Fakey McFakeface
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I'm a noob to this whole watch thing, but surely any sane person will spot this as a fake.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Patek-Philippe-Patek-Ph...
Wonky lettering
Blue screws (never used in a Patek movement I believe)
Wonky bad English engraving
Use of "&co" and odd spaced :
Claims to be WW2, but an excuse for shonky work
Basic looking movement
Serial number on movement not inner case back (which does not equate to 1940's serial numbers) - ooddly, no photo of inner case back
and too cheap to be true.
Yet they're up to £418 with 3 days to go.
I need to get myself some Chinese Pateks and make a few quid.
Sold for three grand, brilliant!
No idea what kind of scam is going on there, but no way did someone pay £3k for that!
A sadder on for me, since it's being sold by a charity shop, was this fake Tag 6000-ish with a glass caseback and God knows what movement!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-TAG-HEUER-Chronome...
What's even weirder is that it's being sold for spares/repair, so you'd expect whoever pays >£100 for it to be after legit tag parts.
No idea what kind of scam is going on there, but no way did someone pay £3k for that!
A sadder on for me, since it's being sold by a charity shop, was this fake Tag 6000-ish with a glass caseback and God knows what movement!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-TAG-HEUER-Chronome...
What's even weirder is that it's being sold for spares/repair, so you'd expect whoever pays >£100 for it to be after legit tag parts.
DickyC said:
Could buying a fake for a lot of money on a public auction be a money laundering route? Vendor and buyer in cahoots. Hidden in plain sight, that sort of malarkey.
Perhaps. But one party would have sold a fake watch publicly and the other has, on record, bought an asset for multiples of its real value. And laundering a couple of hundred quid doesn't seem very efficient.At least with a casino/strip club you can just say "yeah, we took in xyz from the public", it was a good month. Buying on ebay you'd have told them where the money came from.
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