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[collection] friend left his collection with me and passed away. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by No_Rent_6845@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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He’s also my business partner. He kept his watch collection with me since his wife doesn’t allow him to buy watches and made me promise not to ever tell his wife about them. Not only because she doesn’t like it but also because she will definitely ask him to sell them and probably spend the money on clothes and traveling like she often does.

He lets me use the watches in the condition that I don’t cause any damage. But now that he passed away it doesn’t feel right any more.

His watch collection is worth about 200K$ in todays market. I think the lawful and ethical thing to do is to break the promise and tell his wife but I’m not sure that’s the right thing to do since he made me promise not to tell her.

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[–] tms10000@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Step 1: friend show up. "I want you to keep $200k worth of assets hidden from my wife for some reason. If she knew, she would buy frivolous things."
Step 2: friend dies.
Step 3: go back to the wife. "Hey by the way, I have this $200k worth of watches that belong to your husband because I promised to be part of the lie with him. He thought you were making frivolous purchases"

That's a really nice situation that OP painted. It was unethical in the fist place, and now the spotlight in on OP.

Bonus point for "My wife is a spendy bitch, she would spend all the money on travel and clothes. I'm a responsible adult, I have $200k worth of watches I am hiding from here."

OP, the collection was never yours. Why is there any question about what to do. You need to fess up and face the consequences.