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A forum for identifying and avoiding wholly or partially non-authentic wristwatches --
including counterfeit, replica, Frankenwatches and other fake or bastardized pieces.
Our objective here is to DISCOURAGE the sales and purchase of counterfeit
wristwatch and jewelry products. It is also for helping people identify
watches that are mostly authentic, but have been: altered for personal customization,
repaired with inappropriate parts or modified to be passed off as more valuable pieces.
Including a photo of the piece you are talking about ALWAYS helps! You can learn how to post a photo here: How To Include Photos In Your Postings. 'For sale' postings, commercial solicitation and ads are not allowed. Links to Internet auctions are acceptable only if their purpose is to question the authenticity of a product or provide new clues for identifying counterfeit products. Links that appear to be 'shills' promoting the sale of counterfeit products will be deleted. Links to websites of sellers of counterfeit items are not permitted -- we know they are out there and do not need to be encouraging them by sending traffic to their sites. Privacy, additional policies and administrivia are covered in the Terms of Use.
: seamaster fake. I may be wrong, but I think
: ive found one on old reliable ( ebay ).
: Reason?? Quote "And Omega does not put the
: word 'QUARTZ' on the dial of any current or
: recent models. ".
Since that watch is clearly stated as being from the 1980s, is is clearly NOT a "current or recent model." Applying such information clearly outside its stated context is sloppy thinking and will cause you to reach such severely incorrect conclusions.
This is not something that you can immediately be an expert simply for knowing one or two factoids.
Also, keep in mind that many of the signs to look for on fakes are model or time-period specific -- especially when you try to apply them to the thousands of different models a company has made over many decades. How they did something in the 1990s may well be the opposite of how they did it in the 1980s or any other decade. Similarly, how OMEGA labels some models differs from how they label others.
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