Reproduction DON bezel

oddboy

Hi,
Nothing wrong wifh after market if you know what you're buying.

JLCman

Sad to see that the wave of close to perfect fakes seems to enter the Omega world now With DON bezels these guys can make an unbelievable profit at low cost and kill the originals market. On the other hand: used DON bezels with believable patina should survive this fake wave - I hope...

I iqlouq

Hi Here,

I'm a long time reader of this forum and not a poster, I've had a couple of deals buying here and I'm confident in saying it all went well everytime.
I am Louka Krief from HORARE and I have to say i'm pretty disgusted by OP's lack of fairness. Now that everyone has my name it is extremely easy to check that I'm not the owner of the ebay account which sells these fake bezels.
I am a victim of this person even though I didn't buy the bezel on ebay.

As it is easy to see for everyone we at HORARE are not in the business of selling spare parts, where can you see a single spare being sold by us in the past ?
That's why when we got this spare in a more global deal between dealers we decided to sell it via Chronotrader as there's no space on our website for spares.
We have always been extremely legit when it comes to watches, where can you see a comment on the internet saying that we sell fake stuff ? We've had this website for about 2 years and a half now and sold nearly a thousand watches.

Sometimes when you trust someone and the reproduction is that good (even here it raises questions) you don't spend half an hour checking a spare, especially (and that's an interesting lesson) when what you're looking for is the DON (which captures your attention obviously).

So we've decided to remove this bezel from listings, but @djmusicman you have to be fair and see the whole picture, it's way too easy going on a forum and posting comments without distinction.

I'm happy to help any fair and forward thinking person to prevent fakes by posting as many pictures as they might need for common knowledge and prevention of fakes.

Foo2rama

So ghost bezels FTW?

gdupree

I'm confused... how did the OP lack fairness, and why are you disgusted by it? Didn't he just help you discover that a very highly priced bezel was a fake, and shouldn't you be very happy that you didn't sell it to an unsuspecting customer? Or did I miss something?

Where/who did you get the bezel from?

I iqlouq

Simply because accusing someone on the internet leaves permanent marks, it takes years and months of effort to build a good reputation and one post can cause great damage to it.
If we had been selling fakes knowingly than I think it is completely fair from OP to raise a red flag, in this particular case we made an honest mistake, that's why I think this lacks fairness.
But we have discussed this matter privately with OP and I think he understood this point of view since he edited his post with our name.
And of course I thanked him for pointing it out.

I iqlouq

I will not disclose where I got this from because I know the dealer who sold it to me has also probably been fooled by this bezel and is not the kind of person to sell and even less create fakes.
Internet is not a great denounciating tool in my opinion, and unless I'm 100% sure of who is the forger I will not jeopardize serious people's reputation.

gdupree

I never saw the OP accuse anyone of anything. He just asked us if it was genuine or not.

I iqlouq

"I think it's fair to name the seller here, Louka Krief from "Horare" in Paris. Selling fake inserts is one thing but to pass them off as the real thing and ask 4,000€ is something else. 🤬"

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