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What's the story with fakes sent to ADs/HO for repairs? They just sent back? They're confiscated and burned out back in a pile with all the other fakes? So you then recieve a letter saying you've lost a watch?
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Different things happen to the fake watches. The owner is informed. Sometimes the dial is destroyed and the watch returned. Sometimes it isn’t returned. In one case where a widow sent in her husband’s old watch, she was returned the fake as delivered to them, since it was a special circumstance.
I was surprised that they were legally allowed to not return / destroy someone else’s property.
rodabod
I thought those Grand Seikos which people like here were Rolex homages? Nobody seemed to complain about that.
I couldn’t care if people wear fakes. Most fakes are copies of watches which are common as muck, so not particularly interesting anyway.
I may have mentioned this before, but I know someone who works for Rolex, at their UK service centre. He told me about the Tudor fakes which were being sent in for servicing (cringe). Apparently they were very, very similar. Throw in one that uses an ETA movement and your up shit creek.