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Old 11th Dec 2011, 19:51
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peterh337
 
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There is a fantastic choice of fake watches at Corfu. All the names.

Most of them are not fully functional though. The small dials are mostly just printed on. But for a proper con-job you also need the uniform, surely?

I know a man who lives in Switzerland (so he must know everything about watches) and he tells me that most of the fancy watches (IWC, etc) use common movements. Not exactly Chinese ones, buy fairly normal Swiss made ones, with small modifications.

He also explained that it is really hard to get a mechanical watch to be accurate, because one has to make separate adjustments in different orientations, and each one needs to be verified for about a day.

I have gone for the tritium-illuminated watches lately because they glow nicely. I had this one for a while, then went to this one to get a date I could read The Seiko "pilot watch" was unreadable at night, a few hours after dark.
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