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I bought a fake "Rolex" in Thailand, for $10. It actually didn't work very well. I guess there's a hierarchy even among the fake.
by AlbertCory 4y ago
I bought a fake "Rolex" in Thailand, for $10.
It actually didn't work very well. I guess there's a hierarchy even among the fake.
- mozman 4y agoI bought a $400 fake rolex. Aside from the glass not being sapphire you cannot tell the difference visually
- moneywoes 4y agoFrom whereabouts?
- ROTMetro 4y agoI got some fakes from a big warehouse in Shanghai. They had all levels of prices/quality. Our corporate guide found the shop for us. They had a whole wall of fake watches of different brands. My ex-wife got purses. I much preferred my real watches, but the fakes were for fancy dinners downtown in the big city in case I got mugged.
- mozman 4y agoLook for fake watch forums and their trusted vendor list. That’s how I found the seller I bought from. Took 4 weeks to arrive direct from China
- pclmulqdq 4y agoIs the escapement running at the same rate? A big part of the "rolex" appearance that is very hard to copy is the 8 ticks per second that the second hand goes through. I have seen very high quality Rolex copies before that don't do that, and are instantly recognizable as a fake to people who know a little bit about watches.
- dagw 4y agoIs the escapement running at the same rate? Absolutely. Modern fake Rolexes can only be told apart from a real one by an expert examining it with a loupe. And 8 tick pr second isn't that hard to replicate. Several ETA and Sellita calibers do it as well.
- PaulHoule 4y agoBack in the 1990s my dad's oldest brother went to the outskirts of NYC and was really impressed with the fake "Rolex" he bought. My mom was indignant about it because she sold men's clothing for a living and could tell you exactly how a fake Tommy Hilfiger shirt was worse in so many ways than a real one. Two weeks later the watch stopped running. Around the same time, though, my mom's youngest brother was driving on the cross-Bronx throughway, stopped to help somebody whose car was pulled over on the side of the road, and found the driver had been shot dead.
- GTP 4y ago>Around the same time, though, my mom's youngest brother was driving on the cross-Bronx throughway, stopped to help somebody whose car was pulled over on the side of the road, and found the driver had been shot dead. I don't get what this has too do with the fake rolex.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> My mom was indignant about it because she sold men's clothing for a living and could tell you exactly how a fake Tommy Hilfiger shirt was worse in so many ways than a real one. Gomorrah opens with a description of Italian clothing manufacturing. As described there, the difference between a fake shirt and a real shirt is that they were made to the same specifications under one and the same contract, by different factories, and the real one got delivered faster than the fake one did. Only the first guy to deliver gets paid. It's an interesting book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250145031/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250145031/