Sky Diamonds - Scammer, Liar, Deceptive Business Practices!!! Beware!!

[shaunaic]

I purchased a 33mm Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Frosted White Gold watch and I also purchased a 33mm Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Rose Gold, White Dial, with Diamonds from Sky Diamonds (skydiamondco.com). Both watches were around $68,000.

I was told that both of these watches were brand new, however the frosted white gold watch arrived not functioning at all, and unable to tell time. Gabriel apologized for not checking it before sending it to me.

I requested a video or picture of the rose gold watch before buying it, as I wanted to see the exact item that I was buying. I was told this watch had just came in that day and was brand new. I was sent a video of a watch that appeared to be perfect. I discovered yesterday that this video was taken on December 30, 2020. So it was not even the same watch that was sent to me.

The rose gold watch arrived with the case misaligned. At this point, I was wondering what else was wrong with the watch. I took it to my local watchmaker, who opened up the watch, and was appalled to find severe corrosion and rust inside the watch. He also stated that he could clearly tell the watch had been polished before.

As I stated before, I purchased this watch under the pretense that it was brand new, as I was told, meaning it should've not had any rust, corrosion, water damage, nor had been polished before.

I brought this up with Gabriel, and received total silence. I showed him pictures of the rust and corrosion inside the watch. No apology, no offer of a refund, no response.

The fact that both of these watches either failed to be inspected or checked before being sent to me, despite Gabriel stating that rose gold watch was inspected by a watchmaker and that was the reason for the misalignment, or that they were checked and sent to me in this condition regardless, and that my request for the rose gold watch to have three links removed was not even done (the watch was not sized as I requested), shows a total lack of care, incompetence, fraud, and again, deceptive business practices. Gabriel even tried to say that Audemars Piguet watches are handmade and it's normal, it happens every 1 out of 100 watches that there is a misalignment. What total bs. He must think I am an idiot.

Why are they sending used, damaged watches to customers and telling them that they are brand new?

I would've been a loyal long-term customer, but instead Gabriel and Sky Diamonds decided it would be better, or easier, to lie and scam me out of $137,000 which I sent via wire, due to this company's reputation and good reviews on chrono24, ebay, and google. I am a woman, and I believe that Gabriel thought that I knew nothing about watches and that it would be easy take advantage of me and to scam me.

I have requested for the repair fee of $1300 to be reimbursed to me, a partial refund, or a full refund, but unfortunately, I am being completed ignored and ghosted. At this point, I don't even want these watches as the whole experience has left a bad taste in my mouth, and I just want to return them and get my money back.

I am posting this so hopefully anyone that is considering doing business with this company will read my story and not get scammed like I did.