Cheap aquatimer and a question

[kramerica2]

Hey all,

been looking to expand my watch collection, and I set my eyes on the Aquatimer. In the Rep world, I'm very cheap, and not willing to spend more than 150$ on a watch (I did spend more than 1000$ on a gen). Is there any decent Aquatimer at that price or lower?

And a general question, I can now spot the flaws on any Omega rep, but as a total noob to IWC watches I know nothing about the Aquatimers, could someone point out the easy tells than you can spot a fake by?

Thanks a lot..

Edited June 29, 2009 by kramerica2

[simzger]

Hey all,

been looking to expand my watch collection, and I set my eyes on the Aquatimer. In the Rep world, I'm very cheap, and not willing to spend more than 150$ on a watch (I did spend more than 1000$ on a gen). Is there any decent Aquatimer at that price or lower?

And a general question, I can now spot the flaws on any Omega rep, but as a total noob to IWC watches I know nothing about the Aquatimers, could someone point out the easy tells than you can spot a fake by?

Thanks a lot..

i am still a noob, but: for that kinda money, you won't get a working chrono! maybe a quartz though...

[Toadtorrent]

The easy tells for most are that a chrono at that price will either be quartz which will have likely (but not necessarily) tighter subdial spacing (closer together subdials) with the seconds hand moving like a quartz watch (not smooth sweeping).

An Asian 21j with working chronos will have 2 subdials with "60" counters or will have the wrong subdial printing because the a21j doesn't operate like an a7750 movement.

Some of them are still fine though.

I would recommend going for a non-chrono if you can for that money as there are some decent higher end reps at that price in the non-chrono variety than chrono reps at that price.

[kramerica2]

Thank you both for the reply.

I never said I want a chrono, I'm very aware to the fact that a working chrono raises the price quite a lot.

I've seen some very nice Aquatimers without chrono. Could you recommend a dealer the keeps those REPs? even better maybe a specific watch from a specific dealer?

Thanks again..