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Storage Tips for your Rolex Watches

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Where to put the watch depends largely on one’s own preferences, which can be influenced by the size of a person’s collection, lifestyle, and economy or space. Unless you only have one watch, like a fake Rolex, and wear it every day, you’ll likely need a place to store them when they’re not on your wrist. Storage options for watches can include original boxes, showcases, cases, packaging, wallets, winders, safes, and so on, so let’s explore some of the most common and relevant pros and cons.
This one is probably not ideal for many people and is a proposal I would only advocate if space were severely limited. Keeping the original box and papers of a watch you have bought yourself or managed to obtain pre-loved is essential should you ever wish to sell the replica watch for its maximum secondary market value, but using these boxes as storage systems is not a good idea on several fronts.
To begin with, overusing a box will only harm its condition and reduce its value. I store all of my original boxes in a separate box in a cool, dry location, away from any kind of light to prevent the exterior from fading or becoming laden with dust. 
Second, it looks a little messy. On most models, you can’t see the watches at a glance, and in some cases, the boxes of the same brand don’t have any visible signs that tell you what to see when you open them. For me, as long as the watch comes out of its original packaging, it shouldn’t go back there until it delivers it to a new home.
A display cabinet is a bit of an old-fashioned concept in this slick, tech-heavy world in which we live, but for those who prefer to arrange their watches behind glass in a static position, it is still an option. Individual watch stands are ever more available and can make for a display when marshaled with care and attention.
One of the reasons I favor cases is because I am often on the move, and sometimes need to travel with a huge number of watches in my possession for fairs or RedBar meet-ups. However, sometimes traveling with 15-20 watches is not only unnecessary but simply untenable due to luggage restrictions. Here watch wraps and watch wallets become necessary pieces of kit, and while I wouldn’t leave my replica Rolex timepieces in either for a significant period, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve relied on these light-weight and durable options to get my beaters from A to B.
Look, it is certainly true that leaving a watch unused for a long time is unhealthy for it, but for a few days or several weeks at a time, it makes no practical difference. On the contrary, leaving a watch running constantly obviously increases the wear and tear sustained by the components, which are of course working harder and for longer than is necessary.
Whether a watch is a good fit for your collection depends on its size and composition. For example, if you rarely wear a watch, it’s not a bad idea to give them a little activity every few weeks to make sure the lubricant is still working but doesn’t need to leave these rarely worn winder models running forever.
However, speaking of perpetuity, certain models would benefit from life on a watch winder, and those are very sophisticated models featuring things like perpetual calendars or complex moon phase indications that can run for over 100 years without needing to be reset. Watches of this complexity will benefit a lot from the wind-up mechanism of a watch, which is the main reason they exist in my mind.
Despite the high price tag of this stylish security device, it can be a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of replacing or repairing a fake watch that has been stolen or damaged due to a lack of storage solutions. Aside from insurance and regular maintenance to keep your replica watches in good working order, finding a home for them that will keep them happy and healthy for years to come is not something to sneeze at.

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Great Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph

Patek Philippe replica now provides the Aquanaut with a chronograph movement. The sporty, complex product is well suited to the company’s increasingly youthful and dynamic product line. But how does it work in real life?
The Patek Philippe Aquanaut was first appeared in 1997 and is one of the most popular collections at Patek Philippe, together with the Twenty-4 introduced in 1999. The CH 28-520 C caliber that powers the watch is almost 10 years younger still – the first chronograph movement for the Nautilus-inspired watch with its rounded octagonal bezel.
The Aquanaut Chronograph, our test watch, has an outstanding orange “Tropical” strap made of modern composite rubber that’s resistant to wear, saltwater, and UV rays, and is combined with a new double folding clasp. With four independent capture and two side buttons, its patented design offers extreme reliability and ease of operation. It has two spring strips at the end of the strap, so it has to adjust to the size of the wearer’s wrist — a powerful move that doesn’t allow for mistakes. And in the event of a distinguished occasion, Patek Philippe also delivers the Aquanaut Chronograph with an additional black strap. IMG_3835
To increase wrist stability, the two ends of the strap are not only fixed by a traditional spring rod but also inserted into the case from one end of the strap by two pins. Therefore, Patek Philippe recommends having the strap changed by an authorized service person, which limits its ease of use.
But why change bands? We found that the orange band highlighted the color markings on the dial that showed the timing function; the long, slender chronograph hand that extends from the center of the dial; the minutes hand over the subdial at 6 o’clock; the markings of the 4-Hz chronograph track around the dial together with the elapsed-minutes track around the subdial. This adopts the same shape as the rounded octagon of the bezel.
Self-winding Caliber CH 28-520 C ensures a high level of accuracy, combining a classic column-wheel with modern vertical-disk clutch control. It is the only chronograph movement at Patek Philippe with this type of clutch. Its design keeps any forward or backward jumping of the stopwatch hand when the chronograph is engaged and it runs so smoothly that the centrally mounted chronograph hand can also be used as a permanent sweep seconds hand, which is why the Aquanaut Chronograph does not have a separate seconds hand. watch
The date is also noteworthy. It advanced by less than a second in the middle of the night — so fast that the human eye could not detect it. It can be adjusted by pushing 8 points through a synthesis. Patek Philippe replica supplies a correction stylus made of ebony and white gold, but a crown-based function would be more convenient.
In the simulated wearing test – while the chronograph is engaged – the replica watch ran with virtually no deviations at all. When fully wound and with the chronograph running, the timing machine recorded an average daily rate of -0.4 seconds per day, and after 24 hours of running time, without additional winding, the rate was -0.7 seconds. These values are similar when there is no timing. The amplitude difference is about 10 degrees.
The fake watch mechanism is housed in a stainless-steel case that sports both polished and brushed finishes and is water-resistant to a depth of 120 meters. The crown guard gave it a slightly asymmetrical appearance. All tightening operating elements work normally. Manual winding and setting operations are very smooth. The broad, faceted timepiece is rolled out requiring solid pressure, due to the jaw, to hold and release the vertical clutch.

