Re: Why serious collectors should own fakes

J. David Anderson wrote:

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> People are lumping together all manner of fakes and treating them as
> having the same effect. They don't. The majority of fakes fall into the
> first category. I am quite sure that Rolex would be far more concerned
> about the second category than the first. The first category could not
> by any manner of imaginative manipulation of data, be considered a lost
> sale by Rolex. The second, costing between $500 and $1000 would very
> likely mean the loss of a quality watch sale, although not necessarily
> to Rolex.
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I hate to tell you, those $500 to $1000 "swiss-made replicas" are
a scam. As far as I can tell, the legitimate value of a fake watches
tops out around $60, if they even have a legitimate value.

- Mooron

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