Scoob99

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Any ideas guys!!!!!!!!

AndiThompson

It goes backwards?

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

It says Tug instead of Tag ?

robby

Has a £1.99 price label on

Dapster

There is no Mikey on the front....

Ok here goes

- It's heavy
- Strap and case are of the same material (most fakes have a cheapo strap)
- Tag logo on the securing clasp (rather than the main one)
- Tag logo on the end of the crown
- Serial number on the case
- Rotating bezel has a nice positive "click" action
- Crown has a thred to lock it against the case

If the fake has all of these then I'd be impressed. Also, take it to Watches of Switzerland for a new battery and if they crush it without returning it to you it's a fake....

Chip

It's heavy.............Mine is

Strap and case are of the same material (most fakes have a cheapo strap)......................Mine are


-Tag logo on the securing clasp (rather than the main one)......Yep thats right

Tag logo on the end of the crown..........Yep

Serial number on the case.................Yep

Rotating bezel has a nice positive "click" action.........Yep

Crown has a thred to lock it against the case............Yep

And all for £10 from a little boy in Bali. Wat a bargain I had there then. It must be real.

Chip.

TopBanana

... if you bought it in Tenerife?

dba

its a fake if it doesnt stop every 2 years and require a million pounds for sending back to Switzerland for a "service" and pressure reseal ie someone dunks it in a sink

dr_ming

It works for more than a year without needing repair

Butkus

I have a genuine one and it has the logo on the main clasp not on the securing clasp.

Watch was bought from Mappin and Webb nine years ago.

Lois

Hi at work yesterday I was shown a fake ladies tag watch ...no one knew until it was sent to tag for a repair! but the clock face was a light blue not dark,also they don't make wind up ones or is it the other way round?well not in this range anyways the womans husband was devestated and had to go buy a replacement without telling wife..and just had to lie about mechanism and watch face ..lol ..he got it in Dubai ...you would've thought he would realise it wasn't genuine...in total it ended up costing him about £900 ...fool !!

Freak

I have some fakes from bangkok here, tag and rolex- they are very very very good and have all of the above mentioned things....

You would be hard pushed to tell them from a real one...

But i rarely wear them- i prefer the real mccoy.

Buzzer

12 replies and not one from Yoza

Katana

It has a scratchproof glass (chrystal). Having destroyed two I should know this very well.

Boro

iTrader: (1)

Just out of interest, what are the serial numbers on the fake ones? From memory, most of them were the same.

yoza

Swim in it.

FASTER MIKE!!

my tag f1 does'nt have scratch proof glass but then it was a cheapie @£250 6 years ago only had 2 batterys at £25 a go

mike

scoob_babe

mine doesn't have a bezel at all but its a genuine!

davegtt

aiii my suggestions was scratch proof, does it have the tag logo engraved on the back saying since 1860, should also have some sort of serial number on the back of the watch, dont quote me for all models but Ive just took mine off and had a look over it.

guys, I bought mine from duty free in amsterdam 3 years ago onow for my 21st (well the misses refunded the credit card when I got home ) and I remember reading the booklet (cant be ar$ed anymore) and Im sure it says it should be serviced every year??? Ive neva done mine, is it true? any1 had theirs done, also the twisty thing that turns with the 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and the marker at the top used to only turn 1 direction and after 3 years of battering its turning both directions now has done for about a year actually.

Magic Boot

I bought an ROLEX for £12 from a little place in Thailand last year. My fiancee works in a jewellers and she was amazed at the quality and acuracy of the fake. Mine is an OYSTER PERPETUAL DATEJUST Automatic and has all of those points mentioned above + I never take it off and that includes bath, shower, swimming etc.
It has been knocked about and had paint splatter on it through DIY but the glass remains as new after a rince under the tap.
Only critisism is that it gains approx. 3mins. per month but i'm told the real automatic Rolexs' are prone to gallop also. When choosing this watch, my other half reckoned that 95% of the fakes were not good replicas, TAG being the cheapest available and poorest quality.

I could have a real Rolex, Breitling etc. at trade price but WHY???? My £12 Rolex, I love it long time!!

Boss Hogg

mine also has a serial number on one of the lugs on the underside of the braclelet where it attatches to the underside of the bezel - three digits/two digits.

Every fake tag I've ever seen has looked fake compared to mine - so perhap the easiest way is to find a genuine one that's the same series as the one under question and compare the two.

pbee

I agree I have a number of fake watches and some real ones. It depends where you buy them and how much you pay.

All the fake tag's ive seen are rubbish, as mentioned here differing metals, wrong colours ect ect. but for the £5 -20 asking price what do you expect.

If you go a little higher say £50 - £100 for a fake breitling ect you get a very good watch, A friend bought a few back a couple of months ago, he took one to watches of switzerland, for a test to ask for a manual as he had lost it, they checked it over and sent off for a manual for him as they thought it was genuine.

Now he has learnt that a lot of so called european watches are actually assembled in the far east, so he thinks a lot of the components are stolen from the factories, assembled and sold off as fakes.

As i have a inherited rolex and bought a real tag, a longines and some various fakes, i can honestly say its not whether its a fake or how much you paid, having a real time piece that you have handed over a wedge for so that you can keep it for life and also pass down to your children is a good feeling. you buy a fake and bin it in a few years time.

Markus

<looks at TAG on his wrist>
Have to agree with Dapster on these points, as mine has all these things, even the bezel 'click' is still great after 8 years of (mis)use

[Edited by Markus - 11/12/2003 7:26:51 PM]