Buying Rolex GMT Master Head Only

[MVP]

Originally Posted by watchuneedthemost

Ok, update! I made an offer of a 100 bucks....guy said he already has people offering more than 2K....I said, take that and run (and don't look back). Overwhelming response BTW from this forum. Thank you all!

If he has people offering over $2K then why can't he at least give you that as a starting price/ why isn't he taking those offers? How did you find this clown? Seems so sketchy

[slipperman]

Originally Posted by Valkyrie

I'm not seeing it. The hour hand looks nearly flush with the dial to me. At best, I would agree the pics are inconclusive. To be clear, I am not arguing the watch is genuine but rather nothing in the pics is an obvious fake.

While scratching my head as to why an undamaged GMT head with something rattling around inside and no bracelet is offered for sale it occurs to me that someone with the skill and tools might have swapped out the 3186 movement into a 16710 GMT, turning a $6K watch into a $15K watch and selling off the 116710 head and bracelet. They should be able to get $1500 for the bracelet and whatever they get for the head is gravy. They may not have taken the effort to make the head work since you could then tell it had the wrong movement. In any case, pure speculation on my part.

open the last pic in a browser window by itself and zoom in; the shadow from the hour hand is plain as day.

[watchuneedthemost]

Originally Posted by MVP

If he has people offering over $2K then why can't he at least give you that as a starting price/ why isn't he taking those offers? How did you find this clown? Seems so sketchy

"Clown" came as a reference from a guy I sold my Breitling to earlier this year. I had told him that I wanted to purchase a GMT or a Green Submariner (Hulk) version at some point and he came across this guy (don't know how) and referred him to me.....

[southcarolina1801]

Yeah I'm going with fake as well... the Rolex print on the dial doesn't look big enough to me

[ttnpb]

SMH at people giving advice about this watch. Anyone with enough knowledge to give advice will spot this as a middle of the road replica from a mile away.

The end all is the incorrect hand sequence. Any information beyond that is purely supplemental and not required.

For instance : insert is trash, missing the visible serif on the "1"'s, color and depth is wrong as well. Fonts just wrong.

Dial is wrong, coronet is wrong. Rehaut engravings should be more apparent even giving the quality of the photography. 9/6 o clock hour markers appear off. Unfinished lugs.

Just pure shit.

A little update:

I generally also have a slight distrust for people who show their watch without a photograph with the pearl at 12. I generally assume there is an alignment issue one is trying to obfuscate.

No dead on picture, well not entirely. It looks as if the cyclops is a bit wonky as well.

This is a 150$ replica.

I maintain that I will never even entertain the idea of purchasing a multi thousand dollar watch from anyone that takes this quality pictures.

[crowncollection]

Get some decent pics


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[ttnpb]

Originally Posted by crowncollection

Get some decent pics


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Lol. Why?


No camera is going to make that watch genuine.

[GLADIATOR]

Originally Posted by ttnpb

Lol. Why?


No camera is going to make that watch genuine.

No. But it may catagorically prove its fake!

[waQstar]

The watch is no bueno.

[TempoKing]

Originally Posted by sachal007

the watch is a fake!

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[daferz]

what was the "serial number"? Goggle it and see how many Chinese fakes come up haha.

[freefly]

Originally Posted by ttnpb

SMH at people giving advice about this watch. Anyone with enough knowledge to give advice will spot this as a middle of the road replica from a mile away.

+1

Hard to believe some of these "real or not" threads with obvious fakes get to multiple pages.