General Terms and Conditions

1. scope of application

The following terms and conditions apply to all orders placed via our online store. Our online store is aimed exclusively at consumers.

A consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly outside their trade, business or profession. An entrepreneur is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, is acting in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity.

2 Contractual partner, conclusion of contract, correction options

The purchase contract is concluded with Duci Watches e.K.

By placing the products in the online store, we submit a binding offer to conclude a contract for these products. You can initially place our products in the shopping cart without obligation and correct your entries at any time before sending your binding order by using the correction aids provided and explained for this purpose in the order process. The contract is concluded when you accept the offer for the products contained in the shopping cart by clicking the order button. Immediately after sending the order, you will receive another confirmation by e-mail.

3. contract language, contract text storage

The language(s) available for the conclusion of the contract: German, English

We save the text of the contract and send you the order data and our GTC in text form. For security reasons, the text of the contract is no longer accessible via the Internet.

4. subject matter of the contract

4.1 Product description

Reference is made to the validity of the respective product description as an integral part of the contract.

4.2 Product images

Without prejudice to your statutory warranty rights, we would like to draw your attention to the following special features. If you are unsure, please contact us:

Due to individual screen configurations (e.g. resolution and brightness), slight deviations between the displayed and the actual product colors are possible.

5. requirements and handling of customer content

5.1 Requirements

If it is necessary for you to transmit content (e.g. texts, data, files) to us in order to fulfill the order, the technical options available for this and any applicable requirements are based on the respective product description.

You are solely responsible for the content, including the legality and accuracy of the content you submit. We do not carry out an editorial review of the content before executing the order.

5.2 Compliance with applicable law

The content and the products to be created from it must always comply with the applicable legal provisions. In particular, they must not infringe any rights or claims of third parties (especially copyrights, trademark rights or other intellectual property rights) and must not contain or serve any purposes that glorify violence, are discriminatory, racist, xenophobic or otherwise immoral or unconstitutional.

5.3 Exemption

You shall indemnify us against claims by third parties which they may assert in connection with an infringement of their rights by our contractual use. You shall also assume the necessary costs of legal defense, including all court and attorney's fees in the statutory amount. The indemnification does not apply if you are not responsible for the infringement. In the event of a claim by a third party, you are obliged to provide us immediately, truthfully and completely with all information necessary for the examination of the claims and a defense.

5.4 Reservation of right of withdrawal

We reserve the right to refuse the order or to withdraw from the contract if the content you provide for this purpose violates legal or official prohibitions or morality or if there is a reasonable suspicion of this. This applies in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, offensive, youth-endangering and/or violence-glorifying content.

6. terms of delivery

6.1 Delivery area

We deliver within Germany.

6.2 Shipping costs

In addition to the indicated product prices, shipping costs are added for standard shipping. You can find out more about the shipping costs in the offers.

There is a surcharge of 19 euros or more for express shipping. You can find out more about express shipping in the offers.

6.3 Delivery options

We ship the products to the delivery address specified in the order process.

You have the possibility to pick up your order at Duci Watches, Robert-Heuser-Straße 15, 50968 Köln, Germany during the following business hours: 10 am - 6 pm

We do not deliver to packing stations.

7. payment

7.1 Prices

The prices stated at the time of ordering apply. These are total prices and include VAT if the product is subject to VAT.

7.2 Due date and default of payment

The price is due upon conclusion of the contract, unless a later date is specified in the following terms of payment.

The following applies to consumers: In the event of late payment, we reserve the right to charge you a fee of EUR 1.50 per reminder for the second and each subsequent reminder. You reserve the right to prove that the damage incurred is lower. Further claims remain unaffected by this.

The following applies to entrepreneurs: In the event of late payment, we reserve the right to charge you statutory default interest at a rate of nine percentage points above the base interest rate and a lump sum of EUR 40. Further claims remain unaffected by this.

7.3 Payment methods

The following payment methods are available in our store.

Prepayment
If you select prepayment as your payment method, we will send you our bank details in a separate e-mail and deliver the goods after receipt of payment.

