Horological Meandering

As the owner of several genuine fine Swiss watches I am increasingly disturbed by unwanted Emails from [replica ] sites . How can they sell things like this on legitimate appearing websites without getting challenged by the likes of Rolex? Although I'm sure someone used to seeing real watches could tell a fake like this if they held it in their hand, a poor quality photo posted on a  for sale personal site may cause one to lose a substantial sum of money.

Jim

I edited your post to exclude the address of the replica site you mentionned per forum posting guidlines.  Also I didnot want to divert traffic there to potentially increase their business!  I hope you can understand.

I feel your frustrations and I too get spammed quite a bit from these fly by night sites.  The Swiss and Germans are "cracking" down on some replica manufactures.  There are raids (you can see a video of this on the Centre Culturel de la Haute Horologerie website  click here )  Sadly I think it will be a never ending battle.

These replica sites and businesses propagate because there are people who know and are willing to pay a paltry sum for an illegal product to satisfy their egos.  Those who think that they can buy a genuine current model Rolex for a few hundred dollars are not doing their homework...A fool and his money are easily parted!

What do you wear?

Best, Mike