Watch manufacturer: What are the identification methods for famous watches?

Now there are many famous brands of watches on the market, and fake watches are mixed with others. Many friends will buy fake watches accidentally. So if we want to buy a watch, what should we pay attention to, and what method should we use to identify it? As a watch manufacturer, we offer the following tips.

1. Natural diamonds, man-made diamonds, rhinestones (glass drills)

Natural diamonds are the hardest of all objects, with a hardness of 10, man-made diamonds are 8-9, and rhinestones (glass drills) are lower in hardness than natural diamonds and man-made diamonds, and are fragile. The price of man-made diamonds and rhinestones is very cheap, only 0.1-0.2 per grain. Therefore, when buying a watch with natural diamonds, you must pay attention to its authenticity, and you can go to the relevant department for testing if necessary.

2. K gold, gold-plated, acid-plated gold

The surface colors of K gold, gold-plated and acid-plated gold are all yellow, which is not easy to distinguish, and it is difficult to distinguish without instrument detection. Some counterfeit products mark 10K gold shells as 18K gold shells, and some even pass off gold-plated shells as K gold shells. In addition, the thickness of the gold-plated layer of the gold-plated shell is also difficult to measure. Some watches are marked with 3 microns of gold plating, but in fact, there is not even 1 micron. The color of the gold will fade after the watch has been used for more than one year. What's more, the acid-plated aluminum alloy shell is introduced as a guarantee that it will not fade for several years. After less than half a year of actual use, the gold color turns black, and even the ability to prevent rust is lost. Therefore, consumers are buying Be sure to ask clearly when buying a gold watch.

3. Mirror glass

There are three types of watch glass currently in use: plexiglass, ordinary quartz glass, and sapphire crystal glass. What is confusing and difficult to distinguish is quartz glass and sapphire crystal glass, which differ greatly in quality and price. Sapphire crystal glass was once called "non-abrasive glass", and now it is changed to "non-abrasive glass". Its price is about dozens of times that of ordinary quartz glass, so sapphire crystal glass is only used in high-end watches.

In the absence of testing equipment, a simple method can be used to distinguish ordinary quartz glass from sapphire crystal glass. Put a drop of water on the surface of the watch glass, and then put them upright. If the water is in the form of small balls and does not flow, it is sapphire crystal glass. On the contrary, if the water flows down the surface, it is ordinary quartz glass.

4. Dial

The craftsmanship of the watch needle is the most telling problem in watch appraisal. The pointer of the fake watch is rarely made well, such as the place where the needle flag hangs down, the needle is uneven, the brightness is not good, and the edges and corners of the needle are not clear. The tail of the second hand of ROLEX is circular, while the fake watch is flat, and the second hand of some quartz watches is thickened for balance, and so on. Authentic watch plate and English logo, scale. The printing of the real watch is very unique, the lacquer is very bright, and the printing is very high, but the fake watch cannot do this. It is often seen that the printing of some fake watches is blurred and cannot be completely covered.

5. Movement

Imported Japanese watches must use movements made in Japan. If it is found that the movement used is produced in Switzerland or other countries, the watch must also be a fake and shoddy product. Watches produced in China use a variety of movements, such as Swiss, Japanese, and domestic movements. Consumers should be aware that some counterfeiters use fake and inferior movements to put on their watches as shoddy ones.

Secondly, the splint or pendulum in the genuine trademark movement is marked with the trademark logo, the movement is stable in the case assembly, and the movement is clean. There is no trademark label on the splint or pendulum in the counterfeit watch movement, or the trademark label is rough, blurred, skewed, or simply pasted with small copper pieces. The movement is not clean, and some movements have copper filings and hair inside. Silk, fingerprints, etc.

6. Digital Identification

A general watch has a case model and a movement model, and a high-end watch should also have the production serial number of the watch, the production serial number of the movement, and the strap number, and these marks are printed on the inside and outside of the back cover of the watch. In addition, some watches have numbers on the inside and outside of the strap lugs. Whether the fake watch is marked or not, it is also marked. However, pay attention to observation, the markings on fake watches are relatively shallow, some are engraved crookedly, some are of the wrong size, or do not conform to the coding rules of the watch or the number of digits is too long.

7. Other details

For more professional-level watch identification, it is necessary to disassemble the appearance and movement parts for inspection. For example, the most inconspicuous places, such as the nails, sleeves, and strap joints of the watch strap. Because even the most sophisticated counterfeiters do not make these parts, these parts are obviously different from the original watch. The belt spring of the watch connects the case and the elastic bolt of the strap, and the belt spring of the fake watch is generally purchased, so it is different from the real watch.

The above are the 7 details that need to be paid attention to in the identification of watches. There may be other methods. It is recommended that you refer to more relevant information. We are a watch manufacturer, helping watch brands from all over the world to customize watches, welcome to contact us.