Believe it or not, I own/run a Swatch boutique, and how it works is that the factory where the watches are made sends them to the Swatch warehouse/distributors and they ship them to us. The Moonswatch is not available everywhere because we pay much higher prices than any other watch in the inventory we receive. each watch costs around $10 to buy from the warehouse but the moonswatch is $30 each. and we are told by Swatch group explicitly not to sell our full inventory of the moonswatches to bring up hype and we need to send weekly spreadsheets of the moonswatches we sold that week. if we sell more than 20 in a week we get a warning from the Swatch group which hurts our store. THE MOONSWATCH IS MANUFACTURED FOR ONLY $20 IT IS A PURE SCAM. When I work at the desk I ALWAYS use my employee/owners discount on customers to give them 35% off.
I just sent it back.!! It's stupid thick, weighs so much it's like a wrist weight. The one I got was losing two seconds every minute. It's a terrible thing, when China of all places can't produce a mechanism, without it being as thick as a slice of bread. Save your money, a Timex or g shock is hand down better value.
The easiest way to see fake is looking at small white arrow on second hand in 12oclock position. On the real swatch the arrow iis on the Omega name but on the fake that same arrow is on the Swatch name under the Omega name in the 12oclock position.
Got the snj033. What a piece of crap. Nothing is lined up, and it malfunctioned out of the box. I thought it was a counterfeit but the seller told me he’s an authorized dealer. Way to go Seiko.
If you don’t know which one is the real one to begin with, you might mistaken the fake one to be the real one because of the glass, the heavier case, the metal, and the better strap 😂
Why didn’t you open the case on the real one to compare? Also the movement on the second hand mimics the movement on an automatic vs the real one is quartz movement. On mine, open the battery cover and you’ll find a decoy battery. The real battery is underneath, you’ll see it when you open the case back. I never would have bought it had I known.
My favorite watch is a Berny Titanium/Saphire dresser. I also have the orange faced compressor - totally fun watch to wear once I changed the band, the band was useless as the loops were too big to be functional.
just bought a fake one by accident. i own six beautiful real watches, but don’t want to go traipsing around mexico with even one. figured swatch were cheap shitty watches so bought the neptune online. didn’t realize swatch had this retail only bullshit marketing promo. anyway, my knock off of a (let’s face it) knock off arrives soon. gonna be cool having a piece of junk on my arm! and thanks for the vid. much appreciated.
So what's the current status of both watches in Jan of 2024? Have both lasted? Long term ownership would be interesting to know about (if you still even own either).
I found out that for five years, I was wearing a fake Submariner, but I paid for a real one. Apparently, the company ziarex makes those mega clones. I tried to find my dealer, but he is gone. I did research, and they have a whole section of watches. They
I have Ziarex replica watch, and when I see this video, I cant help but cringe. Theres no comparison to be made, its like a Formula 1 car competing against a tricycle.
I hate it when people buy replicas, thinking they are original, and end up losing their money. Thats why mega-clone sellers like Ziarex need to be stopped.
In the end, a new era of watches has come. Some illegal company from EU started making mega clones called ziarex. Basically, what they are doing is buying original parts from workers in Rolex who flag that part as damaged and sell them. But thats not the
I finally got a real moonswatch today. I bought a $100 copy about a year ago & I is so accurate, only the packaging and the sweep second hand give it away. I a way, I think the copy is better & probably has a better movement. It would be great if I could attach photos.
