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Man Sues Over $50,000 Patek Philippe Watch Bought on eBay

In 2008 a man in Germany was overjoyed when he purchased what he thought was an ultra rare Patek Philippe watch from an eBay seller in Canada.

After studying watches for more than 3 decades, reading and owning many books on the subject and also having a private collection of over 20 Patek Philippe Swiss watches, German Doctor Oliver Hartmann paid 50,000 for what he believed to be a rare Patek Philippe 1950′s 18ct gold watch of which there had only been 6 known records of during the last 15 years.

Dr. Hartmann thought that as the other known cases of the same watch had all been made in yellow gold, and that this model was in pink gold that the watch could be an ultra rare piece and probably a prototype and after contacting the son of the owner his offer of 50,000 was accepted.

Upon receiving the watch however Dr. Hartmann contacted the seller saying that the watch was in fact a fake and claimed that he had been misled, however the seller, Wendy McKerness of West Vancouver disputed the claim which eventually led to Dr. Hartmann suing over breach of contract.

On the 11th of July in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Justice Robert Johnston told the jury that the eBay listing said the watch had been made for Patek Philippe and not by Patek Philippe and also the Judge found that Dr. Hartmann also had not recieved any official evidence from Patek Philippe that the watch was a fake because he had not taken the watch to them to be officially examined.

After reviewing all the evidence it was decided that Dr. Hartmann had failed to make his case, hense the case was dismissed with costs to the defendants, concluding that the watch ‘sufficiently corresponded to the description the defendants gave it’ and that ‘The law does not protect people from improvident bargains’

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