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Author:  breitlingchronospace [ Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:33 am ]
Post subject:  Breitling warranty from repair?

Hi everyone, I own a Breitling Chronospace - the old version. Last year I had an issue with water damage so I had to pay about $500 to get it repaired... today I woke up and saw that the minute hand on the watch had fallen off and is floating around the dial. My receipt is from the Grigoros repair shop in downtown Toronto and it indicates that the complete service is guaranteed 24 months... am I correct in assuming this would be fixed at no cost? One of the things that was replaced from the water damage was a new minute hand, so i am quite disappointed.

Author:  F14D_Tomcat [ Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Breitling warranty from repair?

If your receipt says so, it should be fixed free of charge.

However, since it involves Grigoros and after what Roff said in the "How long is too long" thread:

Roffensian wrote:
There's no such thing as Breitling Canada. The Canadian distributor is a company called Grigoros who also own the largest Canadian AD - La Swiss (La Suisse in QC).

The guy that runs Grigoros - Harry, uses it as his personal ego trip, but he has no idea how to run a customer facing business - and certainly no concept of customer service. La Swiss is encouraged to compete across stores so you end up with situations where a watch is shown as in stock but the store won't send it to another store because they claim that they are holding it for a customer. Additionally, La Swiss are encouraged to sell watches that Grigoros don't have in order to get the money.

In some ways the situation is worse for non La Swiss ADs as they are reliant on Grigoros for stock, and who do you think get's the pick of the watches?

Finally, Grigoros is outside of the Breitling family and Canada is a small market so not top of the list of priorities for Breitling.

Breitling are unlikely to do anything about it, Harry also has distribution rights for Greece and Breitling are making money so why change. The Canadian market isn't big enough for a company owned distributor and BUSA isn't a good idea because it adds additional exchange rate issues (which is part of why Zenith is so price uncompetitive in Canada relative to the US).


it would be interesting to hear Roff's response on this :)

Author:  Roffensian [ Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Breitling warranty from repair?

You have a warranty for the service so there is absolutely no issue - just take the watch back to the AD with the warranty paperwork.

My quoted post referred to customer service, but I have never suggested that they never stood behind warranties and have in fact said multiple times that I have no complaints with their servicing.

Author:  breitlingchronospace [ Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Breitling warranty from repair?

Thanks for the information guys

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