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With regards to the scenario you suggest, most people have many more things in life to worry about than if the person at their Rolex AD is secretly selling fakes. Although anything can happen (such as the situation you described) I think that it is safe to say this would be a rare thing indeed. If you are so concerned, then I would suggest there are ways around this that do not require you to buy a complicated watch......such as taking your new purchase to the nearest RSC to verify it's authenticity. I may be reading you wrong, but you seem to want to put Rolex down for their designs, for a reason that is not really valid if as a watch purchaser you know what you are doing. A Rolex is what it is, a simple, rugged watch. |
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Now, if it's the owner of the AD that is committing the fraud, you might have a problem collecting, but that's where the saying "sh*t happens" comes from. Sometimes there's nothing you can do to get compensated for a wrong doing.
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The scenario you speak of, although extremely unlikely, could play out involving any watch brand Omega, Breitling, Tag, Panerai etc. You seem to feel that a watches complications makes it impervious to replication. The fact is that there are a great many very complicated watches that are replicated. Most of the grade 1 swiss FAKES, which sell for up-wards of $750, use a swiss movement, thus enabling it to have a chronograph, moon phase, 24 hr hand and so on. Complications are no guarantee against replication. |
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You are a bit of a pessimist and do have an over-active imagination. The scenario you've described above is virtually impossible. I use the word "virtually" because by that I mean "impossible" for all practical purposes. When a consignment of watches (all watches) come into the shop of an AD, each watch gets its own shop number. Each and every watch's numbering is supervised by a senior staff member. Each and every watch is catalogued and downloaded into their computer. Each and every watch then gets this special shop number written in hand behind the watch. This sticker is taken off at the time of sale. I should know this 'cause I've seen it like a million times and know about this first hand from the dealer himself. It would, therefore, be virtually impossible for one "bad apple" in the shop to carry out any hanky-panky without being caught within a couple of days. Trust me...the scenario you described ever happening at a regular AD is total Cheers - JJ
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Craig, well put.
Valid point also Verolex. One of my clients had an experiense similar to that with a Lexus. New it was used, but not until she took it in for repairs on a minor ding,that the next Lexus dealership advised her, it was in a prior accident, from another province, repaired originally with NON Lexus parts.... BUT, I would think these incidents are few and far between. It is for that reason I am not having a friend NOT pick me up a Rolex from his next trip to the Orient.
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I was also going to say the same thing. Why single out Rolex when that could happen to Cartier or Breitling customers??
Besides, every Rolex is registered to a certain AD. I have my receipt and papers documenting the fact tht I bought mine from Mayors here in Miami. If I were to find out that the Rolex I purchased was fake then I would have some sort or recourse........ I still dont understand why you single out Rolex when this can happen with any type of watch. Last edited by MiamiRolex; 3 February 2006 at 02:24 PM.. |
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Since when is the 'shine' of Rolex fading? Seems to me their prices keep going up and they sell every watch they make.
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Don't go there John!
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Have you ever noticed when you walk past a watch shop. it's always the Rolex display that gets the most attention. Strange, isn't it?
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Ok. Do you want to start discussing Rolex snobs? That could apply to most people here, one Kiwi in particular being a primo example.
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simple easy answer don't feed the troll.
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Now, about JJ's Rolex snobbery, a footnote I neglected to mention in his biography is how his job playing King Lear ended. Apparently, he and the director got into a spat about wardrobe, and JJ left in a huff:
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Ouch.....
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Is JJ the posterboy for the fake Rolex watch snob club?
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You're on a roll, James. Keep it up, pal and no one, but no one, can ever displace you from the No.1 position!!
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you are new to this, there were just as many fakes 20 years ago as today!
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about a AD with fake watches,would be 99.99999999999 impossible.
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Hi everyone! I'm new and I've been lurking and reading old threads for the past few days. I know this is an old post but I cant help but comment on this since I've been asking some of the same questions myself. In fact, I'd like to add that there's a Japanese watch brand that makes watches that are dead on model mirror stylings of some of the more popular Oyster Professional models. So why get a Rolex when you can get a much more reasonably priced and strikingly similar looking Japanese Brand version that won't really qualify as a "fake". Just a Rolex wannabee, maybe, but not a fake. So here's my dilemma and I hope some of the members can help me out: Should I get the S/S Submariner Date or the S/S GMTll in black bezel? |
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I don't know about the Japanese manufacturer of very close copies but to me it is the whole experience of having the real thing.
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hi verolex
i hope you have stayed around the forum thanks forthe thread as it is very useful i am buying an echte rolex because of the history and beauty of owning the real thing and my neighbour states that waiters can spot the real thing from 20paces. but the actual reason i will get an AD rolex is because i want to have a rolex tattoo and it would look silly without a real rolex on my wrist cheers robin Last edited by robin; 16 February 2006 at 10:21 PM.. |
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