If a gold store is willing to buy it for weight in gold, I would say take the offer and be happy it is actual gold. As tyrantlizardrex said, there's a lot of gold colored materials and it's highly suspect a fake watch would use an actual gold filled case.The watch itself is fake so there's no real significant value there.
Disagree. Plenty of high end Patek fakes of use gold filled cases.
When your looking for suckers on a 100k plus watch for 2-5 grand or more you can invest in decent materials.
If you can distract someone with the solid gold case... maybe they won’t look too closely at the rest of the watch... 😉
I've also seen evidence of a solid gold fake Patek. 😀
I'm not sayin but I'm just sayin counterfeiters are known to troll hobby forums and challenge collectors.
It's their way of researching and then making corrections to the more obvious tells of a fake.
I've heard this theory before also, but I've never seen any evidence that it's anything real. I've never understood why fakers would need to do this, when they can simply compare their design to the real thing (plenty of photos available on-line) to determine what the "tells" are. Seems to be an internet myth IMO...
maybe they call it market research. they have the most tech savy guy in the fake factory go on the forums and compare.
Compare what? It doesn't make sense when there are photos of the real watches on the web site of the company you are copying that show what the genuine watch looks like. This is one of those theories that "seems to make sense" until you actually give it some thought...
With Patek's vetting process, im sure its not easy for the fakers to actually get their hands on a real one to do the fine work on scrutinizing.
www.patek.com
Want to see fine details - it's all on their web site...just took this screen grab:
Unless you think the fakers are living in the 1970's, there's a lot easier ways to see the details than getting access to the physical watch, or running your fake by watch enthusiasts (this would be a trial and error method that doesn't make much sense to me). On their site you can even see 360 degree viewing so the watch can be seen all the way around. They could also just ask Patek for a catalogue...brands are happy to give them away for free.