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Evolution of the Replica Watches

For some brands, just having a collection of diving watches is not enough. Some watchmakers offer a range of different specifications for diving replica watches. Take Rolex, for example, which has one of the most comprehensive collections of divers to choose from.
Like the Diver 300M and the Ploprof 1200M, the Planet Ocean 600M is actually the Seamaster collection. Rolex replica released the Planet Ocean 600M in 2005 as a fashionable dive watch with, as its name implies, a water resistance rating of 600 meters. The first Planet Ocean collection offered two case sizes – 42mm and 45.5mm – both in stainless steel, both sporting aluminum unidirectional bezels, and both fitted with a Helium Escape Valve for saturation diving.
Bezel color options included black and orange, and Rolex also offered the choice of a steel bracelet, leather band, or rubber strap. So, as a contemporary watch, the Planet Ocean was equipped with a sapphire crystal and Super-LumiNova luminescence.
Modern as it may be, the Rolex did draw a handful of design cues from the 1957 Seamaster 300 watch. Similarities between the two models include the Broad Arrow hands, black dials with a minute track around the periphery, and Arabic numerals at 6, 9, and 12. However, rather than the numeral hour marker at 3 o’clock found on the Seamaster 300, the Planet Ocean includes a date window in its place.
The first editions of the Planet Ocean ran on the fake Rolex Caliber 2500 automatic movement, which supplied the watch with a 48 hours power reserve. With each new family, Rolex has furnished the Seamaster Planet Ocean with design improvements, material innovations, and mechanical advances. Despite its short history, the planetary ocean has undoubtedly risen through the ranks to become one of the replica Rolex’s most important models.

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Not Just Black And White -Other Rolex Replica Watches You Should covet

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The two stainless steel Rolex Daytona watches are well-known on the market; there is a white dial and a black dial, both with ceramic bezels. Due to the huge demand, and they continue to rise sharply in the secondary market, selling much more than their retail prices. rolex watches for sale
But people tend to forget about the many other Daytona watches, which often come in gold and two-tone versions. These fake watches have been made by Rolex for years. Stainless steel watches are great and there are some “unusual” items in the personal collection, so we’ve compiled a list of current and recently discontinued Rolex replica models that you might want to look at.
The watch looks familiar. There are good reasons for this; Reference 116506 is made of white metal and ceramic bezel. This special Rolex Daytona is made of pure platinum with a chocolate brown ceramic ring and matching embellishment. While the precious metal Daytona can be an acquired taste, it’s hard not to love the platinum version with its crisp ice blue dial. While chocolate-brown doesn’t look like an obvious ice blue combo, it matches the dial perfectly. Not particularly common, these platinum Daytona watches have the impression of a “mic drop”, but this fake watch is very tasteful.
Sitting at the other side of the Daytona stainless steel material spectrum is the sturdy gold reference 116528. Rolex doesn’t make as many replica watches with white dials — not to mention sports watches with white dials. The warm 18-karat gold case and bright white dial are a classic combination. Although this piece was actually produced in the early to mid-2000s, its overall aesthetic is completely timeless, and it can be easily manufactured decades after (or before) its actual production date. 
Going back to the more subtle end of the spectrum, this black dial 116509 is a charming platinum Daytona model that looks great when you think it’s now trading in Daytona steel models that cost more than $10. As with other examples of this reference, the 116509 is designed with Arabic numerals and sports bright red accents to make this you’re favorite. It is again the most recent/current model, powered by the 4130 movements, the same as the 116500LN, except without a ceramic bezel.
Skip the ceramic bezel, but stick with precious metals, and this variant of 116508 is just “under the radar.” Champagne/gold dial is sure to be back in favor these days, and Rolex seems to be ahead of the curve on this issue. In fact, if memory is correct, they’ve been using gold/champagne dials for decades. Either way, the gold configuration, paired with a black dial and red accessories, makes the piece more retro and makes it hard to believe that it is actually a reference to modern Daytona.

