Certificate of Authenticity : Update on situation as regards Extracts

Great job, well done Mark.
Thank you for your efforts for us collectors.

Best regards

Word!

I think this is a very good step.
It will we quite time-consuming to give a COA on old watches.

Is the fee fixed for any watch, or when I send a Jones watch what will be the answer ?

Maybe there are watches where it is not possible to hand out a COA.
I am even astonished as there is a COA on the Elgin I without a serial number of the movement.

But anyway, many thanks for this great Service

Ralph

We are indebted to you, Mark, for these efforts, and thank IWC for listening to us. It does feel nice to realize IWC recognized the importance of this for any of us collecting our favorites, especially vintage.

Nelson

In cases where the IWC records are missing, IWC was unable of issuing the Extract from the Ledger, because the Ledger no longer exists. In the case of the Mark 11, for which apparently no records exist, IWC found a way around the problem and issued a Certificate of Genuineness, which is synonym with Authenticity.
If this new document is called a Certificate of Authenticity, IWC should IMHO be able of issuing it, after examining the watch and confirming its authenticity, even tough a record of the watch may no longer exist in IWC archives.
Just a thought.

Just a silly question:

Why the serial number of the movement was not listed in the COE?

I think the movement has one and we have seen this movement here in the forum...(It has to be one of the early Elgin I's , quite rare that time the steel cases!)

regards

Ralph

Thank you, Mark! This is a great service to the whole IWC community!

Mark - excellent result. I'm sure that this will be a big win for many in the community. Kudos!

You are the MAN Mark - and IWC is the WATCH COMPANY - cudos to both!

Thanks Antonio

I understand you have a diver down and need a tug!

Failing that I greatly appreciate your Big Zanks (Bravo Zulu), but seriously fellows please don't be thanking me, as to me if anything it's a labour of love.

We all do however need to thank IWC customer Service department, and it's management (supported of course by David Seyffer of the Museum and our own Oliver Siegel of Community Management) for the fantastic co-operative spirit and willingness to not only listen but take aboard the internal challenges on our behalf. Management at IWC as an international operating company within a large holding company such as Richmond Group are no doubt faced with many tough internal processes all requiring various levels of approval - be it legal, finance, etc. and Andreas Voll, David and Oliver all have risen to the challenge, and have resolved to fix the issue for us.