Is my inherited Rolex a fake?

[DCgator]

Originally Posted by Zikku

I'm sorry if I offended you guys. I assumed you were a passionate group open to newcomers.

I will admit, I am not a watch enthusiast. I am a 22 year female that just graduated from college. My great grandmother, Cora Duruttya, died in 2011, and my mother collected the watch from her.

I've been unemployed since mid-September because my previous job was a work study job at the college. My mother, knowing that Rolex watches are very expensive, thought that it could prove helpful in giving me the watch and checking it out for its authenticity. You know, to help pay rent.

I didn't think I'd have to explain myself to you. I would never be able to afford a real Rolex watch on my own, so I have no intentions on buying one. However, if it was real, it could have helped me and my mother with our bills.

I also thought that this forum would have been much safer than visiting a jeweler, or watchmaker, that could easily take advantage of a naive young person like myself. So thank you guys, I appreciate knowing the truth. But perhaps, please be a bit nicer?

And I did stay online, refreshing this page, for a good amount of time before I decided to do something else. I'm sorry I didn't stare it down longer than 45 minutes.

And if it is too much trouble, I would like to know what details make it a fake. I'm not skilled at detecting them, but I'll probably still wear it to feel important in the world. If it is too much trouble, then fine. You can always Google me. My name is Tessa Liddington, my mother is Lucinda Liddington. I've got nothing to hide. In fact, this username, Zikku, was a high school alias I liked to use. Perhaps you'll find it elsewhere on the internet connected to me. I must have really thought out this con, guys. Really.

Anyway, I appreciate the blunt responses in any event. Happy Holidays.

Welcome aboard Tessa. I am convinced you are legit and your inquiry was legit. There are many reasons why skepticism is very high on this forum, as some have stated. I am sorry to hear that your inheritance was judged fake and do hope your great grandma did not get cheated by paying a lot of money for the watch. She might have not known it was a fake but was thoughtful enough to hand it down to family.

Best to you in your endeavors. Happy holidays!
/JD

[Zikku]

Originally Posted by DCgator

Welcome aboard Tessa. I am convinced you are legit and your inquiry was legit. There are many reasons why skepticism is very high on this forum, as some have stated. I am sorry to hear that your inheritance was judged fake and do hope your great grandma did not get cheated by paying a lot of money for the watch. She might have not known it was a fake but was thoughtful enough to hand it down to family.

Best to you in your endeavors. Happy holidays!
/JD

Thank you very much. I appreciate your kind words. I doubt my great grandmother knew it's worth. She was a kind of a hoarder after all, and would've kept it even if she knew it was fake. I guess I'm similar since I'll still keep it for the memory, anyway.

Happy holidays to you as well!

[Vincent65]

well, that shut up the rude, assumption-making, finger-pointers, didn't it

[dysondiver]

lol ,,,, no , if i had a penny for every time ive heard that story , usually out of ghana , all you need now is a sick child and ill send some cash now .
the web has turned up as many bad traits in people as good. sign of the times.
i dont doubt that sometimes the storys may be true , but ,,, if it looks like a fish and smells like a fish , it isnt a frog.
if rolex are so expensive etc etc , where did the gran get it from without anyone noticing.
i fear that the one or two posters that turn up with these watches use the forum as a test before the watches go on flea bay , if everyone says very nice i dont dobt the pages would be used as a guide for the poor buyer. thats not meant to sound nasty ,,, just realistic.

[joseluu]

Originally Posted by dysondiver

lol ,,,, no , if i had a penny for every time ive heard that story , usually out of ghana , all you need now is a sick child and ill send some cash now .
the web has turned up as many bad traits in people as good. sign of the times.
i dont doubt that sometimes the storys may be true , but ,,, if it looks like a fish and smells like a fish , it isnt a frog.
if rolex are so expensive etc etc , where did the gran get it from without anyone noticing.
i fear that the one or two posters that turn up with these watches use the forum as a test before the watches go on flea bay , if everyone says very nice i dont dobt the pages would be used as a guide for the poor buyer. thats not meant to sound nasty ,,, just realistic.

I am sorry to say, but I fully agree. The sad stories of selling a Rolex to pay for rent, for university or for sickness are repeated so often that I don´t believe them any longer. NEVER.

The great grandmoter of a 22 year old must be what, around 100? when and for what purpose would she have bought a man´s Rolex and why would she have kept it knowing that the family needed the money? There may be a good explanation for everything and what happens is that I am a diehard cinic. In that case (rare as it might be) we would have found the needle in the proverbial haystack.

Scammers and counterfeiters come here often to see how good there wares are and set the price accordingly. Well, this one will not sell for much.

[rioc]

+1

[Zikku]

My great grandmother lived in another state. I didn't know her very well while growing up and I'm quite sure everyone here understands the kinds of secrets family members keep from each other. It's not like we all kept tabs on her. Not until the last few years where everyone was trying to get "in" on her will. Whether she bought the watch, stole it, or knew it was a fake, I wouldn't know. And I can't quite ask her about it.

I didn't know it was a man's style. I don't even know the model. Perhaps my great grandmother is the Rolex con artist, ha!

And the woman was in her early 90's. My grandfather, her son, is in his mid 60's. My mother, his daughter, is 46. My older sister (who is now 26) has a 5-year old daughter that was born before my great grand mother died. We were blessed to have 5 generations alive all at once. We even got together to take photos to send to the newspaper. I don't know if they ever got sent, but I'm sure my mother has them somewhere.

