My uncle bought this fake omega while in Turkey, it has since been loosing five minutes a day, three indexes have fallen off from the dial. I personally hate it lol but I’m also the guy who fixes stuff 😬😬

So without context, who would be convinced of its authenticity?

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    1 month ago

    If the lens is scratched I’d bet it is fake. Something like that should have sapphire and it’s pretty difficult to even leave a mark in it

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      I’ve been wearing a Seamaster Good Planet since mid-2016 nearly daily. My primary work is typing things on a laptop. But my leisure life puts me in various situations and settings. I’m fairly “wide”, and a lot of entrances, doorways, hallways, and rooms are narrow for me, so I hit things, including with my watch. In 10 years I’ve managed to give the sapphire crystal some scratches, but really negligible; doesn’t look new, but absolutely far from scratched, I bet it looked this way after a month of me wearing the watch already. In comparison, the case is freakin’ destroyed: scratches, several of the bezel “teeth” bent, the metal bracelet is scratched nearly everywhere. So yeah, I believe that if the crystal is visibly scratched, and the case doesn’t have “Omega × Swatch” on it, it’s very likely fake, big time.

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        I wanted a simple watch that didn’t have a battery to replace so I got a pretty nifty looking mechanical ceramic thing and wore it to work in a postal facility for a handful of years. Armani AR1414, nothing too spendy, but I accidentally backhanded metal containers more times than I could count and I could only notice any sort of scuff if I angled it nearly sideways in bright light. I never thought sapphire would be as tough as people claimed until I bought one. I don’t even know what it’d take to leave a visible gouge in the crystal but I assume it’d have to be rubbed against concrete lol

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      29 days ago

      My absolutely not-fake Rolex has an acrylic crystal and it scratches up like there’s no tomorrow. Not a guarantee in general, therefore (dunno about this specific model, though)