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Despite some hurt feelings, this thread has been very interesting and, yes, for me educational. I do know that in the GEN world some things like these are happening too. It seems the world of horology is going through some kind of shift between Asia and ETA, and it's getting confusing. There's a rumor from many reliable forums (posts from people that have good credentials) that Rolex might not be making all their cases in Switzerland, that some ETA movts. are made in China etc.

I wonder if you can just swap a 2824-2 GEN for a Asian REP of the same movement. I mean if I spent $600 on a high end rep, I'd like a swiss movt in it. I just bought a Bulova BNIB from ebay with a gen 2824-2 in it for $135. Mostly bought it to use the movement one day.

Nice story by original post. I'm not a collector of replicas--not yet. I have ordered a couple and I'll see how it goes. What I do know is that this community, as it is with repgeek, is not what I was expecting to find. I thought all replica websites would be about faking watches to pass them off as real--and to do it as cheaply as possible. And to ultimately sell them as legit on ebay etc.. I also expected folks here and at repgeek to be idiots, following charlatans around buying one fake after another. So, I had all these thoughts--plus the reassuring, overbearing inclination to think all fakes would be easily spotted. Well, I'm wrong on all counts. Save for me perhaps being the lone idiot. One thing that led me here was seeing a post by a Legit website where the owner bought a PAM 217, if I remember right, and falling for it being GEN. This gentleman dealt with high end watches, so how was this possible? Well, from the few short weeks I've spent around here etc...it was probably a well executed REP. Then I bought one of the latest models from RXW--and I knew something great could be built without paying $10K for it. So here I am. I have all GENs as of right now--unless you consider RXW fake as it is. We'll see what the future holds--I surely have an open mind now.

Well, you would think so. While visiting the Panerai boutique a few months ago I was told of a 203 that was a fake, fooled them all at the boutique, but was not genuine despite the fact that all parts were legit. So, somebody got all the parts somehow. Ironically, Panerai simply returns watches that are not legit--Rolex surely wouldn't be that nice. I wish I'd seen the watch of course. Here's a borrowed pic of this beauty.