Audemars Piguet Watch....Real or Fake

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wear it and pretend your the Terminator ..
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Well I'm just wearing it as I need a watch and it tells the time :)

I 'think' its a fake, but given it's this hard to tell without sending it back to the manufactures that seems quite funny to me.

I Had never heared of this make to be honest and always thought the likes of Omega and Rolex were expensive watches. Searching for this AP watch soon found out that Rolex / Omega / etc are almost the casio's of the posh watch ranges...


Some seriously pricey watches out there.


I doubt many people either have heared of the AP?


Funny thing is I'm looking to buy a watch for a big birthday coming up and it will be a drop in the ocean compared to this or many other watches...


Thanks all
 
Do the sub dials work correctly, many fakes, they don't as it is a complicated piece of kit to make them work. However, fakes vary in price from a few quid to £4 or £500 and the top end fakes are good
 
yes, all work, second hand stops at the top if I use the chrono function.

Date etc all works as it should

:)
 
I would say it's definitely a fake because of the thickness of the AP. On the genuine ones this is much thinner. Also, in your pictures, although I appreciate it could be the picture quality and lighting, I can't see the luminous edging to the digits that exists on the genuine watches.
 
I mentioned this to a jewellers which I deal with for my watches (they deal with AP's as special order only) and she said that if you really wanted to know if it is real or not it would have a serial number etched inside, if the jewellers can find that it can be looked up on the list of real watches produced - that is how most high end watches are identified. Fakes have pretty good details and decent working mechanisms nowadays, all in the serial numbers.
 
Thanks all,

The luminous edging is there it actaully lights up very well at night which I like.

That picture is the best yet as showing its close but maybe no cigar :)

Still £12,750 for a watch and its hard to tell the difference....real or not :)


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mine (dads)
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Apart from at MBClub meets, the only people who are going to now are those that have the real thing.

I suspect that the biggest "tell" for those wondering will be you, i.e. if you have just stepped off your Sunseeker yacht onto Monaco harbour, the watch is real. If you have just clambered out of your Nissan Sunny, to bob into Cash Converters, you have a fake watch.

:D
 
^ Guess I'm somewhere in the middle....

I step out of my E class / or B class and head to Sainsburys to do my shop :)

:) I will just wear it for what it is, a watch that tells the time.
 
Just spotted something that gives the game away.
I think it's a fake.

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Many people simply won't know a prestige watch simply from looking at it in the street. I've been wearing a vintage Submariner for months and no one has given it a second look.

One of the reasons is that the lower class of watch manufacturers are creating "homage" watches using design cues from the higher market (just like in fashion).

So, if the watch works, keeps time, and doesn't turn your wrist green then enjoy it for what it is.
 
Other than sending it back to AP, your best bet is to find an enthusiast/owner who can most probably tell right away if this is a fake. Once you know the marque's style, every minute detail is rather obvious to see, even if you're not familiar with that particular model.

AP is not my thing, but if your dad ever finds a Breguet - let me know: will be able to tell you with almost 100% accuracy if it's real or not (unless it's older than about 80-90yr - bit of a grey area there) :thumb:
 
The strange thing is also the LH sub dial, real is 30 at the twelve oclock position, the other is 12 at the twelve oclock position.
 
Take it to a retailer that specialises in AP. There are several in the UK.
Look here........... Official Stores and Service Centers - Audemars Piguet Swiss Luxury Watches

In my limited experience, staff who man these outlets are usually very helpful.
The guy working in their Monaco shop was more than happy to let me try on a £495,000 watch.

You do run the risk of them destroying the watch if it is a fake - they don't have to and most won't, but some will.
 
your right many won't know the difference, but there are people that do, others that own high mark watches can tell....

Many people simply won't know a prestige watch simply from looking at it in the street. I've been wearing a vintage Submariner for months and no one has given it a second look.

One of the reasons is that the lower class of watch manufacturers are creating "homage" watches using design cues from the higher market (just like in fashion).

So, if the watch works, keeps time, and doesn't turn your wrist green then enjoy it for what it is.
 

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