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Old 11-27-2012, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by machz990 View Post
My Rolex Submariner that I bought from Debbie 15 years ago for $300 or so has worked perfectly and still looks like new. It's the same watch Jammy sells. I've bought watches at the Gold Souk, Hong Kong and the 580 market in Shanghai. None of them held a candle to the watches from Jammy or Debbie. I have purchased at least 10 watches from them and all of them work perfectly. Jammys high quality watches have high end swiss movements and sapphire crystals plus most of them are waterproof. My Rolex Submariner is exactly like the real one because a friend of mine has a real one and I've studied the two side by side. The watches in Hong Kong and the 580 market are junk. They are the copy watches the street hustlers use on tourists. The crystal is made of cheap glass that scratches if you look at it wrong. They are similar copies but no where near exact and are easily identified as copies by anyone with any knowledge of watches. The rolex crown on the cheap ones is glued on the stem like a cover whereas a good copy will have a one-piece cast solid stem. The screws on the band of my submariner are all exactly the same. The movement or sweep of the second hand is also a good identifier. The really cheap copies use a quartz movement so the second hand sweep moves in a click click movement each second. The so-so copies haav a continuous sweeping movement but it's not as smooth as a good copy which moves very smoothly.
You get what you pay for. I'm very happy with the watches I've purchased and like I said they all are working today. I have two with gold plating and one with rose gold and they still look great with no quality issues. I've changed a couple of batteries over the years but that is to be expected. Jammy's prices have gone up recently because of the exchange rate for our worthless dollar.
My Rolex GMT from 580 PVG is everything that you described about ones from Debbie, perhaps I got lucky. Still have looks great and works nicely after several years of abuse.

However, I have long since worn it. Whether it's from this Debbie or a street vendor in China, they're all still fakes and in retrospect, I feel like a boob for buying it. I don't buy the comparison to a repliCobra as it is still not the real deal.

Buying a fake anything is not unlike those stupid fake vents sold at Auto Zone to put on the side of a Buick Park Avenue to make it look "sporty"

Anyway, to each their own, but if I see myself as a boob for buying a fake watch, then what does that make you?
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