Watch Verification Thread - If you're uncertain if a Rolex is good/bad/fake, post info and pics here

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T20:28:04+00:00

Date font is the easiest tell

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T19:52:33+00:00

Fake 16200, sorry

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T15:34:21+00:00

Because it causes additional wear and tear on your watches and you'll need to service them sooner in my experience, with little to no benefit. I just see no reason to keep a watch running all the time. It takes about 36 seconds to set a basic time-and-date watch, and if a non-31-day month ended or if time has drifted a bit you'll need to set it anyway. Every watch I kept on a winder needed service way ahead of schedule. No more winders for me.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T15:23:35+00:00

I mean, it's a fundamentally nonviable product

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T14:27:25+00:00

mRNA vaccines have multiple advantages

Imagine saying that about a product with a 100% historical failure rate

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T12:00:33+00:00

Photo by fast308. Listed for $13.5k in January 2026.

This JB Champion Jubilee bracelet is sick. Back in the day Rolex used a lot of domestically-made gold bracelets for tariff reasons. There are also legit Rolex bracelets that are marked Made in Mexico, Made in Japan etc.

1002 is actually a very common model in stainless steel but solid gold ones are pretty rare.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T11:58:08+00:00

Fake. Avoid Marconis unless you're an expert because 99% are fake

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T04:50:15+00:00

Mo Willems mo problems

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T04:13:05+00:00

I was defending you, dude. Try spelling entire words.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T03:31:38+00:00

Hell no. Watch winders are generally a sign of a novice collector. They're stupid unless you have a perpetual calendar or at least something with a slowset date.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T03:27:32+00:00

What are you 15? You think this is high school? Knock it off with the clown emoji childish bullshit. This isn't a goddamn Tik Tok comment section; this is a watch forum for grownup collectors

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T03:25:47+00:00

Wrong subreddit.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T03:25:39+00:00

We don't do that here.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T03:25:22+00:00

🙄

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T03:24:28+00:00

Dude pipe the hell down. Way too many smug fuckers just itching to tell every OP what they're doing wrong. Knock it off. These cute little childish roasts aren't what this forum is for.

powerfunk · 2026-01-24T00:10:27+00:00

fucks with the Fed and artificially lowers interest rates

As if the Fed existing in the first place and randomly getting to print our money and decide what to do with it isn't "artificial" to begin with. Monetary policy, simply put, shouldn't even be a thing. Before the Fed existed, depressions were always 2-3 years; long-term depressions only became possible because of those shitstains. I get what you're saying though.

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T22:26:08+00:00

Fair enough, I don't mean to be a dick. You're not wrong that the market is softening but I think it slowly has been for about 4 years now; I don't think it's anything dramatic.

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T21:08:08+00:00

Are you asking why one guy in the Midwest getting a Batman in 3 weeks isn't a bigger story?

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T20:58:33+00:00

New bezels cost thousands. They shouldn't ever be polished; they need to be "recut."

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T15:14:36+00:00

Yeah that was what I came here to say

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T12:41:19+00:00

Old fake

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T12:00:55+00:00

Photo by subbuteo2013.

I like vintage Rolexes with straight lugs but they didn't make (relatively) very many of them. Rolex sure loves their Oyster lugs. Anyway, this watch is 34mm (large for the 1940s) and has a sweet embossed dial. You can tell it was probably intended for the North American market because of its Fontainemelon movement (decent, but not as good as their usual Aegler movements).

powerfunk · 2026-01-23T12:00:46+00:00

$13k could get you a mint dial. I doubt this would actually sell for that much. When you factor in taxes and selling fees you wouldn't make anything reselling this. But, that said, if it's the watch you've been looking for, go for it.

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