New Watch

[M0nkeyb0Y]

Actually, saw this watch on a blog a couple of months ago (again Nixon) and covetted it:



However at £200, it's just too much cash

[Clunk]

That looks like some bathroom scales from the "I saw you coming" shop

[M0nkeyb0Y]

OMG - I've just read the specs from the sale site: apparently it's a shade smaller that the average bungalow.

[MadduckUK]

That looks like some bathroom scales from the "I saw you coming" shop

scales with STEPS

[Hans Voralberg]

Actually, saw this watch on a blog a couple of months ago (again Nixon) and covetted it:



However at £200, it's just too much cash

I love that what's the name ?

[Clunk]

scales with STEPS

[Brucelles]

You can get a nice quality replica Rolex from here (Waterproof to 30 metres, and warrantied for 2 years) or other fakes, not necessarily Rolex, from here. I bought a copy of my actual Breitling, as servicing a Breitling takes about 6 weeks and I didn't want to go without.

This place has slightly more expensive replicas, but they are very good.



Notice that the smaller dials are slightly above the centre; 99% indistinguishable from the real thing.



I know you like leather, but these guys have leather straps, I only showed you the Rolex Daytona because I have the same model, but real, and this copy is the best I have seen outside of a real Swiss copy at $800-1200. (400-600 quid). My jeweller couldn't tell without opening it.

[ikonia]

Isn't that illegal passing a watch off as a geuine.

Even if they advertise them as fake, isn't using the word "rolex" a trade mark breach ?

[Brucelles]

Yes. It's illegal to sell them. However....

Tbh the good fakes are very good. I was unclear about models, but my Rolex fake is so good I couildn't tell which one was real myself and wore the fake diving in the Maldives, thinking it was the real one. It stayed good to 24 metres and we dived every day for 2 weeks, sometimes twice. I have had it for about 5 years (bought it in Abu Dhabi, legally) and it serve as the household spare. It's always right, looks great, waterproof and doesn't need a service every 3 years at a cost of 325 euros. For a hundred quid you can't really knock it.

[Brucelles]

Just to add. Don't buy a Rolex from eBay.

Even the documentation, holograms, box, warranty card etc. are all faked to the absolute Nth degree. Good Swiss fakes are indistinguishable from the real thing, literally. Rolex themselves can't tell the difference. Some people have had a fake for years without knowing, until it was sent back to the factory and someone noticed that the same watch was owned from new by a man from Texas and was in the shop being serviced now. They use the same materials, the same movements, the same craftsmen (retire from Rolex and start a new career as a Swiss faker) and are real, to all intents and purposes.

Raises questions about the actual value of a Rolex.

[MadduckUK]

is Brucelles the new bsodmike? where is the old bsodmike? who would win in a (watch)face-off?

[kalniel]

BSODmike would probably have an appoplexy at the mention of the word 'fake' He had some gorgeous timepeices.

There are some quirky independant designer shops around the place where you can pick up some fab watches if you like something a bit different - and they're not always any pricier either.

[Brucelles]

is Brucelles the new bsodmike? where is the old bsodmike? who would win in a (watch)face-off?

BSODmike? Sounds like the British Standards Organisation Department of Mike.

I'm not really a watch person, though I have 5 (2 fakes). I bought the expensive ones while I was in a country with no purchase tax at about half the UK high street rate, thinking to make a few quid. I was wrong. Try reselling a £5,000 watch in Britain. You'll be offered £1,500 if you don't look desperate. I bought the fakes so I could wear the watches without scratching them before I sold them. I also have a plain steel Seiko, that goes down to 200 metres, is never wrong, needs a new battery every four years and cost £90 (in Abu Dhabi). It's my favourite.

IMO Rolexes and the like are a monstrous waste of money, like nearly all jewellery.

[MadduckUK]

BSODmike? Sounds like the British Standards Organisation Department of Mike.

i always presumed it was Blue Screen Of Death Mike, but i could very well be totally of the mark with that

[Brucelles]

I guess it's obvious when you think about it.

[Clunk]

i always presumed it was Blue Screen Of Death Mike, but i could very well be totally of the mark with that

Blue screen of death mark?

Is that the futuristic Bruce Lee film?