ChristianDK
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Terrible story
But we can all learn from this.Scammers get more and more sophisticated. Sometimes, because we love watches and want to share our passion, we take risk and can be a bit naive. Especially if someone talks the language of watches. It doesn’t necessarily mean we can trust them. The watch community used to be a small dedicated crowd. Now it is a huge thing with all kinds.
I hope your friend will recover these watches and justice will happen.
ALERT STOLEN WSTCHES ALERT
From a fellow collector Was in london at the ritz Help spread the word ...
Was supposed to be a gtg with collectors turned out they were thieves
They had plenty of knowledge and discussions So the poor guy brought these watches along and while in discussion placed the bag next to him One guy went to toilet the other on made phone call the third remained with him to distract him Bag was gone
Watches are not the only thing they are knowledgeable as we can see...
Where he met them to arrange GTG... forums, Instagram?
Thank you for giving us this information...
The reason I ask is so that we should all learn form this and hopefully prevent it happening within our community. Which forum did he arrange the GTG on ?
Reading it, already hurts.
I can feel his pain from here. You can't trust anyone nowadays, very sad. Vte
Terrible story, very sorry for your friend! Thanks for these details, and should you receive further info (including pics, the 5711 movement numbers, etc.), please continue to share.
The details of this robbery are a sad reminder to unfortunately be always alert with our watches, in all situations. Cheers.
The rules are ..
Announcement of any get-together (GTG) in the forum is prohibited unless WatchProSite staff are involved in the GTG. If no WatchProSite staff is involved, the GTG post will be deleted without notice.
Question
If those are the rules (which I can understand) then what are your views on following two issues: - thru the forum and in a thread discussion another fellow purist and me (we don’t know each other besides this forum) enthusiastically agreed to meet when I...
Hi Jurry...
The rules about Official GTG’s are in place to protect members of our community. That is why ... Announcement of any get-together (GTG) in the forum is prohibited unless WatchProSite staff are involved in the GTG. If no WatchProSite staff is involved, the...
This is a dirty and terrible thing. Sorry to hear about this person's trouble.
This clearly was an organized and planned out theft as well. Very sad.
Terribly Sad!
As much as I sympathize with the loss of your friends beautiful timepieces, I am very glad that he was not physically attacked. More watches will be available to him.
Yeah but I didn’t write it
I wrote the text in the post and I mentioned the RITZ not the RITZ Carlton
I wouldn't be surprised if the watches are sold by unscrupulous dealers or auction houses...
Is Antiquorum still in business? They might end up there! I've heard from two trustworthy collectors whom I know and have met on multiple occasions who saw their stolen watches on Antiquorum. Best way to track these thieves is to establish how the initial...
I’m still very surprised by this as...
If it’s “The Ritz” at 150 Piccadilly London, the security is usually very good.
They reported to the police but no serious action yet
The incident happened two or three days ago Plus there have been a huge number of robberies of watches in london and not a single reaction done It’s sad but true
How did your friend connect with these people in the first place ?...
I ask so that we can all learn from this. Not to judge your friend.
So apparently he met them through Chrono24
From there through mobile He met them first time and didn’t bring any watch with him Where as they came loaded wearing Nautilus and AP skeletons So it seems they walked the walk and talked the talk if you know what I mean It seems all preplanned
His mistake was meeting them...
Thank you for following this up. I feel for his loss and hope that we can help him in someway.
The police will do nothing as its not there priority (in there opinion)
Never heard anything from the Spanish police after they robbed my watch . Its so sad these things happen more and more nowadays. Its starting to takeaway the fun of wearing a nice watch .
it really is crazy
I would have never expected to be safer to wear expensive watches in Bucharest than in London. But it really is.
Sickening
ugh, makes me rethink the many times I have enthusiastically met with other collectors while traveling. Sincere hope that this person is reunited one day with the stolen pieces. Be careful out there! Colton
If there's any justice in this world, the thieves will be caught . . .
. . . and extradited to Riyadh. ;-)
Well, they could have a return flight, I suppose . . .
. . . but no need for arm-rests.
Terrible story
But we can all learn from get more and more sophisticated. Sometimes, because we love watches and want to share our passion, we take risk and can be a bit naive. Especially if someone talks the language of watches. It doesn’t necessarily mean we can trus...
Stolen Ulysses
I had a watch stolen from my house in NJ. The police came and did a report and had absolutely no interest in helping me. Very disappointing
Honestly, London is becoming more and more like New York back in the 80s!!
I got robbed outside a restaurant in Mayfair on Monday all caught on cctv and as mentioned here police didn’t seem that interested as I came to no bodily harm apart from a push. Luckily they were only interested in my bag and didn’t attempt to grab my wat...
Terrible world we live in
And LONDON seems to be very unsafe nowadays for wearing any luxury watch. A good friend from China got his RM stolen from his wrist after exiting a restaurant. The robbers were clearly helped and tipped from inside the restaurant as they were awaiting him...
