[Rick Lee]

My only experience with high end watches has been with Breitling. But I have heard from several authorized retailers that Breitling will not warranty any watches bought through the Internet. There are plenty of them out there for discount prices and are advertised as real. But every single ad says the retailer provides the warranty, not Breitling. So the watch may well be real, but you'd have to ship it back to wherever for warranty work. And this brings me to my latest dealings with Breitling, where I bought a new and real Hercules from an authorized dealer in Hong Kong (bought it in person). But it stopped working as soon as the store closed and I had to fly home to the US the next day. Had this been from some discount retailer, I'd have had to pay about $70 for shipping and insurance to get it back to Hong Kong. Since I got it from an authorized dealer, Breitling USA is taking care of it for me. And that makes the extra $200-$300 in price well worth it for me.