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They remember that you have visited a platform and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising and promotion. These cookies, including those from third parties, are aimed at creating profiles related to you and are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests in line with your preferences expressed while surfing the web. We use this information to help run our Platform more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Platform. It includes the number of visitors to our Platform, the platforms that referred them to our Platform and the pages that they visited on our Platform. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor and is aggregated. These cookies, including those from third parties, are used to collect information about how visitors use our Platform. For example, some of these cookies enable visitors to specify language, product or other platform preferences. Their overall purpose, however, is to enhance visitorsвЂ™ experience and enjoyment of this Platform. These cookies serve a variety of purposes related to the presentation, performance and functionality of this Platform. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible. These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through this Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. They will check watches that come for service against their stolen watch database.Our Platform uses various types of cookies, each of which has a specific function. The following maintain an internal database of timepieces, but do not make available to search, nor do they support collectors who wish to know if a watch has been registered as stolen in their database. MB&F, email Constantin (to register a watch as stolen, Vacheron requires a copy of the police report, date and location of theft, and reference numbers of the timepiece: case and movement serial numbers) The below companies do not charge a fee to search for a particular watch at a customerвЂ™s request. Collectors can, however, reach out to the company and the company will search to see if they have the watch recorded as stolen. The following do maintain stolen watch databases, but do not make them available for the public to directly search. The following have provided a listing of their stolen timepieces upon request: The following manufactures maintain a public listing of stolen watches: In addition to the below, always refer to the Alpha Hands stolen watch registry or other stolen watch registry to search prior to purchase, even in addition to contacting the manufacturer directly, if applicable per the below. If the watch is registered as stolen, it is held for the authorities. If the watch is not registered as stolen, the watch will of course be returned (and you will then have paperwork showing you as the owner, at least in RolexвЂ™s eyes). Rolex has since stopped this practice, and now will only check if a watch is stolen when it is brought to Rolex to be serviced.

My understanding is that years ago Rolex provided a service where collectors could contact the company to confirm whether a watch was registered as stolen in their internal database prior to purchase (to be registered as stolen requires a police report). Note that those wishing to register a watch as stolen with a manufacturer will need to submit a police report. I have received this information directly from each manufacturer. Details on various manufacturers and their policies are included below. Many do, however, maintain lists for internal use, and of those, some will look up whether a timepiece is stolen at the request of a collector, and others will only check against their database when the watch is in for service. It is rare that a manufacturer makes a list of stolen pieces publicly available.

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