He won’t give him the time of day.
An Upper East Sider says he used his pricey Patek Philippe as collateral on a potential real-estate deal — and now he can’t get the wristwatch back.
Rock J. Walker handed over his $70,000 platinum watch as a token of good faith while trying to buy a duplex co-op on East 69th Street from Clifford Hartman, Walker says in Manhattan Supreme Court papers filed last week.
Hartman was supposed to return the watch when the $1.165 million purchase either failed or was finalized.
Except Hartman “at no time intended to sell the duplex co-op unit” to Walker, the suit charges.
He used Walker’s proposal for leverage and “made false and misleading representations” to another buyer, who ended up paying $1.5 million for the space, Walker claims.
Hartman now won’t — or can’t — return the watch, says Walker, who suggests Hartman may have lost it.
Walker wants more than $650,000 in damages.
Hartman could not be reached for comment.