Do you think people do not wear watches in the era of mobile phone? No, in fact, it is likely to wear three watches, but only two of them are fake. The following figures are quite impressive: in early 2008, more than 500,000 fake watches were sold in the Italian and Mexican markets alone alone; the world produced about 40 million pieces of counterfeit goods per year, compared to "Swiss Made "There are only 26 million original Swiss watches; in 2007, the Swiss Watch Federation removed 35,000 fake watches from the web; and 4,000 provided copies of Rolex.
Wear three watches, two may be fake
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Cottage products around the world to authentic manufacturers caused 350 million euros in losses, accounting for 7% of the total international trade. The black-market economy associated with the watch caused a loss of 300,000 jobs in Europe, up from 70,000 in Germany alone.
On international counterfeit statistics, watches and jewelery rank behind textiles, computer software, CDs and DVDs. Of course, counterfeit watches are less harmful than fake medicines and spare parts for fake car airplanes, which can cause physical and mental damage in addition to economic losses.
If some people think that imitation is only the performance of "our age" in our time, he is totally mistaken. In the days of the Swiss watch master Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), his timepieces were made sophisticated by technological advances, and thus, in aristocrats, officers, priests, and economically bourgeoisie Very popular, followed by imitation. To prevent others from abusing his name, Mr. Breguet made a secret mark on the dial, perhaps the earliest anti-raid move of the world's recorded watch brands.
However, with the " Tourbillon " invention in the watch history has left an immortal Mr. Breguet will not think of a few years ago, rivers and lakes appeared on the price of only 700 dollars, "Tourbillon" table, the manufacturing method with the traditional Tourbillon completely different. This incident brought a great impact to Breguet's original Drehgang, which showed that in the Far East a rather cheap tourbillon was produced with the help of advanced numerical control machines. Of course, the legal department of the Swatch Group is now handling the incident, and Breguet has fallen under its umbrella since autumn 1999.
The result is not certain - not enough to affect the Swiss protracted war on imitations. From these events, we can see that some watch factories outsourced cases such as watch cases to China, and exported some of the necessary high-tech instruments to contribute to the establishment of know-how.
Switzerland adopted a more or less effective means of retaliation, and she passed an amendment to protect intellectual property that came into force in mid-2008. The bill, which prohibits the import, export and carriage of counterfeit goods, is only flawed in its implementation because it is impossible to conduct a complete inspection of incoming passengers and to pay attention only to bulk imports. But these international fraud groups have long come up with countermeasures, hiding the goods in, for example, plastic trumpets. "Customs officials opened the parcel and saw unsuspected cheap goods," said Yves Brouze, a Swiss counterfeit crime expert.
In fact, the watch industry in Switzerland and Germany even more shocking is that more and more imitation products to do better. For Counterfeit Breguet (Breguet) Tourbillon flywheel or other device (Drehgang), luxury brands such as Blancpain (Blancpain), Hublot (Hublot) or Lange (A.Lange & Soehne) of products, even if there is a similar manufacturing Technology, relatively speaking, is still relatively easy to identify. The other type of counterfeit, the installation is a genuine movement - though it is the kind of mass production and no finishing movement. The purpose of such fakes is not to deceive customers because their purchasers may simply be interested in buying fake imitations that are still working at a mere fraction of the price of genuine ones.
To Rolex (Rolex) as an example, but a lot of changes. For the first time in 1934, the Geneva watch factory filed a lawsuit against counterfeit "Oyster" cases. After 50 years in 1984, Rolex sued again. This time it is for a coffee dealer who, in addition to Mocha and Cappuccino, sells a "Royal" watch that resembles that of a Rolex. However, the time when people were able to recognize the authenticity from the quartz movement's second hand and the worn-out dial was over. Nowadays the counterfeiters in the market place great emphasis on detail, and the crown and crown are not forgotten on the dial and escape wheel .
