Keepin' it real fake

[CommanderJameson]

Spotted this in Marks & Sparks



An "homage", right?

Riiiight.

[Miguel Alvarez]

Oh dear.

[RemainAllHoof]

Wow. It's basically a Chinese knock-off shell... and clearly the M&S buyer doesn't know his/her watches.

Still, if I need spare parts for my Riseman, I bet the specs are pretty accurate...

[CommanderJameson]

On the plus side, the socks I bought are really good.

[RemainAllHoof]

CommanderJameson said:

On the plus side, the socks I bought are really good.

But are they a copy of, say, ear warmers?

[CommanderJameson]

RemainAllHoof said:

CommanderJameson said:

On the plus side, the socks I bought are really good.

But are they a copy of, say, ear warmers?

For those of you with rather extravagant ears, yes.

[RemainAllHoof]

Sorry, I was just thinking about my bunny.

[Mark.H]

Its easy to tell its a copy, they cant even spell ALARM, they spell it ALMON! HAHAHA!

Edited by Mark.H on Wednesday 18th May 14:04

[KP328]

I can understand if you saw that in a dodgy market somewhere, but Marks and Sparks?

thats not right ! quality control damnd it.

[Muncle Trogg]

A lot of the high street retailers appear to be doing the same. It's worse with perfume/aftershave, I even had one of the M&S staff telling me which brands they had copied!

[7Llewelyn]

I expect these watches will be cleared off the shelves of M&S as soon as Casio see them.

I see "split" (as in split time) is spelt SPUT!

Richard.

[Mark.H]

7Llewelyn said:

I expect these watches will be cleared off the shelves of M&S as soon as Casio see them.

I see "split" (as in split time) is spelt SPUT!

Richard.

Joke is on you, SPUT is a common feature on the G-Shock Cookman, it is a feature used for timing yer Spuds, or a SPUd-Timer if you will..

[RemainAllHoof]

at spelling errors.

What module do you lot think it uses. Clearly, the altimeter circle is blank. (If it did measure barometric pressure, I'll buy 100 of them and get them on ebay.)

[Spice_Weasel]

KP328 said:

I can understand if you saw that in a dodgy market somewhere, but Marks and Sparks?

thats not right ! quality control damnd it.

Having worked with merchandise buyers in a previous job, I can tell you that they regularly take a punt on rubbish that they hope might sell. A mate was head of procurement for a fashion chain, responsible for shop refits, corporate-wide purchases such as electricity contracts, buying bog rolls in bulk etc - basically everything except the merchandise. He claimed that the fashion buyers (who all seemed to be called Pandora or Lucinda) appeared to latch onto any old tat.

[RemainAllHoof]

Dear Marc Bolland

Why is your shop selling Chinese knock-off watches?

Yours sincerely,

Mr R Hoof

[Spice_Weasel]

Perhaps you could get into a knock off / hommage debate with him?

[RemainAllHoof]

Is he a watch enthusiast?

[Mark.H]

RemainAllHoof said:

Wow. It's basically a Chinese knock-off shell... and clearly the M&S buyer doesn't know his/her watches.

Still, if I need spare parts for my Riseman, I bet the specs are pretty accurate...

dont think its chinese, I think Spanish, check out the description printed for the light.

[shakotan]

E-mails sent to M&S and Casio...

[Spice_Weasel]

Here he is in his previous job. Is that a PP Calatrava? Or a Baume and Mercier? Or a Raymond Weil?