Hi all,
So, we've just got back from 10 days in Cambodia - Seim Reap and Phnom Pehn - with the same watches as I left with

The trip itself was great and will upload some photos in the next few days. Most importantly, my 22 month old copes very well and enjoyed clambering all over the temples.

Looking through the tourist markets in both Seim Reap and phnom Pehn I had never seen so many fakes!!! Omega, Patek, Longines, Rolex, Tag, G-shocks (yes, fake G-shocks), AP, etc, etc. some photos, not great, as mostly taken surreptitiously on my blackberry


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What I hadn't seen before was modern fakes of vintage watches. I saw this fake pie pan all over the place
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There is also a fake C-shape Connie, which appears to have a quartz movement. I didn't get a photo of that but by god it was terrible.

Most of them were selling for between $20 and $80 in the shops and markets. It wasn't just in the crappy tourist markets, but also in normal shops marketed as watch shops, all along the street running south away from the central market. Then, there were street dealers, with those small carts on wheels, selling those same fake watches second hand. I did scour those, hoping to accidentally find a real amongst the fakes, but without luck.

There was only one shop I found selling legit stuff, including a solid gold C-shape Connie for $3.5k on that same street. That is where I found that Rolls International


It made me really realize that in many countries, fakes are the norm, so those stories of "I got this from my grandfather and I have no idea" could be legitimate because it may be all they have ever seen.
Daniel

 

The Fake Filter Trev created / installed must be working.

 

That must be the most sophisticated filter in the market.........
Feed by many fake watch pictures as stream database, the filter will process the input using Artificial Intelligence engine to identify based on 32 visual factors to determine probability scoring of fake watches. A score of higher than 70% will automatically reject your picture to appear in computer. This filter will automatically turned on by keyword "....so many fakes!!!!"

The next Trev project in pipeline:
(1) Redial filter: an automatic AI based answering bot to promptly respond the typical question "Is the dial original?"
(2) Omega vintage Value estimator: giving estimate within 10% range a value of vintage omega based on question " what is the value of my inherited watch?"
.....and (3) Dibs buster: An automatic censor for member who already pass the Dibs limit based on statement " Very nice watch.....Dibs"

 

Redial filter. The one problem with that is 85% of new members would have their posts answered by the bot.

 

Is that not the point...

 

There goes half my content.

 

Photos

 

The other ones I had already put up in my earlier cambodia thread

 

Respectable Member CanberraOmega

To you, to me and also to other forum members, we know those watches are fakes. Probably, most of the Cambodians who want to own a brand-name watch, will still insist they are authentic because they are not exposed to the real stuff, as yet.

Thank-you.

 

If you buy a watch like that do you get a free bowl of Nom banh chok?

 

This is very highly sought Omega: Tourbillon moonphase chronograph broad arrow.

 

Sure hope so...gotta get something for your money

 

And that is what is scary!

 

Those are some darn fake looking fakes alright.

 

The 'super rare' constellation 'picnic rug' dial! With the even rarer 'chunky wide lad' octagonal crown! And mega expensive invisible non-radioactive tritium! Don't tell me you passed on this puppy? Or is that... Pup.

 

Ha!
Unfortunately not super rare at all. I saw at least a dozen.