I've been out doing one of my favorite chores...mowing.Twall you hit me low with the punctuated word.I will try to do better.I think you said that your Rolex is a fake,how can you tell?It sure looks genuine.anyways it's a really nice piece.And BK you do have a sweet machine...russ
Russ,
It's really HARD to tell - that's the whole point. The "biggies" are subtlties at best. The font on the datewheel, the size and font of the printing on the face, the length of the 'Coronet' (crown) spikes - it's tough to tell if you don't know. The laser-etched 'RolexRolexRolex' on the rehaut (the thing that looks like a spacer ring between the face and the glass) does not line up right (the the X in Rolex should line up with every hour marker on the right hand side of 6, the R should line up with every marker on the left), the Coronet is etched at 12 on the rehaut doesn't line up, and the "serial number" (they all have the same serial number :laughing
etched at 6. There is a laser-etched tiny little crown on the inside of the crystal (glass) at 6 per the genuine, but the gen should only be visable under UV light with a loupe (mine is seen with the naked eye under a regular lamp).
I have an old rep from the 90's that looks so fake, ANYONE could tell. It's in bad shape, so no pics of it. Sorry. It even had a quartz movement! (NO Rolexes are quartz - they are all mechanical.)
However, should you see the watch in my pic with the caseback off, the differences are obvious. The automatic Asian 21J in my watch looks NOTHING like a real Rolex movement.
So, in short, you really can't tell from the outside easily. Also the real Rolex movement has a 28000 'tick' per hour 'beat'. The 21J I have moves at a much choppier 198000 beat. You can actually see the second hand 'tick', whereas the real deal makes a smooth sweep, with almost no discrernable ticks in the second hand. However, if one bought replica with an Asian ETA clone, it will sweep like that, too. For a little more money.
Hey - you asked. :biggrin:
