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10-20-2006, 02:39 PM
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Re: Expensive replica watches what do we think?
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[ QUOTE ] i don't really understand buying watches, i just look at my cell phone to see what time it is [/ QUOTE ] it's like a piece of jewelry that also tells time, in my opinion anyway i'd never get a watch that wasn't "nice" so to speak. [/ QUOTE ] I agree. It's as much or more of a fashion accessory than it is just to tell you the time. 
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10-20-2006, 02:49 PM
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Re: Expensive replica watches what do we think?
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I'm pretty sure the reason that expensive replica sites exist is that thier watches use the same internal movement as thier real-life counterparts, unlike "bootleg" watches which only copy the original's appearance. Therefore, people who buy from here are more interested in the quality and engineering behind a certain type of watch but don't want to pay the ridiculous designer markup. I don't know this for a fact but I asked a friend who knows watches and this is what he told me. [/ QUOTE ] Most really high-end watch manufacturers (like Jaeger leCoultre pictured above) produce the movements in-house, so they're not available for the replica manufacturers. Most replica movements are made dirt cheap in China. A good generic swiss movement cost more than $200 for the movement alone. I found a Valjoux 7750 movement (which is used in many 'mid-level' watches like Tag-Heuers) on eBay for sale for $285. I like the mechanical aspects of a good watch and I didn't mind spending 2k+ on the most expensive of my watches.
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#13
10-20-2006, 03:14 PM
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Re: Expensive replica watches what do we think?
I found a site called ReplicaSearch.com which offers advice to those looking at buying a replica, explains the difference between Japanese, Swiss and Chinese movements in replicas and has reviews of a few sites.
I would guess that the reviews of the sites are not false because they are pretty uniformly bad reviews from pissed off customers.
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#14
10-20-2006, 03:23 PM
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i don't really understand buying watches, i just look at my cell phone to see what time it is [/ QUOTE ] I was formerly of the same opinion but, particularly at work, it's useful to be able to discreetly check the time.
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10-20-2006, 03:23 PM
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Re: Expensive replica watches what do we think?
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[ QUOTE ] I'm pretty sure the reason that expensive replica sites exist is that thier watches use the same internal movement as thier real-life counterparts, unlike "bootleg" watches which only copy the original's appearance. Therefore, people who buy from here are more interested in the quality and engineering behind a certain type of watch but don't want to pay the ridiculous designer markup. I don't know this for a fact but I asked a friend who knows watches and this is what he told me. [/ QUOTE ] Most really high-end watch manufacturers (like Jaeger leCoultre pictured above) produce the movements in-house, so they're not available for the replica manufacturers. Most replica movements are made dirt cheap in China. A good generic swiss movement cost more than $200 for the movement alone. I found a Valjoux 7750 movement (which is used in many 'mid-level' watches like Tag-Heuers) on eBay for sale for $285. I like the mechanical aspects of a good watch and I didn't mind spending 2k+ on the most expensive of my watches. [/ QUOTE ] Couldn't somebody just reverse engineer basically any watch in order to mimick the movements?
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#16
10-20-2006, 03:40 PM
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Re: Expensive replica watches what do we think?
I have a sweet tag rip off that I got in Thailand. I've had it for over a year and it still works pretty well. I've compared it to the original and it looks almost identical. Great deal.
But, there is a lot of crap out there, that's for sure.
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10-20-2006, 05:37 PM
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This site www.watch-replica.net offers quality (looking) replica watches of popular expensive brands for like $200. [/ QUOTE ] Does anyone sell replicas of the $200 replicas? [censored] spending that much money on something that's basically cosmetic, let alone what the originals cost.
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10-20-2006, 06:07 PM
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Re: Expensive replica watches what do we think?
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[ QUOTE ] This site www.watch-replica.net offers quality (looking) replica watches of popular expensive brands for like $200. [/ QUOTE ] Does anyone sell replicas of the $200 replicas? [censored] spending that much money on something that's basically cosmetic, let alone what the originals cost. [/ QUOTE ] You could wear burlap sacks for clothes too, wasting money at JC Penny for something basically cosmetic IS dumb...
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10-20-2006, 06:25 PM
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This site www.watch-replica.net offers quality (looking) replica watches of popular expensive brands for like $200. [/ QUOTE ] $40-50 in Hong Kong or Thailand. Plane ticket only $650......
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10-20-2006, 06:48 PM
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Couldn't somebody just reverse engineer basically any watch in order to mimick the movements? [/ QUOTE ] the internals aren't expensive because of the brand name, they're expensive because they're difficult to produce and require a high degree of technical ability to assemble. there aren't many knock off $2000 bmws on the streets.
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