My uncle bought this fake omega while in Turkey, it has since been loosing five minutes a day, three indexes have fallen off from the dial. I personally hate it lol but I’m also the guy who fixes stuff 😬😬

So without context, who would be convinced of its authenticity?

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    It looks like a watch. Knowing nothing about them besides that they show time and how to read it, there’s no indications of it being “fake” of something I don’t know exists

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    If the lens is scratched I’d bet it is fake. Something like that should have sapphire and it’s pretty difficult to even leave a mark in it

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      I’ve been wearing a Seamaster Good Planet since mid-2016 nearly daily. My primary work is typing things on a laptop. But my leisure life puts me in various situations and settings. I’m fairly “wide”, and a lot of entrances, doorways, hallways, and rooms are narrow for me, so I hit things, including with my watch. In 10 years I’ve managed to give the sapphire crystal some scratches, but really negligible; doesn’t look new, but absolutely far from scratched, I bet it looked this way after a month of me wearing the watch already. In comparison, the case is freakin’ destroyed: scratches, several of the bezel “teeth” bent, the metal bracelet is scratched nearly everywhere. So yeah, I believe that if the crystal is visibly scratched, and the case doesn’t have “Omega × Swatch” on it, it’s very likely fake, big time.

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        I wanted a simple watch that didn’t have a battery to replace so I got a pretty nifty looking mechanical ceramic thing and wore it to work in a postal facility for a handful of years. Armani AR1414, nothing too spendy, but I accidentally backhanded metal containers more times than I could count and I could only notice any sort of scuff if I angled it nearly sideways in bright light. I never thought sapphire would be as tough as people claimed until I bought one. I don’t even know what it’d take to leave a visible gouge in the crystal but I assume it’d have to be rubbed against concrete lol

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      My absolutely not-fake Rolex has an acrylic crystal and it scratches up like there’s no tomorrow. Not a guarantee in general, therefore (dunno about this specific model, though)

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    I used to be into watches, viewed and perused fakes and live in China where you can source them from. Basically, I think everyone who really knows watches knows that replicas exist that you really can’t distinguish from real ones unless you really know what you’re looking for and have it in your hand. Yours might suffer from general build quality handiness though and might not be first class replica. Like the other commenter said, the scratches give it away, for example. Even good replicas can include real sapphire glass, I think.

    Apart from that , 95% of folks would probably think it’s real, just due to not thinking about it.

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    I’m not an expert, but that sure does sound like a fake. As far as “fixing” it, I think the kindest repair would involve hitting it with a hammer until it was flat.