Sunday, September 04, 2005

IS IT FAKE OR IS IT REAL?




I stared at this picture for over an hour, while trying to find out just one thing; was this a man's or a woman's watch? The auction said it was a small man's Rolex, but the box it came in, also pictured on the auction was pink. Yet the owner had insisted the watch was a small man's watch.

I looked for a picture of a Rolex on the web that matched this one. I found many that were marked with the words, "Oyster Perpetual Date Just" under the crown symbol on the face, but none that were exactly like this watch.

I came close. I found a Rolex that had the exact same face, but had a bezel encrusted with diamonds. That one was a woman's watch.

I also looked for the watch box pictured. I never found any Rolex box like the pink hatbox shaped one pictured, but I did find enough different Rolex watch boxes that it was certainly possible that this pink box was a Rolex box. I finally came to the conclusion that the watch was probably a woman's watch, but as the watch by this time already had bids, it did not much matter whether or not it was a man's or woman's watch.

Have you stared at this watch face long enough to find what the auction lister, the buyer and I overlooked? I even visited a web site devoted to teaching you how to spot Rolex fakes, and I still did not get it.

Give up? Or are you a better observer than all those others and I?

Just how do you spell officially?

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