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·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
View attachment 25154
What I hadn't seen before was modern fakes of vintage watches. I saw this fake pie pan all over the place
View attachment 25155
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
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
View attachment 25154
What I hadn't seen before was modern fakes of vintage watches. I saw this fake pie pan all over the place
View attachment 25155
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
