Difficult to imagine any deception or misrepresentation arising out of the situation with these pocket watches. The poster that you created is a work of art, and the use of Photoshop seems entirely appropriate for these purposes.

This seems very different from what we have seen with Antiquorum, where it appears that the only purpose of the Photoshop was to deceive the prospective purchasers about the condition of the watch / generate more money for the seller (and more commissions for the auction house).

Jeff

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: Not wrong really. Since pocket watch collectors don't usually wear
: a lot of their watches there is less of a drive to get them
: running perfectly. The majority of the watches on the poster
: came from two collections. One of the collectors is a relatively
: young guy who seems to have a lot of time and money to collect
: but very little time to get his collection cleaned up. He has
: fantastic stuff but... The other collector, an older guy, is
: almost without a doubt the largest watch collector of American
: watches in the world...better watches than any museum including
: the Smithsonian. He is proud of his Hamilton watches but they
: are a minor interest to him and he has probably had most of them
: sitting around for years. He had a full time watchmaker who
: lived in his house and worked on maintaining and restoring the
: important pieces but he obviously did not get to the lowly
: Hamiltons before he quit and went into business for himself.

: I guess I will just add that there is a diversity of opinion among
: PW collectors. It is certainly a risk every time you take apart
: a watch and clean it. It is also a risk to leave it rotting in
: its old organic oil and grime. Some collectors lean to one risk
: some to the other.

: Probably a bad answer..

: JohnCote