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Payment

Nothing is due while we are talking. When you decide, a bill of sale comes first and the money follows it — never the other way round.

The bill of sale

A written Kaufvertrag naming the watch, its reference and serial, the price, the shipping to your country and the total. It is the document that makes the sale a sale, and once you have paid against it we have a contract — until then either of us can walk away without a reason.

Prices are in euro and no VAT is added or shown: this is a private sale of used goods on which it was paid decades ago. That also means there is no VAT for a business to reclaim, which is worth knowing before you ask.

How you can pay

Bank transferSEPA transfer within the EU, to the account on the bill of sale. It costs neither of us anything and it is what most people use.
PayPalGoods and services, so its buyer protection actually applies to you. The fee is mine, not added to your total — if you want that protection you should not have to pay for it.
In personIf you are collecting in Berlin, pay when you have the watch in your hand and are satisfied with it.

Order of events

You ask, I confirm it is still free and hold it for twenty-four hours after that reply. Inspection, if you want one, happens before payment — come and try it on, or have it sent to a watchmaker of your choosing. Then the bill of sale, then payment, then it ships within a week and you get the tracking number the day it goes.

Each watch is a single piece. If two people ask at once, the first to pay has it and I tell the other the same day rather than leave them waiting.

What I will not ask forA deposit to hold something, a friends-and-family PayPal transfer, or payment before you have the bill of sale in writing. If a message that appears to come from me asks for any of those, it is not from me — write to the address in the Impressum and check.