The Fate of a Fake Rolex

I had a nice visit from Archer this past weekend.

We rarely talk watches because I know very little about them and well, he is Archer.

This time he did humour me and we did a bit of watch talk. Along the way I produced a container full of cases, backs and parts. One case had a bezel and looked like a Submariner.

Al was not impressed. Five feet away he knew it wasn’t real. I put that crap away but remembered a post by PDXLeaf.

That post was in response to my destruction via 9 mm pistol of a fake Rolex in 2025. (Disclaimer to crooks. Wife does not like guns. You will not find any in the house).

Here is that miserable fake.



I became a firearms instructor in 1993 and still help out good people in need of coaching.

In March of 2025 I was at a shooting range and with a Glock 17 Gen 5 (the last pistol that I carried on duty) I fired at that fake Rolex.

Will add the link to that in a bit.

The result.



Inspired by PDXLeaf’s post (will link that too) I used the dial and crown and inserted it in that Subbie looking case.

I reached into a bag of casebacks and the first one I tried fit.

I cut the already bullet-damaged date wheel and glued it in place… I used 9 as the date. (9 mm… get it?).

I jammed a piece of leather behind the dial to keep everything tight. That and a bit of tape.

More photos.



Cool!

Now, what should I call it?

I figured you’d post on the animal thread. But here goes.

What “calibre” was it? The movement, I mean.

Cheap plastic mostly with a few metal parts. Oh I see what you did there!

You must have thought I was serious when I asked what calibre it was.

Very cool thread! I like guns and watches.
Not sure about skunks. 😎

Wonder what kind of reaction you'd get if you wore it crossing the border. Tell them it's a keepsake from your Mountie days.

More skunk info 🙏!

You’ll need to get Al to post on the pet thread for some junk on the skunk.

Darn, I wish I'd done something like this 😁 I ended up with a fake ladies datejust in a collection a while back, and decided to just toss it instead. BUT, a 9mm would have been basically teh whole dial anyway 😁

He shot at it, but as the bullet approached, the Speedmaster started talking about how it went to the MOON, and so the bullet veered off like a woman at a bar who is similarly told about the Speedmaster's moon experiences 😁