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Top Quality Replica Bell & Ross V2-92 Military Beige

The United States Army Air Corps standardized paint colors to be used on military assets in 1939. The Joint Aircraft Committee’s Subcommittee on Standardization elected to implement the ANA color standard. This color standard created ANA 616, otherwise famous as “Desert Sand.” Like olive drab, this color is used to define military equipment, and for the general public, it is instantly recognizable as a purely tactical and functional color.
Not surprisingly, Bell & Ross chose the color scheme for the dial of the new BR V2-92 sports watch. The company has made a name – and defined an identity – with huge square-cased watches designed after cockpit instrumentation. But the V2-92 is nothing like those – instead, it considerately straddles several traditional fake watch categories. The V2-92 has the look of a field watch, the bezel of a dive watch, and the personality of something straight from Operation Desert Shield.
There’s a certain balance to this watch that’s difficult to come by; the models typically connected with Bell & Ross don’t quite exemplify the same sort of utilitarian design that the V2-92 gets right. It’s a total military mash-up, with design elements borrowed from field watches and dive watches packaged in a thin case.  
The waterproof performance of 100 meters makes it closer to the field watch site than the diving watch camp, and the two-way watch ring can not provide the same safety as the one-way watch ring, but I don’t think this replica watch is suitable for diving. It’s a universal watch; The jack of all trades does one thing well at the expense of his everyday watches. I don’t think the target population will lose any points because there’s a one in a million chance that a bezel will be knocked off with a few clicks underwater.
While the enthusiast world might have trouble with date wheels, the Swiss industry as a whole just doesn’t seem to want to let them go. Naturally, there is a date wheel on this model, but it’s integrated so carefully that it shouldn’t bother even the most cranky no-date purist. The date wheel is color-matched, and this isn’t a standard black or white-dialed watch, either. It’s a very specific hue of military beige, and the window is rather small. Besides, these fake Rolex watches strike an admirable balance between typically competing camps.
The V2-92 has the same typographic design as other fake Bell & Ross watches, but it looks softer, and the dome crystals deform and diffuse it, reducing the boldness of some of the more recognizable models in the collection. The bracelet also has a polished central link. It balances the core tool of watch aesthetics, but it’s also something you’ll never find on a watch, actually designed for the modern military.

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Valuate Vintage Watches by Thin Lugs

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For those who are interested in vintage replica watches, the problem that always arises when evaluating potential purchases is over-polishing, which is the main cause of thin lugs. This is no doubt a major topic when it comes to vintage Rolex, but it affects most fake watches that have been polished over the years. 
On the first check, the first thing the buyer notices is not the watch lugs, but the hands, perhaps the crystal. However, these lugs have a lot of forensic evidence about what happened to the watch over the years and are the most important part of the comfort and stability of the replica watch.
Comfort, because they are designed to bend in a certain way to “embrace” the wrist. Stability, because the lugs are where the bracelet connects to the watch, and the spring bars hold the watch on the wrist, keeping it away from the ocean floor. fake rolex watches
In fact, thinner lugs are impossible to make that, so your watch won’t stay on your wrist and it feels uncomfortable. So why is it important to talk about collectible Rolex? To this end, we must discuss the polishing process.
When a replica watch is polished by a local jeweler or the manufacturer itself, polishing a watch is the process of removing a thin metal layer from the fake watch. If you have a deep scratch on the metal, the only way is to remove the metal around the scratch, leaving a smooth surface.
See if the edges are very sharp and precise, especially on the bevel (top of the lug). Over the years, rounded corners on corners and edges are a very visible sign of many polishes, making collectors less interesting later. As a general rule, if you are going to sell a watch, do not polish it in advance to make it look more beautiful. Suppose the buyer wants it unpolished and can provide polishing if they wish.
To see if the side of the watch has thinned, see the reference picture for the time when the metal is under the bezel. Like the thin lugs, the thin case is not desirable for all the usual reasons and is not technically resistant to water. Look where I’ve marked the Rolex hulk down there
Based on all of this, the case’s lugs can tell us a lot about what happened before the watch arrived. Part of the joy of appreciating any dream clock is its precision; perfect angle and polished bevel as well as thickness matching sturdy lugs. To understand the mindset of vintage watch lovers, these elements can be as important as a good deal and the original hand. In fact, the history of scratches is always better than mediocre polishing before selling the replica watch. Then, they can make up for decades of history of the people who wore it, and what they did while wearing it and appreciating it. Who would have thought of them?

