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7 July 2020, 10:53 AM | #11 |
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OK, I did a bit of snooping and here's what I found. I decided to search for some other watches with Swiss made surrounded by crowns on both sides. I was able to find one other watch in Japan with same reference, 279174. I don't want to share links as it might be against the rules (I always forget whether it is so I'll air on side of safety) but go onto C24 and search for that reference and sort by new. Most recent salmon dial one. Additionally I was able to find it on 2 watches with RG TT, 279171. Also sort by new, purple dial in NL and Sundust dial with the same star diamonds as OPs watch just in TT version in HK. So the crowns around Swiss made aren't all that strange. I bet Rolex would show it off this Baselworld along with some new dial option and perhaps change the rendering on the website, but it didn't happen so those watches that made their way to ADs already started selling and now we see them out there in real world.
I also did a bit of snooping and arrived at same conclusion as SN13 regarding diamond star. On fake, it seems like the star around the diamond is just a pentagon with a raised dot at each edge, whereas OPs along with the picture SN13 provided and the TT watch in HK all have a sort of spike shooting off out of diamond. So based on this I have no issues with the watch. Also since it came from an AD I wouldn't be worried. But here's where things go wrong for me. The font on the warranty card where it states the model is too thick as well as where it states dd-mm-yyyy. Also all the cards I have seen show dd/mm/yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy and where it states name of an AD, they show country code first and then the name of an AD. Perhaps I'm wrong in this case. Perhaps there is a country by country variation and SG warranty cards have a thick font and state dd-mm-yyyy and don't list a country code before the name of an AD. But that is the only thing that is making me question it now. If someone can confirm that the font and writing on the card is correct, I'd have no issues trusting that watch is definitely real. Otherwise, I am slightly suspicious, but not significantly so if the watch was bought straight from an AD. More curious even than suspicious. |
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