Anyone ever buy a replica Rolex?

[shortylickens]

Once long ago, I bought a 20 dollar Rolex.
It was surprisingly good.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Once long ago, I bought a 20 dollar Rolex.
It was surprisingly good.

More surprising is you had $20.

 

[shortylickens]

More surprising is you had $20.

This was 1999.

 

[rommelrommel]

There are two different ways you can go, full blown fake rolex which is going to be a chinese (or similar) knockoff with a cheap quartz movement and poor construction, or a replica, which may cost several hundred but may use a high quality automatic movement, high quality materials, but likely won't be branded "Rolex" - will just look identical.

I would never think about buying a fake, they're cheap and would be easy to tell apart, but I've often thought about getting replicas of other high end watches (eg Panerai) which you can usually find in the $200-400 range and are nearly identical other than the branding and the movement.

Examples of such a panerai clone?

 

[FelixDeCat]

They are trash and tend to fall apart quickly and / or tarnish because of cheap metals. If you dont mind spending $100+ on something that wont last go right ahead.

I like to buy Seikos. I've a couple endure 20+ years of daily use. Granted, I have a few hundred maintaining them.

 

[DigDog]

Considering you can buy 60 fake rolex for the price of 1, i think its a good deal.

 

[MtnMan]

A Timex for $29 does the same damn thing, except justify your need to impress people that don't give a damn about you in the first place.

 

[Captante]

yup, i bought it and i am really satisfied

So .... how does a spam-bot have a wrist actually??

A Timex for $29 does the same damn thing, except justify your need to impress people that don't give a damn about you in the first place.

Pretty sure nobody with a pulse actually bought anything lol.