Quite, still no reply from Antiquorum I see.
Looks like shoving their head in the sand is going to be all the reaction they give.
None of the larger blogs have taken up my challenge and had anything to say on this as yet I gather? I guess they really are a protected species and that my friend is both sad and very, very wrong. It looks to me like there is no free press in the watch trade, blogs and the like are too concerned about having their supply of review watches cut off to offer any serious criticism of the big players. that should be a concern to anyone who spends big (whatever that may mean to them) money on watches as things that should be reported on are not in fact seeing the light of day for fear of offending the big players in the game.

It is only through independent sources such as this forum that such information is supplied. That's fine for the likes of us but where does it leave the many good folk who are not members of such a forum? The only thing that leaves a worse taste in my mouth than what happened here is the fact it's being comprehensively swept under the carpet by the big players in the watch industry media.

: 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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