Spot the fake

[NDA]

lostkiwi said:

Where else can you get a 'Sky Dweller' for under £30...
https://m.dhgate.com/product/luxury-watch-sky-dwel...

That is so bad it's almost tempting to have one!

[anonymous-user]

If we do a group buy we can get them for 18USD



WANT

[Ninjin]

El stovey said:

If we do a group buy we can get them for 18USD



WANT

That is really bad. Like the £30 fakes you picked up in Spain of years gone past. Not even automatic but they haven't even got the dimensions right...

[NDA]

El stovey said:

If we do a group buy we can get them for 18USD



WANT

Interesting that it doesn't feature the Rolex logo.

[hotchy]

Ninjin said:

El stovey said:

If we do a group buy we can get them for 18USD



WANT

That is really bad. Like the £30 fakes you picked up in Spain of years gone past. Not even automatic but they haven't even got the dimensions right...

You paid £30? I'm sure I used to bring the guy down to 10/15 after a good 10 mins of pretending to walk away lol

[Greendubber]

NDA said:

El stovey said:

If we do a group buy we can get them for 18USD



WANT

Interesting that it doesn't feature the Rolex logo.

It will when it turns up, well something that kind of resembles a Rolex logo I'm sure.

[anonymous-user]

If it’s got no logo it’s a homage which is fine

[woody33]

Voldemort said:

<cough> Breguet </cough> [granted, also resurrected by Swatch]

Seastorm was actually correct. Blancpain is the oldest Brand. Not sure why you would think Breguet is ??

[lostkiwi]

woody33 said:

Voldemort said:

<cough> Breguet </cough> [granted, also resurrected by Swatch]

Seastorm was actually correct. Blancpain is the oldest Brand. Not sure why you would think Breguet is ??

Technically Blancpain is the oldest registered watch brand.
There are others are older.

[woody33]

lostkiwi said:

Technically Blancpain is the oldest registered watch brand.
There are others are older.

and...your point is ?? If we're going to include random blokes making time instruments in the 15/16/17 hundreds we may as well go back to the Greeks and the sun dial

Edited by woody33 on Friday 14th February 20:22

[lostkiwi]

woody33 said:

lostkiwi said:

Technically Blancpain is the oldest registered watch brand.
There are others are older.

and...whats your point ??

That there were earlier watch makers producing watches/timepieces to sell.
For example:

1466 Gallett
1681 JeanRichard
1695 Graham
1721 Raketa

All predate Blancpain (1735)
Blancpain also had a gap in production meaning Vacheron Constantin (1737) are the oldest brand in continuous production.

[woody33]

lostkiwi said:

That there were earlier watch makers producing watches/timepieces to sell.
For example:

1466 Gallett
1681 JeanRichard
1695 Graham
1721 Raketa

All predate Blancpain (1735)
Blancpain also had a gap in production meaning Vacheron Constantin (1737) are the oldest brand in continuous production.

Mate, it's a stupid argument. The world of horology has apparently been unanimous in accepting that Blancpain is the oldest watch brand.......but you have decided in your own little bubble that there is an alternate reality which needs to correct this gross mis-justice in historical fact. Go for it, if it makes you feel better.........

[Doofus]

woody33 said:

Mate, it's a stupid argument. The world of horology has apparently been unanimous in accepting that Blancpain is the oldest watch brand.......but you have decided in your own little bubble that there is an alternate reality which needs to correct this gross mis-justice in historical fact. Go for it, if it makes you feel better.........

Calm down, grumpy.

It's a thread about fakes, and you're getting arsey about who was the first watchmaker?

[lostkiwi]

Doofus said:

woody33 said:

Mate, it's a stupid argument. The world of horology has apparently been unanimous in accepting that Blancpain is the oldest watch brand.......but you have decided in your own little bubble that there is an alternate reality which needs to correct this gross mis-justice in historical fact. Go for it, if it makes you feel better.........

Calm down, grumpy.

It's a thread about fakes, and you're getting arsey about who was the first watchmaker?

Grumpy is right!
It's off topic but take some time out to read this - it's actually quite interesting and I'm sure most would learn something.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yourwatchhub.com/...

[woody33]

Doofus said:

woody33 said:

Mate, it's a stupid argument. The world of horology has apparently been unanimous in accepting that Blancpain is the oldest watch brand.......but you have decided in your own little bubble that there is an alternate reality which needs to correct this gross mis-justice in historical fact. Go for it, if it makes you feel better.........

Calm down, grumpy.

It's a thread about fakes, and you're getting arsey about who was the first watchmaker?

Yes, indeed, probably a bit grumpy......

[seastorm]

woody33 said:

Mate, it's a stupid argument. The world of horology has apparently been unanimous in accepting that Blancpain is the oldest watch brand.......but you have decided in your own little bubble that there is an alternate reality which needs to correct this gross mis-justice in historical fact. Go for it, if it makes you feel better.........

Yes it's a post about fake watches, so whichever real Swiss watchmaker came first is not that relevant to the Chinese mega factories that are producing these (quite impressive) copy watches.

But I did bring up BlancPain. The poster above is correct. BlancPain is regarded as the oldest but it did go bust and stop producing for a while. So its not the oldest in 'continuous production'. But yes, regarded by all its peers as the oldest.

Does that matter to China? No. Or the buyers of fake BlancPain watches? No. Or 99.99% of any population? No.

But it matters to me. And probably most reading this thread who like watches and admire the work and design and craftsmanship etc. Maybe a bit of 'look what I'm wearing' too. Sad but that's life these days in certain environments.

All part of the experience of a piece of jewellery on your arm. We all have the time (atomic clock) in our pocket. These items therefore become jewlerly. Nothing wrong with that. I don't care if someone wears 100 pounds or 100,000 pounds on their wrist.

Edited by seastorm on Saturday 15th February 10:22

[Ed T]

Where can I get a decent fake then?

[Countdown]

seastorm said:

All part of the experience of a piece of jewellery on your arm. We all have the time (atomic clock) in our pocket. These items therefore become jewlerly. Nothing wrong with that. I don't care if someone wears 100 pounds or 100,000 pounds on their wrist.

Edited by seastorm on Saturday 15th February 10:22

If somebody is wearing a £100 piece of jewellery pretending it’s worth £100,000 that’s going to upset some people who’ve paid out £100,000 for what looks like (and may even be, to all intents and purposes) the same.

[Barchettaman]

Ed T said:

Where can I get a decent fake then?

Oxymoron?

I’ll put that in my list, alongside classy tattoo, principled politician, intelligent tabloid and police intelligence.

[lostkiwi]

Ed T said:

Where can I get a decent fake then?

There are dedicated watch forums for that kind of thing.