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Thinking about buying this GMT. Buying from an online dealer. I asked to see the movement and open the watch up but apparently it’s a hsssle? Is this an unreasonable ask? Does this watch look ok?

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[–] Signal-Ad2602@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the chapter ring not engraved? Hard to tell from this angle, but if not it’s definitely fake

[–] Vxheous@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This model predates the engraved rehaut.

[–] aSmelly1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know when engraving started?

[–] Vxheous@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometime around 2006, but phased in across the line up over several years. So there's a bunch of watches from 2006-2009 that still won't have them.

[–] aSmelly1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Vxheous@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Rolex didn't see the change as big enough to warrant a reference number change, so you can have two watches with the same Rolex reference number and one will have an engraved rehaut and the other won't just due to year of manufacture.