Terms and Conditions
Important Notice Regarding the Contracting Party
Lago Vintage Watches is a joint business, brand and marketing name as well as a shared digital showcase for two legally independent sole proprietors.
Lago Vintage Watches is not a company, not a civil law partnership under German law (“Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts” / “GbR”) and not a separate legal entity. A purchase contract is not concluded with Lago Vintage Watches, but exclusively with the sole proprietor expressly named in each individual case.
The seller and contracting party of the customer is exclusively the sole proprietor expressly named on the respective product page, in the offer communication, in the order confirmation or on the invoice.
Each seller acts exclusively in his own name, on his own account, with his own bookkeeping and his own invoicing. Joint and several liability of the sole proprietors listed on the website does not exist unless expressly agreed otherwise in an individual case.
Section 1 — Providers
Providers and sellers for the respective marked offers are:
Titus Heyn
Sole proprietor
Weissenseer Weg 83
10369 Berlin
Germany
tituslvw@gmail.com
UST ID: DE461905286
Gregor Peuker
Sole proprietor
Hauptstr. 47a
82343 Pöcking
Germany
gregorlvw@gmail.com
015231857935
UST ID: DE462819106
Section 2 — Scope
(1) These General Terms and Conditions apply to all contracts for the purchase of used luxury watches, accessories, spare parts or other goods that are initiated or concluded via lagovintagewatches.com, by email, by telephone, via messenger services, through classified-ad platforms, through social media or by any other means.
(2) The version of these General Terms and Conditions valid at the time the contract is concluded shall apply.
(3) Individual agreements between the respective seller and the customer shall take precedence over these General Terms and Conditions.
(4) Deviating, conflicting or supplementary general terms and conditions of the customer shall not become part of the contract unless the respective seller expressly agrees to their validity.
Section 3 — Consumers and Entrepreneurs
(1) A consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly outside their trade, business or self-employed professional activity.
(2) An entrepreneur is a natural or legal person, or a partnership with legal capacity, who or which, when entering into a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of their trade, business or self-employed professional activity.
Section 4 — Offers, Product Presentation and Availability
(1) The presentation of watches and other goods on lagovintagewatches.com, on social media, on classified-ad platforms or in other media does not constitute a legally binding offer by the seller, but rather a non-binding invitation for the customer to submit a purchase offer.
(2) All offers are subject to change and non-binding unless expressly designated as binding.
(3) Prior sale, errors, typographical mistakes, price changes and changes in availability are reserved.
(4) Since the watches offered are generally individual items, the customer has no claim to delivery unless the respective seller has expressly accepted the contract.
Section 5 — Conclusion of Contract
(1) The customer may submit an inquiry or purchase offer to the respective named seller.
(2) A purchase contract is concluded only when the respective named seller expressly accepts the customer’s purchase offer. Acceptance may take place in particular by order confirmation, invoice issuance, payment request, shipping confirmation or another clear declaration.
(3) An automatic confirmation of receipt, a response to an inquiry or the provision of further information does not constitute acceptance of a purchase offer unless this is expressly stated.
(4) The seller is entitled to reject a customer’s offer without giving reasons.
(5) If the seller submits an individual offer to the customer, such offer shall only be binding for the period stated therein. If no period is stated, the seller may revoke the offer at any time until it has been accepted by the customer.
Section 6 — Prices, Payment and Invoice
(1) All prices are stated in euros.
(2) The respective stated price is the final price. Shipping costs, insurance costs or other additional costs shall be communicated to the customer before conclusion of the contract if they apply in addition.
(3) Payment shall be made exclusively to the sole proprietor named as the seller.
(4) The permitted payment methods shall be agreed individually with the respective seller. The customer has no claim to a specific payment method.
(5) Shipment or handover of the goods shall generally take place only after full receipt of payment, unless expressly agreed otherwise.
(6) The invoice shall be issued exclusively by the respective named seller.
(7) The tax treatment, in particular any application of margin taxation pursuant to Section 25a of the German VAT Act (“UStG”), shall be determined by the respective invoice issued by the seller. If margin taxation applies, VAT shall not be shown separately.
