Need help with this Rolex

larryganz

The quality of these pictures show how good the fakes are getting - they fool lots of experts until they get hands on and also a closer look with a 10x loupe.

To everyone else - Not all fakes are as obvious as the one the OP posted, but he was concerned enough to write his original post instead of buying, so people should give him credit where credit is due.

JwRosenthal

Me three- sold all my toys a few years ago but kept the e34 M5.

mjb

The scary thing (as noted) is that some of these fakes are so good - and if properly marketed with a good fake box and a reasonable price (i.e. not "too good to be true") then you could be taken. Heck, you could take them to a Rolex AD and they probably wouldn't be able to tell either.

The only way to know for sure any more is to send it to Rolex for a service estimate. They'll charge you nothing for the estimate, but will be quick to let you know if it's not real. Of course, they may not give it back... (I'm not sure on the law about that, Internet lore aside).

TRF (The Rolex Forum) is an excellent resource and education forum. www. rolexforums.com

BTW @bimmernerd, I too am a BMW fan. Well... it's kind of a love/hate thing, honestly.

JwRosenthal

Mine actually was delivered to Chicago originally- one of only 224 delivered to the US in ‘93. Luckily it was a garage kept and these things suck on ice or snow so the original owner probably had a Land Rover as his second.
I live in MD so our winters are not nearly as bad, but it goes on the battery tender at the sign of first snow and doesn’t come out until we have had at least 2-3 hard rains after the season to get all the salt gone.

mjb

Hard to go wrong with an M5. Any generation. OK, maybe not the E60. LOL

My latest purchase, 2 months ago, 540i, has been in the shop all week and I won't see it until next week, if then. Discouraged.

JwRosenthal

Here’s a couple good videos on how to spot Rolex fakes- it’s all in the details.

Cozmopak

Man, those are scary videos. Although the differences under magnification are fairly obvious. Those differences though are a lot easier to mask on photos posted to internet forums.