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Old 25 November 2022, 02:24 AM   #61
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Old 25 November 2022, 02:30 AM   #62
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Hey guru! How bout an update?


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Old 27 November 2022, 06:48 AM   #63
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Old 27 November 2022, 11:25 AM   #64
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Kindly do the needful and update us at the earliest
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Old 11 December 2022, 05:21 AM   #65
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Might as well deep 6 this thread..... totally useless.
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Old 11 December 2022, 05:37 AM   #66
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OOF, where to begin this story. Firstly, as a friend, but also as a watch lover, this story hurts. I went to one of my best friends weddings this past weekend and it was wonderful. During the wedding weekend, the groom's uncle, a self proclaimed "massive watch guy" with a "really crazy Rolex collection" rolled up with a 126619LB white gold sub, AKA the cookie monster or whatever you want to call it. The uncle takes it off his wrist, gives it to the groom, and says congratulations. My friend is a minor watch guy, he has subscribed to a few watch subscriptions that send some random sub $200 watch every couple months, but he has never cared enough about watches to spend his hard earned money on what we may all consider as a big ticket purchase, so it is safe to say he was absolutely blown away by receiving a $40k+ white gold Rolex. He knows of my love for watches and runs to find me to show me this amazing thing. I was blown away but it being his wedding day, did not keep him or spend any significant time looking at the watch.

Fast forward two days and I posted the attached pic to Reddit without doing any real inspection to the photo and was shocked when the comments declaring fake fake fake began to roll in. I quickly realized that they were right.

1.) Massive lugs
2.) No crown between Swiss and Made at 6 o'clock
3.) Generally bad font all over the dial
4.) no polished center links and a material that is blatantly stainless steel
5.) around midnight of the wedding, the watch lost over 1.5 hours of time....

The list goes on. To wrap this up, I do not think I will tell my friend. This watch is a wedding day memory that will last a life time and his "massive watch guy" uncle is either a complete fraud who purposefully gifted a fake watch or he is just another rich guy who buys watches for status and also got duped into buying a fake.

Chime in with your thoughts as I am still in awe of this story myself!

Yep. Ultimately a troll with a fake, but fun, story.


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Old 22 February 2023, 06:19 AM   #67
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Update: I absolutely 100% have not and will not be telling him! Nothing to gain for him, it is in all of his wedding photos, and I do not want to stir the relationship between him and his new brother in law (no matter how much of a scum bag he is for gifting a fake watch "from his personal collection")
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Old 22 February 2023, 06:41 AM   #68
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Update: I absolutely 100% have not and will not be telling him! Nothing to gain for him, it is in all of his wedding photos, and I do not want to stir the relationship between him and his new brother in law (no matter how much of a scum bag he is for gifting a fake watch "from his personal collection")
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Old 22 February 2023, 06:53 AM   #69
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Update: I absolutely 100% have not and will not be telling him! Nothing to gain for him, it is in all of his wedding photos, and I do not want to stir the relationship between him and his new brother in law (no matter how much of a scum bag he is for gifting a fake watch "from his personal collection")
Yup, one of those things better left unsaid!
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Old 22 February 2023, 07:04 AM   #70
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Update: I absolutely 100% have not and will not be telling him! Nothing to gain for him, it is in all of his wedding photos, and I do not want to stir the relationship between him and his new brother in law (no matter how much of a scum bag he is for gifting a fake watch "from his personal collection")
So perhaps the uncle got scammed out of 30-40k and you won't tell. Okay then.
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Old 22 February 2023, 11:05 AM   #71
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When are you going to tell him to take it to get it serviced because it doesn’t keep time?????
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