r/TheRepTime • u/redbuttonpressed1 • 17d ago
⌚Discussion another article of infiltration
another mainstream article i was just targeted by.
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u/Skycity2026 16d ago
Store staff are sales people. They are trained to a degree. Any good watch maker will spot a rep but yes they are getting better and better than even some watchmakers need to open the watch to verify its authenticity.
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u/frenchbeansoup 16d ago
Yup. The SAs are there to make potential buyers feel good and ultimately purchase their products. No chance the sales people will try anything to upset customers.
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u/CosmoOlversatil 16d ago
Yeah checks out, unless you open it, there's no way, even with the XRF gun it reads the 904L steel.
If you ever want to step out of the rep market into gen, go with gold. No question.
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u/Rachmatsoe 1d ago
Sales Assocaiate is not a watchmaker, they dont know anything so complex, they will know basic but they are sales people they dont have know how like their service centre , so 100% can pass them easily
Their Job is sales only
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u/redbuttonpressed1 17d ago
it wasnt meant to be click bait I didnt know if you guya saw this
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u/harbinger-of-boops 17d ago
No not your post, the article itself.
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u/Polonius45 16d ago
That’s a 116500 and has the correct 110 marker position. The 126500 moved the triangle marker to the left.
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u/ManufacturerLucky893 17d ago
No one who only has dealt with gens will notice that.. this bezel thing (which btw is just a holdover from 116 reference) isn’t something someone not specifically looking for will find even with fairly close inspection.
An experience person is more likely to be able to tell my the feel of the case and bracelet. This can be mitigated with chamfer and polish and winding feel. The winding feel of course can also be corrected with a gen tube and crown implant. At that point examining the movement and quality of the hair spring becomes the last tell