Regardless if you believe in my honest inquiry (or existence as it would seem), this will be my last post explaining myself to you all. Perhaps you've learned something, and perhaps not. I am still appreciative of the honest answers I received for the question. Thank you. As for the rest of you: good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

[bayerische]

Well Tessa, It's impossible to know a persons true intentions by 5 posts on a forum.

Whatever the case, the watch is fake. We don't discuss fakes, so that's why no one really pointed out all what's wrong with it. Even if someone pointed out all what's wrong it would take a long post.

Most here aren't mean at all. I don't think there's a single "real" TRF member that is mean. Stay along if your interested in watches, and you'll see what I mean.

The story of the "grandmother/father/brother/past away relative" watch that is a Rolex is seen daily. And upon opening the thread there's a fake watch in 99% of the threads. It get's like a broken record, and people (users) tend to act accordingly, sometimes a bit harsh.

Welcome to the forum, it's the friendliest forum I know. Merry christmas to you and your family.

[Aficionado1964]

Well as a noob myself, I am so glad I did not see this thread before I plunged in asking for feedback on my father-in-law's GMT Pepsi from his NASA flight director days.

I will say however, TRF users were very helpful in pointing things out to me, which I appreciated.

Bummer the few legit "stories" get mucked up by the plethora of fake stories.

Cheers to 2013!

Sean

[joseluu]

Originally Posted by Aficionado1964

Well as a noob myself, I am so glad I did not see this thread before I plunged in asking for feedback on my father-in-law's GMT Pepsi from his NASA flight director days.

I will say however, TRF users were very helpful in pointing things out to me, which I appreciated.

Bummer the few legit "stories" get mucked up by the plethora of fake stories.

Cheers to 2013!

Sean

Don´t be mistaken. If your story would have come accompanied with a FAKE watch that you needed to sell to pay for education, you would probably have received the same treatment. In your case, the watch was legitimate (and nice, by the way) and that made your questions legitimate too.

[Knappo 1307]

I'm still on the fence about this story. I'm sure the op had a great grandmother and that whole family history is true. But the part about great granny hoarding a men's fake Rolex is suspect. My feeling is the watch was bought or "found" by the op, and "he or she" was doing some trolling for information. Either way the watch is a bust, and I think the op got the info they needed...

[joseluu]

Originally Posted by Knappo 1307

I'm still on the fence about this story. I'm sure the op had a great grandmother and that whole family history is true. But the part about great granny hoarding a men's fake Rolex is suspect. My feeling is the watch was bought or "found" by the op, and "he or she" was doing some trolling for information. Either way the watch is a bust, and I think the op got the info they needed...

My dear friend, I couldn´t agree more. We ALL have a great-grandmother (four actually) and a family history.

[michel33]

nt

[francis]

Originally Posted by Zikku

Thank you, Beelzy, for pointing that out. After you mentioned it, I looked at the watch a little closer. I wasn't totally convinced so I took a photo with it slanted to see the number without the cyclops (which I had to look up what that is, by the way), and then another through it.

I still couldn't tell the difference, so I finally took one when the littlest hand passing through it. That definitely shows the lack of magnification.

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I am disappointed that it is a fake, but life will go on. On a side note, why does it say 29?

I am for sure no Rolex expert and I may being way wrong here but it is my assertion that the reason it says 29 is because that is the number right before 30 which coincidentally corresponds to the number of days in some months.... :)

[joseluu]

Originally Posted by tablia

I am for sure no Rolex expert and I may being way wrong here but it is my assertion that the reason it says 29 is because that is the number right before 30 which coincidentally corresponds to the number of days in some months.... :)

Let´s wait for the experts to sort that out...

[francis]

Wait... I just glanced down at my Hamilton Khaki King with an ETA movement and it has the number 16 on it !?..... this is getting weird

[joseluu]

Originally Posted by tablia

Wait... I just glanced down at my Hamilton Khaki King with an ETA movement and it has the number 16 on it !?..... this is getting weird

The Hamilton is cheaper, that´s why it only goes to 16 and not to 29.

[mikkibarry]

FYI: My daughter is 21 and her great grandmother is 93 and still kicking. So it's certainly not impossible. I'm sorry for your loss. It is something I will have to face at some point as well.

[DocLogic]

It's such a bad fake, that I knew it was fake within 20 seconds of looking at it and I have just started studying Rolexes.

[francis]

Originally Posted by joseluu

The Hamilton is cheaper, that´s why it only goes to 16 and not to 29.

i thought as much but ya never know....

[newbieincali]

why would a hand me down have stickers?

[cedargrove]

Originally Posted by financeman

You know when I first came on the forum, I saw the posts from you guys saying that people would come in and ask if there great great grandmothers watch was fake, or I found it at a flea market, and so on. Y'all said that it would happen all the time. I thought to myself that there couldn't be that many of them but boy was I wrong. It seems like one comes up every day. I see why y'all get jaded to them. I am sure there is one every once in a while that really inherited a fake but all the scammers out there make it hard for those guys.
Y'all are also correct that they are mostly from first time posters who don't introduce themselves and then never post again.
Sorry for the long post but just wanted to share what I have witnessed since I joined. On e again, you guys are 100% correct. Lol

Yup.

[cht]

Originally Posted by tablia

I am for sure no Rolex expert and I may being way wrong here but it is my assertion that the reason it says 29 is because that is the number right before 30 which coincidentally corresponds to the number of days in some months.... :)

Originally Posted by joseluu

Let´s wait for the experts to sort that out...

Ok, I know this thread is back from the dead, but, omg ahahaha!

[FiveLongYears]

Originally Posted by newbieincali

why would a hand me down have stickers?

Good point. Beating a dead horse, but the watch looks clean and it does have a sticker on the back, so that does seem odd for a hand-me-down.