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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.
: I saw a Duboule watch on ebay for sale for bout
: $250 but its retail value is $3300 and its
: brand new. That just sounds fishy, also the
: same seller has Rosseau and Louis Bolle
: watches that look identical but just
: different name's. Let me know if you think
: its a fake
The watch is genuine: unfortunately it is worth a great deal less than $3,300. There has been a huge upsurge in the manufacturing of cases, dials, etc to suit very basic movements; you have quoted two names as examples.
Unfortunately, there has been the same amount of manufacturing of histories for the companies. Duboule, I should imagine has no history or tradition to it but, I suspect, was founded about 2 or 3 years ago at the most by the simple process of finding the name of a long-dead watchmaker and using that.
Personally, I would not want to pay any more than about $100 for one of the watches.
On eBay, it is always worth looking who is bidding - new people tend to bid furiously on things they see as desirable, this is not wise as merely drives a price up. Also, it is probable that they know little about watches.
A good test of the reputation of a watch is the secondhand price - try and find a secondhand Duboule, Rosseau or Louis Bolle and see what it goes for.
Cheers,
Gary
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