Originally Posted by
markrlondon
Yes, I am pedantic...
It would be VAT, not Duty; they are different things. Customs Duty is not general payable on single watch imports in practice but VAT is payable.
As an aside, why were people upset about having watches shipped from the far east? In my experience, anything coming from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, or Indonesia always comes through without being charged VAT. This largely seems to be due to the populations of those countries seemingly being committed to writing largely fictional prose on C11 forms.