Recently, I started looking for a new watch online, and was particularly interested in the Philip Stein Teslar watch.  A few friends of mine – who work in the jewelry biz – told me about them and suggested I check them out. 

Since I’m not much of a traditional shopper, I do most of my product research online, so I had planned on learning how the “frequency technology” in these watches really worked.  Call me a skeptic, but when my friends told me these watches could really make me less stressed out, help me sleep better, and give me an overall sense of well-being – let’s just say I thought they had a few too many beers at happy hour. 

Looking online, I read through the entire Philip Stein web site, googled “frequency technology”, read all about Nikola Tesla (the father of Teslar technology), and once I was sufficiently convinced, began comparing prices on a few ecommerce sites.  That’s when I started to get a little confused.

I expected to pay $500+ for my new Philip Stein watch, and would have been willing to go as high as $1,200 for the perfect version.  A few of the major department stores’ web sites came in at around those prices, but then I found some web sites selling them for under $100.  I couldn’t help but wonder how these sites could sell such a high-end luxury watch at such a low price, so I sent an email to ask a few questions.  Mainly, I wanted to know if they could provide some type of official certification of authenticity for their Philip Stein watches. 

As I had suspected, they couldn’t’ provide anything of the kind, only claiming that as  “reseller” they made “no guarantees”. That’s because they weren’t selling real Philip Stein watches. 

Just a word of advice; if you want a real Philip Stein Teslar watch, buy it from an authorized retailer, and don’t expect it to be less than $500 unless you are buying it used.