Cash payment on collection
You pay the invoice amount in cash on collection.

Credit card
Enter your credit card details during the ordering process. Your card will be charged immediately after placing the order.

Apple Pay
To be able to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Apple Inc, One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014, USA ("Apple"), you must use the "Safari" browser, be registered with Apple, have activated the Apple Pay function, legitimize yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction is carried out immediately after placing the order. You will receive further instructions during the ordering process.

Google Pay
In order to be able to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"), you must be registered with Google, have activated the Google Pay function, legitimize yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction is carried out immediately after placing the order. You will receive further instructions during the ordering process.

Klarna
In cooperation with the payment service provider Klarna Bank AB (publ.), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden ("Klarna") we offer you the following payment options. Payment via Klarna is only available to consumers. Unless otherwise specified below, payment via Klarna requires a successful address and credit check and is made directly to Klarna. Further information can be found in the respective payment option and in the order process.

Klarna credit card
You enter your credit card details during the ordering process. Your card will be charged by Klarna immediately after placing the order. There is no address or credit check.

Klarna direct debit
You issue Klarna with a SEPA direct debit mandate. Klarna will inform you about the date of the account debit (so-called prenotification). The account will be debited after the goods have been dispatched.

PayPal, PayPal Express
In order to be able to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg ("PayPal"), you must be registered with PayPal, legitimize yourself with your access data and confirm the payment order. The payment transaction is carried out by PayPal immediately after the order is placed. You will receive further instructions during the ordering process.

PayPal can offer registered PayPal customers, selected according to its own criteria, further payment methods in the customer account. However, we have no influence on the offering of these modalities; other individually offered payment modalities affect your legal relationship with PayPal. You can find further information on this in your PayPal account.

8. reservation of title

The product remains our property until full payment has been made.

9. transportation damage

If goods are delivered with obvious transport damage, please complain about such defects to the deliverer as soon as possible and contact us immediately. Failure to make a complaint or contact us has no consequences for your legal claims and their enforcement, in particular your warranty rights. However, you will help us to assert our own claims against the carrier or the transport insurance company.

10 Warranty and guarantees

10.1 Liability for defects

Unless expressly agreed otherwise, the statutory liability for defects shall apply.

Information for consumers

We would like to inform you that when selling used goods to consumers, we may shorten the limitation period with regard to warranty rights for defects to one year from delivery of the goods, provided that we inform you of this specifically and this is expressly and separately agreed.

    If and insofar as restrictions and/or shortening of time limits are expressly and separately agreed, these shall not apply to claims based on damage caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

    • in the event of injury to life, limb or health
    • in the event of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty and fraudulent intent
    • in the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which is essential for the proper execution of the contract and on the observance of which the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations)
    • within the framework of a guarantee promise, if agreed, or
    • insofar as the scope of application of the Product Liability Act is opened.

    10.2 Warranties and customer service

    Information on any additional guarantees that may apply and their exact conditions can be found with the product and on special information pages in the online store.

    11. liability

    We are always liable without limitation for claims based on damage caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

    • in the event of injury to life, limb or health,
    • in the event of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty,
    • for guarantee promises, if agreed, or
    • insofar as the scope of application of the Product Liability Act is opened.

    In the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which is essential for the proper execution of the contract and on the observance of which the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations) due to slight negligence on our part, our legal representatives or vicarious agents, liability shall be limited to the amount of damage foreseeable at the time of conclusion of the contract, the occurrence of which must typically be expected.
    Otherwise, claims for damages are excluded.

    12. code of conduct

    We have subjected ourselves to the following codes of conduct:

    13. dispute resolution

    The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS), which you can find here.

    Important note: The Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform will be finally discontinued on 20.7.2025. The submission of complaints on the ODR platform will therefore be discontinued on March 20, 2025. We are not obliged or willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

    Should individual clauses of these GTC be invalid in whole or in part, the remainder of the contract shall remain valid. If individual clauses are invalid, the content of the contract shall be governed by the statutory provisions.