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The bad fakes don't scare me...
In Response To: Compared to a real one.... ()

...but the good ones do.
Somewhere within the last month or so (here, the Omega forum, wathcuseek), someone posted a pic of a $228 Chinese made Rolex Daytona.
At least in pics, the thing looked great, and it had a convincing mechanical movement and everything.
Chuck Maddox pointed out that the hour register was syched to the hour hand or something, which should tell the world it's a fake.
But we're not all as observant as Chuck.
And he added that it wouldn't be any harder for them to knock off a different ETA movement which would get rid of that particular giveaway.

A very pretty Carrera, though, isn't it?

best
Allen

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