/fa/ - Fashion

>>12522043
>This guy's never held a fake rolex. They're almost identical in weight.

Which fake?

For god's sake if you're going to attempt to sound like you know something at least try. There are fake Rolexes with a fucking quartz ticking movement sold everywhere.

It's actually pretty cumbersome to find the 1:1 level replica watches and a hassle to buy them. Get to the right forums, find the right sellers, go through the proper channels, do WU payments.. and even then there are variances between replica watch factories to account for if you want to be absolutely anal.

That said;
> The differences are so fucking subtle that only rolex owners are going to out you.

You can go to Rolex forums and look at replica watch threads. They started getting "scary accurate" only a few years ago, likely due to better factories and manufacturing processes coming to the Chinese black markets. It's now on a level of detail in the latest versions that experts can't tell them apart at all from the outside. Remember that this is like a game toward perfection. Every detail the experts point out is fixed in later revisions. Popular watch models like the Rolex Subs are on v7, v8 and the differences are on the order of micrometer spacing in lettering or the embossing thickness (again a cunt hair thickness) in indices.

Even worse, there are high end watch makers like Panerai who are above Rolex in pricing who ran headfirst into trouble since they did not use a custom movement for some of their models. This meant the Chinks just bought and modified standard ETA movements and these watches are basically poison pills on the market now because it's impossible to tell what's genuine even by experts taking them apart.

Just for reference:
>>The cyclops is usually fucked up and doesn't magnify 2.5x

This kind of problem was worked out years ago. You still see lesser quality replicas sold today because most people don't care enough to spend the extra to get 1:1.

>>12418482
>What you are doing right now is claiming that Nomos is a bad company because it's featured on a website like this, like many other brands are, being offered cheaper

Routinely hiking the MSRP and having the real value land at a substantial cut of that price to create the illusion of exclusivity has been an industry plague for decades. It exists in all kinds of hobbies and the worst offenders are precisely those who want to create a false appearance of extra value.

Something with a theoretical price of X dollars that consistently goes for X-50% has a value of X-50%.

Your Rolex purchase will not depreciate this much, because while you will always lose money buying new and then trying to flip it, the real value is much closer to the purchase price, and it tends to stay consistent over time. Don't get me wrong, I think they're a tacky overpriced watch brand. But the economic point being made here is pretty simple. You just seem (economically?) invested in not getting it.

> The Lambda retails at $18,000 in rose gold and $20,000 in white gold.

So just like the original poster showed you, this watch routinely resells for about half the MSRP despite having actual precious metals in it to boot. That should be a huge red flag if you want to talk value.