2nd opinion from my fellow crunchers
Hello Fellow Crunchers! Reaching out to owners/experts of VC watches. The pics attached are a friends watch they wanted me to look at to see if it’s a real VC watch. It appear fake to me for a for reasons.
-No serial# on or inside the case back.
-Doesn’t appear to be the style of a VC overseas
-No cross above the VC logo
-Buckle on strap is not in the shap of a cross
-I suspect a real VC strap doesn’t have “genuine leather” stamped on it.
-Strap looks very flimsy
-Plastic insert in the movement
-No serial # or markings on the movement
-The suspect this may be a Tanjin movement?
For those VC experts please let me if this sounds correct and if I am missing something? Or maybe I’m just dead wrong if this is the real thing? Cheers and have a great day or evening wherever you live 🙏.
Been collecting timepieces just over a year. Love Seiko, IWC and a A Lange Sonhe would be the ultimate Grail watch.
It's definitely not a real VC. My eyes tell me that. I also would bet he did not pay real VC prices. That is always my first question. What did he pay and where did he buy?
I not exactly sure how much they paid probably nor much.(Maybe $100-$200 USD) It belonged to my friends husband who just passed away. He would run estate cleanouts and I suspect he found it there? Thanks for the confirmation. I suspected when I first saw this but I wanted to double check.
Sorry to say it's a fake.
It was probably bought aboard, turkey or the far East. It seems to be a cheap version knock-off.
There are really good fakes out there these days and it's incredibly difficult to tell them apart.
This one however is a bad knock-off.
Lend your friend a hammer.
Tell him to use it on the fake watch.
That is so spank I can hear the slap from here…
That movement is an absolute disgrace, the finishing is very low grade, and no markings. The caseback is cheap as hell.
That is so spank I can hear the slap from here…
That movement is an absolute disgrace, the finishing is very low grade, and no markings. The caseback is cheap as hell.
What one? 😂
Sorry for the laugh but never have I ever seen TWO automatic movements inside ONE watch.
An obvious fake I'm afraid.
Sorry for the laugh but never have I ever seen TWO automatic movements inside ONE watch.
An obvious fake I'm afraid.
Absolutely love all of the comments 😂! I have been collecting watches for just over year but I was astounded myself. I appreciate all of the input. Honestly I could believe what I was seeing so and I needed this group to be my soundboard. I don’t have too many people close to me that are watch people.
Wow, what a terrible fake 🙄
Never seen double movement in same case... Watch should have a perpetual calendar complication because of subdials but movements are no name low quality...