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Here's a link to a page showing the Royal Mail's exemptions from compensation for loss, which includes watches.

http://www.parcelforce.com/portal/pw/content1?catId=25900691&mediaId=26000667

It applies to all Royal Mail services, as far as I can make out (but it is not the very specific detailed exclusion I discovered recently). I'll keep searching!

Derek

: I don't want to rain on your parade, but this
: subject is one that is interesting me
: because I have to send a watch to the US
: from GB.

: It appears to me at present that any watch sent
: by any of the Royal Mail services is
: exempted from compensation if it gets lost.
: At the moment, I can't point to the exact
: paragraph in the Royal Mail's Terms and
: Conditions that provides this exemption, but
: I came across it the other day. I'll try to
: find it and add to this message shortly.
: Meantime I have emailed the Royal Mail for
: an answer on the point in so far as it
: relates to "International Signed
: For" mail.

: The other dampener is as regards the prices
: quoted by Omega.ch for servicing watches. As
: I understand, them they are the minimum
: prices for straightforward servicing.
: Corroded movements may well push the price
: up. That is what STS do and it's not
: unreasonable. I imagine Omega.ch will be the
: same. Perhaps, just to depress you
: completely, Lorenzo (!), I should add that
: Omega.ch sent back my 1954 cal 352 Seamaster
: saying that they couldn't service it because
: they no longer had some of the necessary
: parts.

: Derek Duncan