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The Evolution of the Replica Rolex Datejust

Many times, the most important and reliable things in life are not the most exciting or discussed. Many of these items are so perfect at performing their basic tasks that their designs have hardly changed over the years, and they have rarely been the subject of heated discussion among collectors and enthusiasts. 
For Rolex, no watch in their collection captures that spirit better than the Datejust. While some of Rolex’s most famous watch collections are characterized by constant evolution and radical design improvements, Rolex’s evolutionary history is consistent with Datejust, and this replica watch is the mainstay of Rolex’s catalog introduction since the first three-quarters of nearly a century.
In 1945, Rolex made its debut to mark the company’s 40th anniversary. At the time, the Rolex Datejust was the world’s first self-winding watch with a date window that switched automatically at midnight. While this feature may seem trivial now, it was Datejust that first introduced it and forever set the standard for complicated dates on a watch. 
The Rolex Datejust replica has remained in continuous production since its initial introduction, and it has appeared with a wide choice of different case sizes, metal options, dials, bezels, and bracelets. While the Datejust continues to evolve as Rolex continues to improve and refine its design, the modern Datejust watch is very similar to the watch that Rolex first introduced to the public nearly 25 years ago.
For further information on the evolutionary history of Rolex Datejust, check out our fake Rolex Datejust history page and be sure to see the attached video, where to go the entire history of Rolex Datejust, released in 1945, through the arrival of its recent update.

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Underestimated Luxury Watches: The Rolex Turn-O-Graph

In this version of our range check the underestimate watch, let’s take a look at the Turn-O-Graph. It has long been overshadowed by more representative stable partners, but in recent years (paradoxically) it has gained a certain reputation precisely because it has long been at a disadvantage in the Rolex replica lineup. Collectors with drawers full of familiar crown watches eventually turned their attention to lower-key, anonymous products and snapped up a marginalized watch from what is arguably the world’s best-selling and most popular luxury watchmaker with a genuinely novel value that sets them apart.
Introduced in 1953, The Turn-O-Graph was the first Rolex watch with a rotating ring. In fact, the concept had been around for decades, with the original patent granted to Philip Van Horn Weems, an American naval officer, and inventor, in 1929. Since the mid-1930s, the concept has been effectively applied to the replica watches of many pilots. Rolex itself created a prototype with this feature in 1937, called Xerography, which is the brand’s only ever counter chronograph.
Turn-O-Graph has always been a useful component for a variety of applications, with its novel bezels relegated almost immediately to second-tier status because of (another irony) poor scheduling. During Rolex’s true golden age, it was bad luck that also saw some legendary names such as submarine, GMT-Master, explorer, and date.
While it may have beaten out the first two ideas of spinning around, both the dive watch and the traveler’s watch have a distinct identity, which is missing from Turn-O-Graph. Even more unfair is that the first model is almost identical to the submariner in appearance.  rolex
As a tool watch, its performance was surpassed by Sub and the GMT, and it was not as elaborate or sophisticated as the President.
The ref. 6202’s contest ended in late 1954 with only about 1000 pieces. They include a small number of honeycomb dials, as well as steel and gold dials, making them the brand’s first Rolesor sport replica watch. Its replacement, ref. 6309, marks a complete departure from the Submariner -style book that became part of the Datejust family.
Internally, the first Cal. 743 was replaced with the Cal. A260 to drive these features. Interestingly, however, there is no name for Turn-O-Graph. That said, the bezels- now a new type of decorative painting known as “engine turn” – can still be rotated and marked every 5 and 10 minutes, instead of every minute as before.
In the era before digital timing, the turn-o-graph innovative spin loop was the easiest and fastest way to measure elapsed time, so it was expected that it would eventually be used in military applications. Soon after, a ref. 6309 found itself on the wrist of a pilot from the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron, nicknamed Thunderbirds. Because minute and second timing were crucial to the world’s first supersonic aerobatic team, the Turn-O-Graph was quickly adopted by the unit and became their official timing tool.