Section 7 — Condition of Used Watches and Product Information
(1) Unless expressly stated otherwise, the watches offered are used watches.
(2) The relevant condition of the goods is determined by the respective product description, the product photos and any additional information provided by the seller before conclusion of the contract.
(3) Age-related, wearing, storage and usage marks, in particular scratches, polishing, patina, age-related changes to the dial, hands, luminous material, case, bezel, crystal, bracelet, clasp, crown or pushers, shall not constitute defects insofar as they are described in the product description, visible in the photos or to be expected based on the type, age and condition of the watch.
(4) Information regarding year of manufacture, production period, reference, movement, case, dial, hands, bracelet, clasp, box, papers, service history or originality of individual components is provided to the best of the respective seller’s knowledge and based on the available information.
(5) A specific characteristic shall only be deemed guaranteed if it is expressly and clearly designated as a guaranteed characteristic.
(6) The product photos form part of the description. Deviations in colour, light reflections and differences in display due to screen or camera settings may occur.
Section 8 — Authenticity, Functional Check and Warranty
(1) The respective seller assures, to the best of his knowledge and on the basis of the inspection carried out, that the watch offered is authentic.
(2) This assurance of authenticity does not relate to the complete originality of all individual components, service histories, replacement or spare parts, polishing, subsequent modifications or the completeness of accessories, unless these characteristics have been expressly assured in the product description.
(3) The watch shall be checked for basic running function before handover or shipment, unless expressly stated otherwise.
(4) A specific accuracy, power reserve, water resistance or need for servicing shall only be owed if expressly assured in the product description.
(5) No voluntary dealer warranty is granted unless expressly agreed in an individual case. Statutory defect rights remain unaffected.
Section 9 — Water Resistance
(1) For used watches, and in particular for vintage and neo-vintage watches, no water resistance is assured unless expressly stated otherwise in the product description with reference to a current test certificate.
(2) Even water resistance originally stated by the manufacturer may no longer exist due to age, use, seals, service condition, case condition or other circumstances.
(3) The customer is responsible for having the water resistance professionally checked before the watch comes into contact with water.
Section 10 — Delivery, Shipping and Transfer of Risk
(1) Delivery and shipping shall be agreed individually with the respective seller.
(2) Shipping shall generally be insured and carried out, at the seller’s discretion, using a suitable shipping provider or valuables transport provider.
(3) Delivery periods are only binding if expressly confirmed by the respective seller.
(4) If the customer is a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods in the case of shipment passes to the customer only upon handover of the goods to the customer or to a person authorised by the customer to receive them.
(5) If the customer is an entrepreneur, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods passes to the customer upon handover to the carrier.
(6) The customer is requested to inspect the goods promptly upon receipt for obvious transport damage and to notify the seller and the shipping provider of any damage as soon as possible. The customer’s statutory rights, in particular those of consumers, shall not be restricted by this request.
Section 11 — Collection
(1) Personal collection is only possible by individual agreement.
(2) In the case of personal handover, the seller may require the customer to prove their identity in an appropriate manner.
(3) In the case of collection, the risk passes to the customer upon handover of the goods.
Section 12 — Retention of Title
(1) The goods remain the property of the respective seller until the purchase price has been paid in full.
(2) In relation to entrepreneurs, the seller retains title to the goods until all claims arising from the ongoing business relationship have been fully settled.
Section 13 — Right of Withdrawal for Consumers
(1) Consumers generally have a statutory right of withdrawal in the case of distance contracts.
(2) Details are set out in the separate withdrawal policy of the respective responsible seller.
(3) Entrepreneurs do not have a statutory right of withdrawal.
Section 14 — Return Shipment in the Event of Withdrawal
(1) In the event of withdrawal, the buyer shall bear the direct costs of return shipment insofar as this is legally permissible.
(2) The buyer is requested to contact the respective seller before returning the goods so that a suitable and sufficiently insured shipping method can be coordinated. The buyer’s statutory rights shall not be restricted by this request.
(3) The buyer must return the goods in the condition in which they received them. The buyer must compensate for any loss in value of the goods if such loss in value is due to handling of the goods that was not necessary for checking their condition, characteristics and functionality.
