FabR[Senior Patek Moderator]
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Thank-You Patrick for a great and most useful post. If big league collectors also get conned, as in your example of Bill Koch, there's indeed good reason for everybody to be careful.
Nov 08, 2018,16:24 PM
Personally, I've never tried to buy from auction houses yet, in part because of these unfortunate stories that periodically pop up. (In fact, I've bought all of my watches at ADs so far, though I realize I'm a fairly extreme example in this sense
Some other good and not necessarily obvious advice I've often heard is to never buy the first few times that we attend an auction, and likewise, to always inspect in advance all items that we are potentially interested in.
In general, it does make sense, at this sport like at any other, to make sure to learn the rules *very* well before starting to play... And this is a sport that features lots of skilled players! ;-)