Richard Mille watches aren’t as bad as people say, and the people who say they look like a Happy-Meal toy have almost certainly never actually seen one. I’m not saying they’re good looking, just that they get A LOT more hate than they deserve.
As a general rule of thumb, I don’t think Rolex ever used plastic movement spacers in their watches. I have never personally seen one. Also, gold with an 18k stamp is required to have hallmarks and makers stamps is required by law in Switzerland (and many other countries). So if there isn’t a hallmark on a relatively modern Swiss gold watch, it isn’t real. As for the movement, it’s likely a Chinese movement of some sort.
Functional jewelry.
I have an older Hamilton Khaki manual, and it’s incredibly loud.
Right now, it appears to be a one off prototype some dudes are making to basically be a smartwatch in the body of an F91W. I just googled F91 Kepler like it says at the bottom of the picture.
Unique watch, definitely worth getting serviced/restored with someone who knows what they’re doing, which admittedly can be somewhat hard to find.
Well, in your case, neither.
Doesn’t look real to me, but if it were, $10k would be a ~$20k lowball.
Probably an AP Royal Oak chrono in steel with the blue dial. I have no idea how likely I am to get it, but my chances probably aren’t that great.
A custom tag Monaco as per his contract.
Speedmaster or a 5 digit Datejust. Can’t go wrong with either one.
Live the VC Chrono and Yacht Master. I mean, they’re all awesome, but those two really stick out to me.
£200 for a JLC is about 10x cheaper than I would ever expect even the cheapest one to list for. When high-end watches like a JLC are well used, they still look like high-end watches. I know it’s hard to tell if one doesn’t have much experience with real high-end watches, but after spending enough time seeing pictures of them online, or even seeing them IRL, one can spot a fake instantly.
You can tell it’s fake because it looks like garbage. JLC is one of the finest watchmakers in the world. If it has a model number on the back, google the model number. There should be something you can google to verify legitimacy. But seriously, use your gut. This looks worse than something a homeless dude outside the JLC factory would shit out.
James May has a white dial Milgauss, and while he isn’t the biggest nerd, he is watch nerd. Rolex is not an automatic disqualification.
This is a difficult one. Probably the OP, but I know it wouldn’t matter which I got, I would regret not getting the other.