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Originally Posted by Arizona_928
There's whole cities in China built to produce knock off watches. Sole industry.
These watches are so good, it often comes down to elemental analysis for trace metals in the alloys.
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I follow this stuff pretty closely on a few SM groups. You'd be amazed by how much they get right and then blow it all by getting something so wrong that's really so simple to get right. Just the font on the date wheel can give it away and you don't even need a loupe to catch that. And it's really hard to get the polish/finish right on the bracelet components. Some of the real high end stuff like Patek is so perfectly QC'ed from the factory, that anything less than absolute perfection is a dead giveaway.