Is my TAG Heuer Authentic? All questions here please

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That's interesting, so apparently TAG Heuer can spot fakes of their own watches after all!
 
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Aquagraph Aquagraph
That's interesting, so apparently TAG Heuer can spot fakes of their own watches after all!
lol they always could. Just not so much with the much older ones. A dealer tho couldn't find his ass from a hole in the ground. The boxes seem to be getting better...

The plastic wrap is still wrong. They are taking the stickers off the tags now.

Hard part is, tag heuer does tiny changes here and there, so it's hard to know what's fake, and what's just tag heuer changing things.
 
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Yup and the sticker-label is printed wrong too.....
 
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YG_Rulz YG_Rulz
Coming across quite a few cases on FB groups where cloned watches with full set and registration details are being sold. Highlighting another brilliant clone which could only be picked up by LVMH. The font on the warranty card is a bit off, but to the layman (myself included) this would have been a legit watch. So buyer BEWARE!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/467758651245567/permalink/837608824260546/
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These have been around for quite a while. Very hard to spot the difference. Here's another example, the Gulf F1. I've seen these a lot, almost identical to the real thing, including the full set with a proper warranty number & serial number. But while I can tell it's fake, probably around 99% of the buyers out there couldn't.
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I tell you what is slightly worrying... it's a known fact that people buy trainers from websites and then send fakes back. What's to stop this happening with watches? How thoroughly are they checked when they go back? Do they just check the serial number on the caseback? Maybe they should be printing the serial number on the case itself - or both?
 
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Mspeedster Mspeedster
These have been around for quite a while. Very hard to spot the difference. Here's another example, the Gulf F1. I've seen these a lot, almost identical to the real thing, including the full set with a proper warranty number & serial number. But while I can tell it's fake, probably around 99% of the buyers out there couldn't.
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lol the gulfs were super popular like a year or so back. SOOO many of them.
 
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I was always curious that if you paid a lot of money for a fake, take it into a TAG store or reseller and they identify it as a fake/counterfeit - do they keep it and not give it back to the customer?
 
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I was always curious that if you paid a lot of money for a fake, take it into a TAG store or reseller and they identify it as a fake/counterfeit - do they keep it and not give it back to the customer?

I don't think they can as it is not their property. Someone posted a photo of a fake watch with a return note from TAG saying 'counterfeit watch', could well be in this thread.
 
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That’s it, I’m only buying from AD from now on.
 
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Found this Monaco " Day-Date" dial on ebay, starting bid £190. Definitely a fake, but would be very cool to have a Day-Date Monaco for sure
 
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Jim Dollares Jim Dollares
Yeah that is weird. Photos are taken from so far away which is suspicious, no way to zoom and tell if it looks off or not.

Edit: C man beat me to it!
i love it when they take a photo, THROUGH a loupe.
 
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Aquagraph Aquagraph
I tell you what is slightly worrying... it's a known fact that people buy trainers from websites and then send fakes back. What's to stop this happening with watches? How thoroughly are they checked when they go back? Do they just check the serial number on the caseback? Maybe they should be printing the serial number on the case itself - or both?


I mean, you can send a rock back. They don't have to send back even a fake version of what they bought. Hell, I've sent literally a bag of rocks to a seller who sent ME a fake. Not that they care, after they've sold 30 of them, before I took them down.

As far as as serial numbers. The fakes have the same case backs as the real ones, so you could easily swap the backs, and then GOOD LUCK trying to notice the difference.
omega does the serial number on the case tho. But that's why they cost more.
 
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I was always curious that if you paid a lot of money for a fake, take it into a TAG store or reseller and they identify it as a fake/counterfeit - do they keep it and not give it back to the customer?
That probably harbors back to the days when stores would take a credit card from a customer. But no, they can NOT take your watch from you, as it's your property and that would be theft. As mentioned, even the manufacturer themselves, will send you back the watch, and even pay for shipping. I've used that method a few times to check on a watch, before I learned enough.
 
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Green dialed Formula 1 ref. CAH1110 but the bezel (especially the 3 in 30 at six hour mark) doesn't look quite right. Not to mention the TAG Heuer font on the tag. I want it to be true👎
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Green dialed Formula 1 ref. CAH1110 but the bezel (especially the 3 in 30 at six hour mark) doesn't look quite right. Not to mention the TAG Heuer font on the tag. I want it to be true👎
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Never seen these in green.
Only white and black.
I'm calling fake.
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