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Kevin
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If I'm not mistaken, there are many replicas for sale there. Keep your wits about you!
You will find all type of categories in many different jewelers mostly located in shopping centers. I think if you visit the biggest shopping centers you will see a lot of jewelers selling lower brands to typical Swatch Group brands to even high end brands like official Rolex dealers in high end shopping centers. You will find often other luxury brands there side by side. Dont go and buy watches from the Grand Bazaar. The only place where fakes are being sold very official. The whole market consists of fake dealers. But rest of Istanbul is not selling fake. In addition to that on the Istikal Caddesi (famous shopping street) near to the famous Galatasaray Highschool, you can find some antique vintage dealers too. On the same road there is a shopping center as well the Istiklal mall. I think there should be at least one shop who is selling watches. But due to the higher import tax, you won‘t probably find any good deals in Turkey in general. They are often higher priced compared to EU and US. You can look for new watch brands you never heard before as they are Turkish brands such as Nacar. There are also couple of „Swiss Made“ brands that nobody heard before as these are also Turkish brands.