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Burglars stole my watches. What now?

Post29 Jan 2015, 23:14

Hi gang!

Long time no see, but now I need your WIS consolation.

When I came home this afternoon, someone had kicked in my door and stolen my watches. Just that. Everything else seems to be here, including a fairly new cell phone. (OK, it's a Nokia 106, but don't spoil the story, will ya.)

The two missing pieces are:
1. Longines Conquest V.H.P. Quartz from 1996 with a stainless steel folding bracelet
2. Ventura v-tech alpha, the original design by Wettstein, not the new ugly one, with a black military-ish watch strap! (I like that strap even more now, because it will increase the chances I recognise the watch on e-bay by at least one order of magnitude.)

Now, this may verge on heresy in this forum, but I think I will miss the Longines the most. First of all, the alpha broke twice before the guarantee expired. I also realise that finding something akin to the Longines will be really hard today.

The reason is the watch market's long-lasting infatuation for oversized watches. The 1996 Conquest V.H.P. is smaller than 40 mm in diameter (with some margin), definitely thinner than 10 mm, yet it was (nominally) waterproof to 10 ATM! A dress watch you can go sailing and swimming with. I always left it on my wrist when I went to the sauna.

My impression is that I you want anything which can take a dunk, you must put up with enormous hunks on you wrist.

Please tell me I am wrong!

p.s. The big joke of the evening: The police asked if I had the door chain on. Well, I do have slender arms, but I cannot activate the door chain from the outside. (...and no, I don't usually leave my home through the windows on the second floor)
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Re: Burglars stole my watches. What now?

Post30 Jan 2015, 01:04

Sorry to hear about the theft of your watches - it is not always a nice world that we live in! Hopefully the police will get lucky and catch the b**t**ds. :bang:

Did you record the serial numbers of the watches that were stolen?
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Post30 Jan 2015, 18:46

Or a few pictures..so we have an idea how they looked like.
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serial number, pictures (Re: Burglars stole... )

Post30 Jan 2015, 19:24

Serial numbers?
Well, I have kept all my papers, so I have the serial numbers for the original watches. This may sound a bit odd, but after the second repair of the Ventura, it got lost on its way back to Hamburg. First Ventura wanted to sell me a new watch, in the end I got a new one, but it was the shop that stepped in and did what Ventura should have done; Take responsibility for sloppy shipping. Anyway, I have the serial number for the original Ventura, but I, as well as the shop, failed to write down the serial number of the replacement.
Hopefully, as I wrote above, I will still be able to identify it, since it is equipped with an armband which isn't from Ventura. The burglars had the original leather band in their hands, but left it here.

As for pictures, the Longines looked like this, except it was all steel:
http://thewatchlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111006-151258.jpg

The Ventura looked like this, except for the band:
http://www.antiwatchman.com/watch/watch0079/other889901.jpg

I have already started to comb e-bay and the local small ad sites. The Ventura should stick out like a sore thumb, since the nearest point of sale is several hundred km away. The Longines may prove a little harder to spot.
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Post31 Jan 2015, 11:44

I also keep my eyes open. It´s not so easy to sell a Ventura unnoticed.
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Re: serial number, pictures (Re: Burglars stole... )

Post01 Feb 2015, 18:10

your_man_in_Hamburg wrote:Serial numbers?
As for pictures, the Longines looked like this, except it was all steel:
http://thewatchlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111006-151258.jpg

On second thought, there is actually a picture of my Longines published in
section 3 my old Synchronar review.
(It is the watch to the left...)
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Re: Burglars stole my watches. What now?

Post05 Feb 2015, 18:52

that's the Horror of every Collector, I'm sorry for your Loss... :cry:
If I see them for sale, i'll let you know.
Good Luck!

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