When you are at an AD, do you get annoyed when...

[hansomegq67]

The only thing that annoys me is if I buy a strap and sales person wants to measure my watch lugs even I perfectly know I need 20mm strap

They do it too at the shoe stores with commissioned sales people. I'm 42 yrs. old. I've taken a size 10 shoe for the better portion of my life. I don't need to be sat down and measured. Do you have my size or not?


That said, I completely agree with the OP. If they ask, I'll always say "yes".
If they don't ask. That's not too cool IMO. Especially leaving a finger print or smudge on my crystal. I don't know how many times I'd have to ask for a cloth to polish my own crystal afterwards. The un-asked for, no-brainer advise givers are my least favorite. After playing with the pushers on my chronograph "Make sure you run the sub dial for seconds, using the big seconds hand drains the battery faster ."- "It was doing that before you started playing with it.""Could I have a watch crystal cloth please?"

[DMB]

The issue would be that the watch on MY wrist is MY watch that I bought with MY money.

"Mine! .. Mine! .. Mine!" , hahahaha.

[WatchBuff0]

The only thing that annoys me is if I buy a strap and sales person wants to measure my watch lugs even I perfectly know I need 20mm strap

I'm with the sales person on this one - a few minutes measuring the lugs - even if the customer is very sure will save many returns.

Most customer won't know the size - then there will be a percentage that quote a size but are wrong - then what I estimate to be the smallest group - those that know and are right!

[John MS]

you set your own watch down to try on the one you are checking out and then the salesperson picks up your watch and checks your watch out? Without even asking me to touch my watch!?! Am I only the only who gets peeved by this? I am there to check out their watches, not for them to check out my watch (I especially hate when they touch my crystal!).

Doesn't bother me at all but it would depend on what the salesman said after looking the watch over. I've gotten a kind comment or two over the years on watches that were not exactly high end. Indeed I wore an Orient Automatic power reserve into a higher-end jewlery store and the salesman said he knew the brand, recognized and like the watch. It wasn't even a Star model! If I detected any condescension in a salesman's voice I would simply move on. There are enough other hungry watch sellers out there.

[Ozy]

I handed my 4 month old son overthe counter @ the AD on the weekend, it kept them busy while I set my Tag Heuer 500m Aquaracer on the counter and tried on an Omega PO & SMP....

You could try that?

[poboxw]

I'm not too bothered so as long as the sales in one way or another indicates that he/she's interested in looking my watch over. A "may I" or wave of a hand at least. It's an etiquette issue and sales, or anybody for that matter, should know better

[jason_recliner]

Wow, we have a pretty uptight group here in this thread. What's the big deal? It's a watch. You are in a watch store. You are talking about watches, with a watch salesman, and are looking at his store's watches. Why would it be so unbelievable that he might want to look at your watch? Especially if you have it laying out on the counter. If I was selling watches and had the "bug", I'd want to look as well. I would probably gesture to his watch and ask if he minded, but that's just me. I've had them look at mine before and it didn't bother me at all. He actually handled mine more delicately than I do.

+1

no worries here, to the point i find it to be a bit of a compliment. it's not like they are kissing my wife...

This could also be construed as a compliment!

[crazyfingers]

Never happened to me yet, but I don't think I'll mind. Maybe he is a WIS too and its always nice to meet another WIS.

[gentlemanofleisure]

And if they had common curtsy they would ask before touching.

[BenL]

Yes, it does bug me a bit. Even more so if they don't ask first.

Now, I just put away my watch before trying something on.