Replica watches

[Farky]

I'll cut to the chase..........
Can't afford the real mccoys so where the best place to buy replica watches?
Quite fancy a Tag Gulf edition

[CardShark]

Tao and Parnis make "homages" (very simular styles without directly copying every detail), as for fakes... well any site that I've been aware of I wouldn't trust.

All in all, very dodgy ground

[Codswallop]

If you can't afford the real deal, don't buy a replica. Or at least, I wouldn't. I'd feel like such a tt when someone noticed I was pretending...

Plenty of very nice real watches for any budget.

For what it's worth, I have just come back to Singapore from Hong Kong, and I was seriously tempted before hand to get a cheap tourbillion skeleton watch (not a replica, but still something cheap and Chinese), and tbh, the quality was so poor and weight so light that I decided even the 20-50 pound asking prices were too much. Then again, my daily watch is an Omega Speedmaster with steel braclet, so after that, most things feel light and flimsy.

There's more to owning a nice watch than the brand name... and I doubt you'd get that type of pleasure from a fake.

[mike325112]

Ive got a fake breitling which i got in Dubai - I liked it at first but I just don't wear it now as to those in the know its obviously fake and to the average person its a big brash watch.

I've since started looking at vintage watches on ebay (yes I know those can be faked to) but you can get some lovely watches for not a lot of cash. They are also far classier than some of the modern items.

[Stuart]

Chaps,

We don't really do fake watches here. It is a controversial subject and one where opinions are usually polarised. We try and keep the watch forum light on moderation, but could we please resist the temptation to, for example, post links to websites where fake watches can be bought, or even to an endless discussion about the merits or perils of buying them.

People will come to the subject either firmly against of firmly for, but we've had the discussion here plenty of times and I see no reason for a repeat of it.

Thanks,

Stuart

[Buster73]

Stuart said:

Chaps,

We don't really do fake watches here. It is a controversial subject and one where opinions are usually polarised. We try and keep the watch forum light on moderation, but could we please resist the temptation to, for example, post links to websites where fake watches can be bought, or even to an endless discussion about the merits or perils of buying them.

People will come to the subject either firmly against of firmly for, but we've had the discussion here plenty of times and I see no reason for a repeat of it.

Thanks,

Stuart

Fair point , but do not forget a lot of us have only recently found the forums on here and are asking questions that are relevant to them unaware of previous posts or threads.

[Lunablack]

FWIW...

Although I'm firmly in the camp of I wouldn't wear a fake.... And would rather just buy a cheaper watch...

Today I handled a fake Bell & Ross, the big square one.... The chap had paid 120 for it (don't know where from) but I have to say, it was bloody heavy, and to me, I'm unfamiliar with this brand, it felt, and looked fantastic.....

There was nothing about it, that made me think cheap crap... In fact, it looked like a 3k watch..

[andy_s]

Buster73 said:

Fair point , but do not forget a lot of us have only recently found the forums on here and are asking questions that are relevant to them unaware of previous posts or threads.

That's understandable chap, and I think Stuart was only looking at pointing out the pitfalls for those that weren't so familiar.

[audidoody]

The only person you are fooling when you buy a fake/replica is yourself. You either aspire to own the real thing or you aspire to try and fool people into forming an incorrect impression of you.


Get a Seiko

[jonno990]

Fake Tag Gulf you say? Saw this on ebay the other week, started at 100

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180819605476?ssPageName=...

[Stuart]

andy_s said:

That's understandable chap, and I think Stuart was only looking at pointing out the pitfalls for those that weren't so familiar.

Exactly, thanks Andy. Not having a go, just gently letting any relative newcomers know what the score is on this stuff here.

[936ADL]

too sad for words.......

[JAM35F]

I think the reason PH does not allow us to talk about replicas/fakes or post up links to sites selling them is because it would adversely affect sales of replicas/fakes in the PH classifieds. Pot and kettle....

Now shall I buy a Rolex, Omega or Pam...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3743297.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3673560.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3671260.htm

[RichB]

JAM35F said:

I think the reason PH does not allow us to talk about replicas/fakes or post up links to sites selling them is because it would adversely affect sales of replicas/fakes in the PH classifieds. Pot and kettle....

Now shall I buy a Rolex, Omega or Pam...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3743297.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3673560.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3671260.htm

So is 'homage' the euphemism for fake

[JAM35F]

A homage is a fake when it still has the brand name on the face. Plenty of unbranded 'homages' in the PH classifieds but understandably it's subjective as to if they are fakes in the true sense of the word.

But my links are all to genuine fakes!

[RichB]

JAM35F said:

But my links are all to genuine fakes!

Indeed, I was being mildly ironic because they all have the brand name on yet two of them call them homages

[Stuart]

JAM35F said:

I think the reason PH does not allow us to talk about replicas/fakes or post up links to sites selling them is because it would adversely affect sales of replicas/fakes in the PH classifieds. Pot and kettle....

Now shall I buy a Rolex, Omega or Pam...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3743297.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3673560.htm

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3671260.htm

It would be really useful if you could just take a couple of seconds to report these when you see them. We don't have enough resource to proactively go through the watches section in the same way we do used cars, so it would be helpful if you could report on sight.

[JAM35F]

Have never seen the report button, will press it in future. (do sirens go off? I hope so)

I know you guys are busy, just couldn't resist having a play. Now is an Ac Cobra replica technically a fake...

[RichB]

JAM35F said:

... Now is an Ac Cobra replica technically a fake...

If it wears an Ac badge rather than Hawk

[JAM35F]

Like this Hawk in the classifieds?