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Chinese factories are making fake 1950s Constellation Calendars

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Obviously not assembled (missing the hands and movement), but you can buy them assembled with a Swiss or Chinese ETA.

I don't have any fake watches and would never buy a fake watch, but I have to give credit to the factory, these do look good!
 
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They does not look that good to me, also that configuration never existed afaik
 
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Brace yourselves for the influx of 'Why does my watch have four spring bars?' threads

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There are going to be a lot of disappointed novice collectors if these fakes start showing up on eBay and elsewhere. I'd like to see what they look like with the hands.
 
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Obviously not assembled (missing the hands and movement), but you can buy them assembled with a Swiss or Chinese ETA.

I don't have any fake watches and would never buy a fake watch, but I have to give credit to the factory, these do look good!

On first sight these look really good - out of curiosity what is the price range of these?
I assume they are not solid gold.
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gbesq
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I can't really tell from this one photograph, but are any or all of these -- particularly the middle watch -- dog leg cases? If so, they appear quite soft to me, but it may just be the photo.
 
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There are going to be a lot of disappointed novice collectors if these fakes start showing up on eBay and elsewhere. I'd like to see what they look like with the hands.

This is all I could find:

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On first sight these look really good - out of curiosity what is the price range of these?
I assume they are not solid gold.

A little over USD $100
 
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I can't really tell from this one photograph, but are any or all of these -- particularly the middle watch -- dog leg cases? If so, they appear quite soft to me, but it may just be the photo.

they are all purporting to be doglegs.
They appear to be very poor castings and are very much in line with the usual fake dogleg cases.
The dials look particularly poorly made too.

They are indeed an aberration.
 
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This is all I could find:

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This dial is as fake as the OP watches ( and possibly the case too)
 
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Perrier Perrier
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Obviously not assembled (missing the hands and movement), but you can buy them assembled with a Swiss or Chinese ETA.
!

Given the position of the date window you would have a hard job fitting a correct Omega movt inside the watch.
 
gbesq
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With all the defects, I have absolutely no doubt that some would be novice buyers are going to fall for these.
 
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With all the defects, I have absolutely no doubt that some would be novice buyers are going to fall for these.

Totally agree.
And unfortunately someone will put them together to make a watch to catch the uninitiated.

For this reason, Whilst they make me very angry, I’m glad @Perrier posted them, so that they can be called out for the utter pieces of shit they are.
 
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This would be the sought-after "Where the hell's the date window?" Calendar model...

Haha! Well spotted.
 
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Good to know what's out there. The dateless calendar model cracked me up. Would be even better if it said Carendar.
 
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Cases look gold plated. Doubt they would put in the expense of doing gold filled and don't think this style was ever gold capped
 
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