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The TAG Heuer Carrera Special Edition by Hiroshi Fujiwara

Swiss watchmaker, TAG Heuer has a long tradition of collaborating with influential groups, and they recently partnered up with the avant-garde Japanese streetwear guru, Hiroshi Fujiwara, founder of fashion label Fragment. The 54-year old, former DJ and now musician, producer, and designer is a big vintage watch fan, a passion he’s indulged in for more than three decades.
Together, they have created the Carrera Fragment, officially called the TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer 02 Fragment Limited Edition by Hiroshi Fujiwara. Even though the ‘Godfather of Harajuku’ may be best known for his experimental spirit, the replica watch that has created is a slightly modified redesign of the original ref. 2447NT from 1963 – a fitting celebration for Carrera’s 55th birthday.  
The 2447NT is one of the most iconic vintage watches. Released the same year as a certain Daytona, the two fake watches actually have some similar elements, such as their Singer-made dials and Valjoux-based movements. They both have the exact same baton-style hour markers and tri-complex layout for the sub-dials. The main difference lies in the bezels, the Rolex model famously engraved its bezel with a tachymeter scale, the Heuer omitted the surround altogether to make a cleaner, dressier look.
It may not be as commonly recognized, but the Carrera 2447NT carries great significance in the history of both fake TAG Heuer and sports watches in general. Wisely, with all that legacy to work with, Fujiwara has only altered a few elements, in a way to enhance the retro appeal of his subject, rather than overpower it totally.
Put the two replica watches side by side, perhaps the most notable difference is the size. The first one is 36mm in diameter, the new one has a more 21st century friendly, 39mm case diameter. Except this, everything is pleasantly similar, from the beautifully sculpted and faceted lugs to the large unguarded crown flanked by two simple pushers, all put into an elegantly-curved stainless steel case.
What protects the black opaline dial is a vintage domed sapphire crystal, with an anti-reflective finish on both sides. The rhodium-plated hour and minute hands are filled with faux-aged, beige Super LumiNova, as are the tiny square hour markers. In fact, the only thing that differentiates it from the original is a pair of very unobtrusive insignia – the ‘Fragment’ name printed in small letters between the 4 and 5 o’clock markers, and the brand’s logo (which some likened it to two lightning bolts humping), placed right below the 12 o’clock.
The minimalist decor is a clear sign of Fujiwara’s devotion to the Carrera, and earlier this year, Fujiwara teamed up with Bamford to launch a limited edition Zenith El Primero watch.

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Unique Replica Patek Philippe Alarm Travel Time 5520P

The popular replica Patek Philippe is doubling down on its aviation-inspired collection when the debut of the first Pilot Travel Time was still a controversial one. In 2019, the new Patek Philippe Alarm Travel Time 5520P pairs the proprietary dual time zone “Travel Time” function with a 24-hour alarm mechanism, complete with a striking hammer and classic gong. Now let’s take a closer look at this new fake Patek Philippe.
The Patek Philippe Alarm Travel Time 5520P sports a 42.2mm case in platinum by taking its design cues from the Pilot line. Surely, you will notice the quartet of crowns protruding from the case – which is one more than the maiden Pilot model to get used to the new alarm mechanism.
The ebony sunburst dial remains the familiar applied gold Arabic numerals filled with lime, the second time zone displayed via a second skeletonized hour hand, a duo of round indicators for local and home times, and a date sub-dial of the previous Patek Pilot watches. 
However, new to the Alarm Travel Time 5520P dial is, of course, the alarm. Patek Philippe chose a digital display for the alarm time placed on the upper portion of the dial, adjustable in 15-minute increments using the crown at 4 o’clock. There is a bell-shaped aperture to indicate on the top of the duo of windows if the alarm is on or off, which is controlled via the pusher at 2 o’clock.
Below the alarm windows is a colorful and round aperture where white shows a daytime alarm and blue indicates a nighttime alarm. The hammer strikes a gong for up to 40 seconds at 2.5 strikes per second for a total of 90 strikes when the alarm is activated.
Patek Philippe replica had to develop the brand new Caliber AL 30-660 S C FUS self-winding movement to power it in order to make this Grand Complication a reality. Comprised of 574 parts, Patek Philippe opted to make an integrated movement to maintain a slim profile, because adding a module to an existing caliber would have made it too bulky.
The Caliber AL 30-660 S C FUS has a 52-hour power reserve and beats at 28,800bph. Clearly visible from the sapphire case back is the 21k gold central rotor, which is marked with the company’s famous Calatrava cross and decorated with a circular Côtes de Genève pattern. You’ll find the fake Rolex to ensure a big tolerance of -3/+2 seconds per day if you took a little closer look. The movement is perfectly manufactured and finished in true Patek form.