A short video talking about the differences between the latest fake A168WA watches from China compared to a genuine one. These fakes are now very very good and most people will no doubt have no idea!
the easiest way to find out is put under running water - fake way water resistant is terrible coz after a few times moistures starts to appear inside the dial resulting in cloudiness on the glass covering
I've just received two of these fake watches from eBay, probably the same place as your good self. Now what do I do. Thank you for the excellent video.🤗
Mine arrived yesterday off ebay and it passed on lots of the fake tests but ultimately it was fake. The lack of drilled lugs gave it away but as far fakes go it was quite good' i told the seller it was fake and bad feedback would be left' i got a full refund
@@RobbieKhan I gave my father one about 20 years ago, and that one says Made in Malaysia on it, and it's guaranteed genuine. I doubt they were ever made in Japan?
They make fakes of even £10 watches. It's just what some people in China do. If there is even a single dollar to be made they'll fake it as is evidenced by all these fakes from low to high.
Why not? The watch costs about $1 to manufacture if we're generous. Most of the custom tooling probably runs less than 10 grand, except for the tooling for the control IC which is either generic or was done decades ago, cost probably about 100 grand at most, but if you get enough volume, no problem - low end chip factories in China want to keep their production lines occupied, and are sometimes willing to give an insane discount to the enterprising locals, you just have to catch them at the right time. There's probably a bunch of watches, including smaller brands, homage brands etc which use the same controller, and it probably has some configurability, where you can fuse together some lines to enable or disable the features on there and either make it display the Casio logo or not, whether it's 3- or 4-button operation, modes available, etc, and the large setup cost for the IC is distributed effectively among all these countless customers, who might very well comprise the bulk of the watch market to be served by just a couple ICs. Financially it makes total sense. They can sell a lot of these replica watches in poorer countries, or to resellers at about $3-$4 a piece depending on quality they put into materials, components and finishing. By the time you got it, the price is inflated to $12, and since it's profitable to resellers and they keep buying, the manufacturers keep churning them out. There are a lot of countries where Casio isn't represented officially and where you'd have to spend double or multiple its MSRP to MAYBE get a genuine one, or maybe a fake! Most people across the world will be comfortable wearing a $10-$25 Casio, it's a brand with some reputation, but it doesn't encourage the person being mugged or murdered quite as much, which is a massive consideration for most people in poorer countries. The market for fake Rolex should really be much smaller if you look outside the first world bubble. A lot of people go on a public toilet and never return, earning a brick shaped hole in their skull instead. It can even look like an accident, if the structure is run down enough.
Update. Yeah they fixed iluminator light as well. So Yeah. I got mine yesterday. Fake. Difference is. Holes in case for pins and small letter U on bottom of the watch. Bracelet is very sharp on edges. Needed to soft it down on polishing wheel at work. But it Works i keep it. 🫣
I’ve had my a168 for 7 years and I’ve just realised that it doesn’t say where it was made. Neither on the case back nor on the clasp. Except from that it looks totally original and has been running perfectly. Does anyone have a casio without « made in… »?
@@RobbieKhan thanks for your answer. I did open the watch to change the battery (which was a Panasonic… I don’t think a fake would have a Panasonic, right?). There was a stamp on the inside of the case back and « no (0) jewels casio china » was written on the module. So I guess I have a very rare A168 without any « made in » on the outside 🤣
@@remlr92 Ah that's good to know! Quite cool how yours is unique in that regard too, maybe it's a small batch that was unmarked on the back when they changed over from Japan to China manufacture?
