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There's a massive rep scene (not just Panerai - their style is easy to fake, but the rep makers are so skilled now that they can handle anything). The differences between the real deal and the reps is small and getting smaller - they even copy movement details (easier for ETA variants like early Panerai / IWC etc) so you've properly got to get the loupe out to tell them apart. There's a rep forum that does these comparisons with the view that the producer uses the info to produce a better fake. Watchfinder did this macro video on a fake submariner 7 years ago, and they've long got better since.... Makes buying secondhand a real worry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ZTqC2Yxxs
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I've got 4 fake Rolexes and used to go to the rwg forum a lot. It seems impossible to log in now. Not sure what's going on. The supply of good fakes from the better so-called factories dried up for a while after a wave of arrests and jail sentences. Maybe it's recovered? Without access to rwg I have no idea.
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Anyone else's inner ww perk up when he said the fake was 4g lighter?
nick_h.
hugo7
Panerais must be so easy to fake. Has anyone compared a fake one with a real one? (I mean a good fake, $400 or so.)