SeRpEnT
Executive Member
A quick Google search later:
Comment on Reddit:
I did some digging and doing some reverse image searches and gov.uk lookups, which showed a company that is only 4 years old registered in the UK. The image of their "swiss office" is a doctored photo of a legitimate Swiss watch factory/office (Via Penate 16, 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland). That same factory also seems to produce the exact same watches for "Roamer", "Jacques Du Manoir", and "Balco", amongst other companies. Those companies list the same watches at around £200-300, not the £1500-3000 Christophe Duchamp wants you to pay. The "Discount" Christophe Duchamp provides just brings the watches down to their real market value. The exorbitantly higher price tag is most likely just to create a false sense of luxury to draw people in to use the discount, and also a way of scamming the few people who come across their website organically through Google and don't realise it's not actually a proper luxury watch company.
In other words it is technically a legit company, but it's just a seller of wholesale generic watches which aren't anything special or worth much. It's a much better idea to just get something better and higher quality from a more reputable brand that isn't trying to fabricate or hide their history/image.
Comment on Reddit:
I did some digging and doing some reverse image searches and gov.uk lookups, which showed a company that is only 4 years old registered in the UK. The image of their "swiss office" is a doctored photo of a legitimate Swiss watch factory/office (Via Penate 16, 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland). That same factory also seems to produce the exact same watches for "Roamer", "Jacques Du Manoir", and "Balco", amongst other companies. Those companies list the same watches at around £200-300, not the £1500-3000 Christophe Duchamp wants you to pay. The "Discount" Christophe Duchamp provides just brings the watches down to their real market value. The exorbitantly higher price tag is most likely just to create a false sense of luxury to draw people in to use the discount, and also a way of scamming the few people who come across their website organically through Google and don't realise it's not actually a proper luxury watch company.
In other words it is technically a legit company, but it's just a seller of wholesale generic watches which aren't anything special or worth much. It's a much better idea to just get something better and higher quality from a more reputable brand that isn't trying to fabricate or hide their history/image.