1968 Rolex "Daytona" (Daytona) once on the market by the collector's fanatical pursuit, the cottage industry has long been eyeing it. Since the early Daytona is used Zenith (Zenith) produced EL-Primero movement (for enthusiasts: the use of Zenith movement Rolex 16513,16518,16519,16520,16523,16528, 16568 and 16589), the beginning of the cottage are more stress, also use the same movement. But then they also lowered their "industry standards," requiring only a functioning gyrocompass movement and a 30-minute counter at the "3" point.
This is because Zenith does not sell anything, and components available on the gray market are very expensive. But soon there was a very imaginative Swiss Jean-Pierre Jaquet, a man called the "black angel" in the business, who at the time also could afford the ETA / Valjoux 7750 Blank movement of the counter to the right by 90 degrees: anyway, "Daytona" in this position also need no date display. Such a strong "Daytona" gold watch successfully came out, inexperienced people have paid a high price.
If you pay more attention, in fact, you can avoid this miscalculation. Larger and thicker Valjoux7750 movement more places, experts can be aware of the ratio of the case and the dial is not right. Rolex for security reasons to move the pointer 4130 movement "north" a little - this is an extra act: automatic Gyuto Valjoux7750 automatic movement is approaching legal protection, and can be used in China with very little The money gets a variety of replicas.
The "cottage table" efforts have long been no longer limited to the appearance, and its functions have also been more and more. Variety of observatory watches fitted with Valjoux 7750 or minute counters on the right make authentic brands extremely irritating, especially for those who have no special style of back window, but are ruthlessly tricking ignorant watch enthusiasts. Over the years, Breitling (Breitling), Cartier (Cartier) and TAG Heuer (TAG Heuer) has to worry about fakes. Of course, their struggle is basically hopeless. Now some counterfeit goods do well in appearance, even some professional retailers and importers can not distinguish them from the original. Breitling is one of the most popular brands in the cottage (Breitling for fans: including the recommended 13356 Chronomat, 17390 SuperOcean and 24322 Navitimer). The fake appearance - the case, dial and pointer are very good quality, a look can withstand with a magnifying glass finicky watch. Dial the details and pointers are largely in line with genuine. Case has a central screw, the same polished and looks very authentic carving, including the query and serial number. You only know when you open the back cover - this time showing the ticking may be a copycat, maybe not.
On the Internet, there are also cottage products made with genuine Valjoux caliber, such as Cartier "Santos" or "Ballon Bleu", depending on the charge. Here are also Chinese-made or ETA automatic movement to choose from. If anyone wants to decorate with a small amount of dollars to buy a block Rolex "Daytona Paul Newman": There is no doubt that the ratchet control made by China and the hand-crafted Aufzug Observatory movement do just that.
It has not been long since people need to travel specifically to the cosmopolitan cities concerned, and the internet offers many (if not all) options. But be careful: you are likely to be deceived - and getting lawful protection is still a problem. Especially in online shopping, the buyer often lose everything. The goods did not reach the hands of customers, no matter what the buyer can not get compensation. The biggest obstacle was the confiscation of the goods by the customs authorities, as the EU now lays down strict laws against such pirated products. The consignors are barely liable in these circumstances because they either disappeared by not replying to urging, or by repurchasing themselves over the Internet. Furthermore, the EU's customs authorities only allow direct importation of goods that can be proved to be used by themselves and not exceeding 175 euros. Packs and certificates are no longer proof of their innocence, and they are just as fake as these. Swiss Watch Federation and the Swiss Association of Haute Horlogerie Foundation (FHH) did an image to promote this.
"Fake watches are for false people" is to warn those who do not want to buy or can not afford the genuine use of these fakes to give their "increase" people. Even more pathetic are those who have bought a sale from a gray channel - such as from a network or an unauthorized retailer - and later identified as a counterfeit product. It is almost impossible to increase these prices. Unless he himself is a liar.