Section 15 — Statutory Defect Liability
(1) Statutory defect liability rights apply unless otherwise provided below.
(2) For used goods, the limitation period for defect claims is one year from handover of the goods, insofar as this can be legally agreed.
(3) The reduction of the limitation period does not apply to claims arising from injury to life, body or health, to claims arising from intentional or grossly negligent breaches of duty, in the case of fraudulent concealment of a defect, in the case of an assumed guarantee or insofar as mandatory statutory longer periods apply.
(4) In relation to entrepreneurs, the limitation period for defect claims for used goods is one year from handover, insofar as legally permissible.
(5) In particular, age-related and usage-related conditions that are to be expected based on the type, age, condition and description of the watch, as well as deviations that were known to the customer or identifiable from the product description and product photos, shall not constitute defects.
Section 16 — Procedure in the Event of Alleged Defects
(1) The customer shall inform the seller of an alleged defect as promptly as possible and coordinate further inspection with the seller.
(2) The customer should not carry out or arrange for any independent repairs, opening of the case, interventions in the movement or other modifications to the watch before the seller has had an opportunity to inspect it. The customer’s statutory rights shall not be restricted by this.
(3) If interventions are carried out by third parties without prior coordination, this may make inspection more difficult. In such a case, the customer’s claims shall only exist insofar as the alleged defect already existed at the time of transfer of risk and was not caused or worsened by the intervention.
Section 17 — Liability
(1) The seller shall be liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body or health, for intent and gross negligence, in the case of fraudulent concealment of a defect, in the case of an assumed guarantee and pursuant to mandatory statutory provisions.
(2) In the event of a slightly negligent breach of material contractual obligations, the seller shall only be liable for the typical, foreseeable damage. Material contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfilment is essential for the proper performance of the contract and on whose compliance the customer may regularly rely.
(3) Otherwise, liability for slightly negligent breaches of duty is excluded insofar as legally permissible.
(4) The above limitations of liability also apply in favour of the seller’s legal representatives and vicarious agents.
Section 18 — Set-Off and Right of Retention
(1) The customer may only set off claims if their counterclaims have been legally established, are undisputed or have been acknowledged by the seller.
(2) Consumers are also entitled to set off claims that are reciprocal to the seller’s claim.
(3) The customer may only exercise a right of retention insofar as their counterclaim is based on the same contractual relationship.
Section 19 — Identity Verification, Compliance and Prevention of Abuse
(1) The seller is entitled to request appropriate identity verification from the customer before conclusion of the contract, before handover or before shipment, insofar as this appears necessary due to the value of the goods, the payment method, legal obligations, fraud prevention, prevention of dealing in stolen goods or other legitimate interests.
(2) The seller is entitled to reject the conclusion of a contract or suspend the performance of a contract if the customer does not provide required information or evidence, or if there are factual indications of abuse, fraud, dealing in stolen goods, money laundering or other unlawful purposes.
(3) Statutory reporting, inspection and retention obligations remain unaffected.
Section 20 — Communication
(1) Legally relevant declarations may, insofar as legally permissible, be made in text form, in particular by email or via the communication channel through which the contract was initiated.
(2) The customer is responsible for providing accurate and reachable contact details.
Section 21 — Applicable Law
(1) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
(2) In relation to consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive the consumer of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the consumer has their habitual residence.
Section 22 — Place of Jurisdiction
(1) If the customer is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from contractual relationships with the respective seller shall be the seller’s place of business.
(2) In relation to consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction apply.
Section 23 — Consumer Dispute Resolution
(1) The respective seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board, unless expressly stated otherwise in an individual case.
(2) Statutory information obligations after a specific dispute has arisen remain unaffected.
Section 24 — Final Provisions
(1) If individual provisions of these General Terms and Conditions are or become invalid in whole or in part, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. The statutory provisions shall apply.
(2) Amendments and supplements to individual agreements require text form unless a stricter form is required by law.
(3) The German version of these General Terms and Conditions shall prevail. Any translations are provided for information purposes only.
As of: 28/06/2026