Hello all, new member here, with a question for the group:
Background: I recently acquired a BNIB Aerospace Evo Night Mission from an eBay seller. The transaction went great -- watch arrived new and perfect and still wrapped in its factory plastic stickers, and I saved a bundle versus buying retail at an AD. The watch came with its electronic warranty card, which was activated in Sept 2016, before I purchased it. The eBay seller (a very nice gentleman, we spoke by phone and hit it off well) has a cousin who works for a Breitling AD in Israel; this is his source for his watches, and that dealer is the AD named on the electronic digital warranty card.
Objective: I'd like to have the watch and its warranty officially registered to my name.
My question: In this age of the electronic digital warranty card, we are past the days of mailing in a post card to register one’s watch. So -- how have others in the USA handled this? I certainly can’t be the first one here to have bought a brand new watch, with an already activated electronic warranty card, from a gray market reseller. Shall I call Breitling USA and just ask them to register the watch to me? Or, once a warranty card is activated by an AD, it cannot be changed to a new owner? Or even worse, would BUSA negate my warranty altogether if I told them I bought it through a gray reseller?
Advice on protocols and what I should expect, and what I should do or not do, will be very much appreciated.
Oh -- and -- pics or it didn’t happen, right??
Cheers
Dave
