own discretion, but I've bought gens from them, and have no complaints so far.

They don't even charge your credit card if they don't have the watch in stock at that very moment, which sometimes can take a few days to get. Emails are so-so, but delivery is very prompt (1 week tops, in my experience, priority shipping @ no charge), and they do have a customer service number.

http://www.jacobtime.com/

I think there's a commerce statute of sorts that no online company selling PRODUCTS (not services) is supposed to charge your card until the product is shipped--otherwise they are in breach of terms of their merchant accounts. Not sure about this, but seem to recall it being so...