Page 2 of 2
Re: Attack of the Super Fakes
Posted: March 28th, 2020, 7:14 pm
by unreformed66
hako wrote: ↑March 28th, 2020, 6:43 pm
unreformed66 wrote: ↑March 28th, 2020, 6:12 pm
hako wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2020, 4:48 am
I wasn’t aware that the Swiss once were big in the rep game
And perhaps to add another hypothesis for the prevalence of reps:
If you can have sth so close to the real thing for 1/30 of the price, you start thinking that somebody is trying to rip you off and is making a mega profit...
"Swiss Fakes" of American pocket watches are a collectible category of their own. And regardless of what that article said they were NEVER even close in quality to the genuine American products.
They are collectibles nowadays???
I foresee a bright future for some Chinese factories
Or even for our builds ....
They're collected more as a novelty or an oddity than as serious watches. No money in them, they sell for nearly nothing.
Re: Attack of the Super Fakes
Posted: March 29th, 2020, 11:24 am
by earloflondon
hako wrote:unreformed66 wrote: ↑March 28th, 2020, 6:12 pm
hako wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2020, 4:48 am
I wasn’t aware that the Swiss once were big in the rep game
And perhaps to add another hypothesis for the prevalence of reps:
If you can have sth so close to the real thing for 1/30 of the price, you start thinking that somebody is trying to rip you off and is making a mega profit...
"Swiss Fakes" of American pocket watches are a collectible category of their own. And regardless of what that article said they were NEVER even close in quality to the genuine American products.
They are collectibles nowadays???
I foresee a bright future for some Chinese factories
Or even for our builds ....
Man, builds here are amazingly close to the gens. I sometimes ask myself why they even sell at such low prices
Sent from my SM-M205F using Tapatalk