Watch Dandy

Rolex fakes have existed for a very long time. But where it used to be pretty easy to spot an impostor – from the dull lustre of the cheap materials, to laughable aesthetic inaccuracies, to the sound of the rotor rattling from across the boardroom table like a bag of Skittles – it is now increasingly difficult. It’s something Watchfinder has demonstrated in this extraordinary comparison video. As I’m sure almost all of you will know, the meteoric rise in the popularity of steel Professional models like the Submariner, GMT-Master II and Daytona has meant that enthusiasts are paying as much as four times more than retail to get their hands on one. Such is the demand for these products. This means that now, more than ever, these illegitimate watches are really, really big business. And because only the uppermost echelon of AD cohorts can buy the real deal, fake Rolex watches are now also a mighty economy in their own right. As time goes on, the money invested into making them much higher quality is justified by the exorbitant prices, running now to the thousands, not hundreds of dollars people are prepared to pay for fakes. So, with this…

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It’s a story we’ve been writing in our weekly editorial meeting for months and months: the idea that lug to lug measurement is a more important fit-telling metric than any other. In layman’s terms, that’s the distance between the outer tip of two opposing lugs on either side of the case. So much discussion. So many feelings. So finally, after whinging and whinging about it, we identified that Zach was the most passionate on the subject, and he got the gig – a story was briefed to illustrate extreme examples of why lug to lug matters to the extent that other metrics we rely on, such as case diameter, can border on redundant in comparison. What Zach filed shortly after was unpublishable. It was more than 2000 words and veered wildly from the topic to another sibling topic, which is big watches that wear small. It was actually great, to be honest. So thorough and so in the pocket – Zach has a well and truly sub 7-inch wrist, so it was clearly something he’d thought a lot about, with many, many real-life examples to bring the subject to life. To cut a long story about a slender wrist short,…

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It’s a story we’ve been writing in our weekly editorial meeting for months and months: the idea that lug to lug measurement is a more important fit-telling metric than any other. In layman’s terms, that’s the distance between the outer tip of two opposing lugs on either side of the case. So much discussion. So many feelings. So finally, after whinging and whinging about it, we identified that Zach was the most passionate on the subject, and he got the gig – a story was briefed to illustrate extreme examples of why lug to lug matters to the extent that other metrics we rely on, such as case diameter, can border on redundant in comparison. What Zach filed shortly after was unpublishable. It was more than 2000 words and veered wildly from the topic to another sibling topic, which is big watches that wear small. It was actually great, to be honest. So thorough and so in the pocket – Zach has a well and truly sub 7-inch wrist, so it was clearly something he’d thought a lot about, with many, many real-life examples to bring the subject to life. To cut a long story about a slender wrist short,…

The post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: You need to know your ideal lug to lug size, or you’re doing watches wrong appeared first on Time and Tide Watches.