I NO LONGER UNDERTAKE COMPASS REPAIRS OR SERVICING

 

I am based in Italy and have to source components from the UK.  Since Brexit Italy is now making me pay obscene import tax on those components.  Italy is then charging me obscene import tax to receive the compasses for repair.

 

Europe has recently decreed that Tritium lamps for watches and compasses now fall under regulation UN2911 - radioactive material excepted package - instruments or articles.  This means that to send modern watches, compasses or parts thereof, the items have to be subjected to stringent shipping regulations, which has increased the cost exponentially.  Think about it, wristwatches are now “dangerous items” according to the idiots in Brussels.  These charges would have to be passed on to the customer, which would make the overall costs untenable.