DARTMOUTH BRANDS - A SCAM
I ordered two watches on February 15th. My items are now in Spain - my destination country . Customs has held them for proof of payment and origin selling price. Cadola has provided zero documentation and has completely ignored my support emails. Because they won't provide a proper commercial invoice, my watches are stuck.
Despite multiple requests from me and by FedEx, their carrier, Cadola have gone quiet and have kept my money.
Discounted prices and offers are meaningless if customer services do not support Customs assistance with the correct documentation supplied.
WARNING
Be very careful ordering from them in the EU—once they have your money, they stop communicating if there is a shipping problem.
And if you think you are supporting a micro brand think again.You have been bluffed.
Its not just Cadola - they are part of a bigger group called Dartmouth Brands Ltd which is a subsidiary of Solar Time Ltd in Hong Kong.
They position themselves neatly in the "honest micro brand market" but the reality is Cadola is about as non-micro as you can get, sitting as it does as branded goods in a much larger ecosystem that included AVI-8, Spinnaker, Thomas Earnshaw, Duxot, Nubeo, RGMT, Ballast, James McCabe, Dufa, Cortebert, and Fjord.
If you think you are supporting a microbrand with Provenance you are going to be sorely disappointed. They have zero integrity- all you are doing is pouring money into a Chinese production line.
This is fundamentally a cash-cow built on the deception of small brands designed to assume loyalty. The truth is that there is zero customer focus, zero social responsibility or ethics. It comes down to large scale profit filtered through an organisational structure of companies with limited financial exposure outside China. Once they have your money, when the box leaves their shipping department they wash their hands of you and your money and any recourse you thought you had lie in a legal jurisdiction without any accountability.
Take this as a hard warning. These are cheap watches that cost a few dollars to make, falling of a high output chinese production line.
Do your research, find genuine micro brands with heritage who pour love into their products and pride in to the privilege of enjoying your custom.
This lot are a scam.
15. Februar 2026
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