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I remember years ago, being given a Rolex from a friend. I new less about movements than I know now (which is really saying something) but when I took it in to be repaired, and the guy took the back off, even I had to smile, instead of being greeted with a complex miniature machine, there was this crude white plastic box with a battery in the middle . Can't remember what happened to the watch but I know it didn't get worn. Even then at an early age, it just didn't feel right wearing a lie.

It seems to me that you are treading a fine line in destroying somebody's fake. My wife once took her genuine Omega Speedmaster to an Omega AD and was told it was a fake. Of course, it wasn't a fake...the repair person was just an arrogant moron. If they had destroyed it "for her convenience" I would have been really pissed. (If I had been there, I would have thrown a fit and told them that I bought the watch there 10 years ago, and now they just admitted they sold me a fake....just to see what they did, then ).

I don't think BUSA would make that kind of mistake, but where do you draw the line? Just because somebody says they're an expert doesn't mean that they necessarily are. Once they destroy it, they cannot prove that is was really a fake. If somebody sues them to get their "genuine" watch back, how could they defend themselves?

///M

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They didn't destroy it, they disassembled it.

If it went to court it would be very easy for them to have the fake parts compared with real parts and have experts confirm the differences.