I brought in a Vacheron & Constantin Swiss 18K vintage wrist watch to have it tuned a bit - it was a touch slow.
Simple job in ordinary hands.
"Wanna buy a watch" held onto my watch for three weeks (!!!). I kept calling & asking politely when I could pick it up & if they ran into any problems. Every time, they said "no - it's fine, we just sent it out to a specialist instead of doing it in-house & it takes him a bit longer. We'll call you tomorrow"
Didn't ever get the call back the next day...so each time I waited 3 days & then called myself. Same response each time.
This went on for 3 weeks! Finally, I called & they said,"we have it in, come pick it up".
The first thing I noticed was the odd smell. It smelled like dog doo! Yes! Excrement! Then upon closer inspection, I noticed that the metal band had all of its gaps filled in with a brownish/dark substance! Definitely not there when I left the watch with them & the watch definitely didn't smell like dogcrap when I left it with them.
Un-be-lieveable...!
Best I can figure is that whoever they sent to the watch to somehow allowed his dog to swallow it & then had to wait for it to show up at the "other end".
The whole episode speaks for itself...
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