Hello everyone, my name is Richard Brown. I'm starting this blog mainly as a way of supporting my web site, the
Replica Watch Report. The Replica Watch Report is primarily a site for collecting information on detecting counterfeit watches.
Why A Site on Counterfeit Watches? Well, several countries in Asia are pumping out fake Rolex, fake Panerai, and "replicas" of several dozen other brand-name watches by the thousands each day. The majority of these watches are cheap "tourist" pieces that would stand up to close scrutiny. But there is a subset of higher-quality replica watches that actually strive for accuracy.
The high-end replica Rolex watches will use quality movements from Swiss manufacturers like ETA in order to closely emulate the genuine Rolex movement. Cases will be carved out of a single piece of solid stainless steel to nearly perfect dimensions. Computer-aided design has made replica watch manufacturing a growing business.
The
Replica Watch Report site collects as much
non-biased information on these replica watches as possible. Several other so-called "informational" sites on the Internet are in reality house-organs for some high-profile commercial replica watch sites. These web sites recommend that people send $700 or more on a "Grade 1" replica Rolex, when in reality most of these watches all come from the same factory. The "Grade 1" watches they're trying to sell you for $700 probably cost them $75 to purchase from Asia!
How did you get interested in replica watches? 7 years ago, when I first became aware of replica watches, they were crude and very unconvincing pieces of junk. The watch cases would be made from a base metal covered in a stainless steel plating. They'd use cheap Chinese movements that would break almost immediately, or worse, use quartz movements that "tick" and are easily detectible. At that point I feel replica watches weren't a threat to brands like Rolex and Cartier. You could spot a replica Rolex watch from 20 feet away!
3 years ago, when I returned to the scene, it was a different ballgame. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) had been introduced to places like Thailand and China on a level where it became possible for small- and mid-sized companies to purchase the equipment. With CAD came CNC machines, which allowed someone to convert a digital CAD drawing to an accurate physical piece of metal. This let the replica Rolex makers actually make replica parts that fit on genuine watches! The quality had improved by leaps and bounds.
And with this improvement in quality came a real dillema. The fake Rolex watch that only 5 years earlier was so easily detectible became more of a threat because of it's improved accuracy. No longer could completely untrained Rolex fans look at a fake Rolex and identify them as such 100% of the time. Now it took more knowledge to notice the subtler differences in case size or date fonts. Now it took
skill to identify fake watches.
That's where the
Replica Watch Report comes in.
Hello everyone, my name is Richard Brown. I'm starting this blog mainly as a way of supporting my web site, the Replica Watch Report. The Replica Watch Report is primarily a site for collecting information on detecting counterfeit watches.
