BUYER BEWARE: SERVICE GUARANTEE IS A SHAM! I purch...
BUYER BEWARE: SERVICE GUARANTEE IS A SHAM! I purchased a Baume & Mercier watch here in 2011 that included a lifetime of service guarantee (battery change and tune up), which was a key reason for purchasing here. Watch worked perfectly until about 2016, when I took it to the store, and they delivered on their promise. It was serviced and battery was changed at no charge, no questions, and watch was in their records.
Well, my watch needed another battery change this year so I went back, and to my surprise, they had no record of my watch ever having been purchased there. The clerk looked through his records for some minutes and came back to dismiss the watch as not being from the store. I called his manager, explained I remembered the date of purchase AND the first tune up, which would have been registered in their service logs somewhere. He too, came back saying it was not purchased there. Lucky for them, American Express, the card I used to purchase the watch, does not keep records of individual purchases past 10 years... (FYI) which I strongly suspect they knew that policy as they encouraged me to find proof of purchase with that transaction.
The manager even admitted they migrated their CRM a couple of years earlier, and had the audacity to say that no records could have been lost. He offered to tune up my watch complimentary for this final time. I encouraged them to look at their video footage and search the transactions from their end - they declined. They stuck to their message and continued to lie!
Wasted an hour of my time debating this and a lot of money buying from them. I d suggest you avoid, there are plenty of nice watch stores a block away!